Worlding Ecologies

Worlding Ecologies
Art, Science and Activism Towards Climate Justice

How can art, science and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecological breakdown? How can these practices and ideas advance systemic change? Worlding Ecologies serves as an anthology of examples and wayward navigational tool, assembling eighteen authors exploring this question from their diverse backgrounds––as scientists, artists, philosophers, activists, theorists and curators––to rigorously approach urgent ecological challenges, including climate breakdown, pollution, biodiversity loss, environmental and social justice.

This book emphasizes the fundamental role of art as a vehicle and support structure for intersectional ecological thought. Whilst navigating imagination, worlding-possibility, science fact, social justice and climate action, the book prompts a fundamental role for art to create the blueprints for regenerative and sustainable more-than-human worlds. Structured alongside three sections––Science and Climate Truth; Activism and Climate Justice and Social Justice in Institutional Ecosystems––Worlding Ecologies moves from fieldwork-taking to patchwork-making, unifying the arts with science, politics and ecology into a field of synthetic thought and commitment.


The Worlding Ecologies typeface and design are both inspired by illustrations to visualize hybrid networks in Bruno Latour's We Have Never Been Modern (1991). These illustrations appear on pages 12 and 102 (see for instance ). Just as Latour's work served as inspiration for many authors in Worlding Ecologies, the book’s designer, Wibke Bramesfeld, also drew from the shapes that appear in his work to create the design and typeface, devised specifically for this publication.