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A FESTIVAL FOR ECOLOGICAL CULTURE IN MALMÖ https://locallyalien.org/

The objective of this program is to look more deeply at nonhuman species (plants, fungi, animals, bacteria, and the rest) in Malmö and to better understand the market and state forces behind rapid extinction of species globally. Listening to, and looking to creatures around us, they can show us how these forces are at work here in the city.

In this post-industrial city we can find that the myth of “man and nature” is baked into its harbors, roads, and buildings. Through Locally Alien we will explore how domination, extraction, and exploitation have come to define our relationship to nonhuman residents of the city.

The program is composed of creative workshops, exhibitions, walks, and performances focused on the ecological culture of Malmö. Through the perspective of the city’s many different residents we might find new ways of relating to nonhuman ecology.

Mathilda Rosengren (Institute for Urban Research, Malmö university) is a visual anthropologist and human geographer with a particular interest in more-than-human entanglements, ecologies, and ethnographies of the urban Anthropocene. Her work straddles the intersection of critical urban and landscape studies, urban geography, and the environmental humanities and it is especially informed by more-than-human geographies and multispecies ethnographies.

 

Nicolas Keller is an urban environment and sustainability educator and facilitator working at the intersection of pedagogy, sustainability and space. He works with a wide range of methodologies such as collective mapping, co-design, participatory architecture and practical do-it-together workshops within a broad array of environmental and sustainability themes. 

Much of his work is based on Kolb's learning cycle, where hands-on learning and practical experimentation are the leading themes.