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Smithsonian Institution Archives

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Views of Bandeiras (2022) by Unidigrazz with Hinu Digra (2020) by Tristany playing in the background in the exhibition Interferences (maat, 30/03–05/09/2022). Photo: Bruno Lopes, courtesy of Underdogs.

Unidigrazz with Tristany for Interferences

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Climate Emergency > Emergence

Climate Collective

maat Climate Collective:
T. J. Demos, Molemo Moiloa, Susan Schuppli, Paulo Tavares

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Illustration inspired by "Time Landscape in New York City", Alan Sonfist

The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the 20th and 21st Centuries

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David Medalla_Lament Sand Machine_1964_Exploding Galaxies_p54

David Medalla

Echoing the “Groundworks” timeline: 1963

Knowledge Box, Ken Isaacs

Ken Isaacs

Echoing the “Groundworks” timeline: 1962

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Mobile Architecture

Yona Friedman

Yona Friedman

Echoing the “Groundworks” timeline: 1958

Experiment of visualisation, Dotdotdot 2021

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Cover Whole Earth Catalog – Access to Tools Fall 1968

The Whole Earth, at a Distance

by Spencer Bailey and Andrew Zuckerman

Echoing the “Groundworks” timeline: 1968

Swimming with Rachel Carson by Stefanie Hessler

Swimming with Rachel Carson

by Stefanie Hessler

Echoing the “Groundworks” timeline: 1962

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by Susana Pomba, Susana Gaudêncio, Maribel Mendes Sobreira

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7.8Hz_Meditations

The Science Behind the Art

Carsten Höller

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Earth Bits, maat, 2021. Photo by Francisco Nogueira

Earth Bits Time/Space Aesthetics

An inspiration board

Laurie Spiegel - Music Mouse - 1986

The Earth Bits Data Sonification

A list of references

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Esforço Lúdico, by Alan Strani, 2022

Esforço Lúdico

by Alan Strani, screening in the context of "Leva leva", a project by FLEE

Carla Maldonado: Dystopia of a Jungle City, and the Human of Nature

Carla Maldonado: Dystopia of a Jungle City, and the Human of Nature

Echoing the Groundworks timeline and the Visual Natures mapping: 2019

Dotdotdot - Earth Bits - 2021

Earth Bits – Sensing the Planetary

Dotdotdot for maat

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The Rule of No Rules

Gene Bernofsky and Richard Kallweit Reflect on Drop City

Drop City

Echoing the Groundworks timeline and the Visual Natures mapping: 1965–1973

Deep Ecology 1950 – 1990

by Beatrice Leanza

Geodesic Dome, Deep Ecology

Visual Natures: The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the 20th and 21st Centuries

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Rejecting the Nature/Culture Dichotomy

An interview with Robert Horvitz, arts editor for the Whole Earth

Echoing the Groundworks timeline and the Visual Natures mapping: 1968

The Algarve beyond the fishing nets

Leva leva, photo Michel Giacometti

Leva-leva, a project by FLEE

Public Journal Entry [wa-wa-walking]

An essay in three parts by Susana Pomba

Exhibit case at the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, 1880s, USA. © Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image # SIA-MNH-3491.

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“a horizontal presence, as much as possible”

A conversation with Ana Balona de Oliveira

Smithsonian Institution Archives

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Questioning the Question

An essay by Maribel Mendes Sobreira

Smithsonian Institution Archives

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“A kind of mesh”

A conversation with Teresa Fradique

Smithsonian Institution Archives

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The 10 June Mural or the Passage to the Act

Text and photos by Ernesto de Sousa

Celebration of the 10th of June: painting on the collective mural of the Movimento Democrático dos Artistas Plásticos (Democratic Movement of Plastic Artists), in the People's Market in Belém, 1974. Photo: Ernesto de Sousa (1921–1988). Courtesy of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Divisão Arquivo Municipal/Fotográfico

The “work” of art as celebration

Climate Justice in the Time of Green New Colonialism

Interview with T. J. Demos

Climate Emergency > Emergence, 2021

By Mafalda Ruão for Umbigo Magazine

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Inside Drop City

From the BBC documentary “Towards Tomorrow: A Utopia”

“Towards Tomorrow: A Utopia”, BBC documentary, 1966

Echoing the “Groundworks” timeline: 1966

Filipa Cordeiro: Leva-vaga

Leva leva, artwork by Non-verbal Club.

“Leva leva”, a project by FLEE

Michel Giacometti

Alar da Rede

"Leva leva", a project by FLEE

Climate Emergency > Emergence, wrap-up

Climate Collective

Climate Collective, Wrap-up

A discussion of the necessary ongoing work ahead

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#ecologicalcrisis

Climate Emergency > Emergence, an Introduction

with T. J. Demos, Molemo Moiloa, Susan Schuppli and Paulo Tavares

Climate Collective

Bringing urgent focus to climate emergency

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