Over the course of the season, different Somerset House resident organisations will be taking over the space and talking about their own environmental focused projects and inventions.
RESIDENTS' LIBRARY TAKEOVER | 13.00 - 13.30
Thu 18 Apr | IMPROVING AIR QUALITY TOGETHER
Northbank BID are running a drop in session to get handy tips for simple actions individuals and businesses can do to help improve local air quality.
Tue 23 Apr | PINATEX: A NEW MATERIAL FOR A NEW WORLD
Join Ananas Anam to find out how Piñatex is made – a material with a low environmental impact and high social responsibility.
Wed 24 Apr | (TIME)LESS IS MORE
Join luxury womenswear brand L. Saha to discover the Art of ‘Conscious Shopping’ & Why 'Trendy' is out of trend.
Thu 25 Apr | DESIGNING OUT AIR POLLUTION
Co-founders of The Future of Walking and Sora discuss how design can be used to raise awareness and physically tackle the problem of air pollution in our homes and cities.
Fri 26 Apr | FRUGAL PAC: THE COFFEE CUP MADE FROM RECYCLED PAPER
Join Commucan for an introduction to the Frugal Cup, the first easily recycled cup made from recycled paper, and why it differs from other non-reusable coffee cups.
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BOOKLIST
The following texts have been recommended by artists involved in the season and are available to browse in the Seamen’s Hall (South Wing) or to purchase at the Somerset House Shop (East Wing or online).
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The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race by Carl Anthony (2017)
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood (2013)
Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast by David Archer (2006)
The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age by David Biello (2016)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993)
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson (1989)
Silent Spring & Other Environmental Writings by Rachel Carson (2018)
Decolonizing Nature - Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology by T.J Demos (2016)
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich (2017)
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh (2016)
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Dona J. Haraway (2016)
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawkins (2017)
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour (2017)
The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi (2011)
The Madhouse Effect by Michael E. Mann T & Tom Toles (2018)
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World by Timothy Morton (2013)
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson (2018)
NW by Zadie Smith (2013)
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Tsing (2017)
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells (2019)
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson (2014)