ECO Solidarity is an initiative and movement developed with the Polish Cultural Institute New York and Tomek Rygalik of Studio Rygalik in partnership with WantedDesign and presented with eight European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) organizations that address the urgency for more human-centered design in response to humanitarian and public health crises by focusing on ecology, the climate emergency, public health,…
In late imperial Russia, rising demand for energy and widespread concerns about the depletion of forests caused an interest in peat as an industrial fuel. In the booming industrial districts of the Vladimir and Moscow provinces in particular, factory owners adopted peat fuel to fire furnaces and operate engines, while railroad operators made experiments to move trains with the help…
A conversation with Etienne Balibar, Adam Tooze, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Emmanuelle Saada, moderated by Bernard Harcourt To sign up for this virtual transatlantic event, RSVP here. The Covid-19 pandemic and public health crisis; economic collapse; waves of anti-racist protests; threats to democracy and rising authoritarianism in the U.S. and elsewhere, all against a backdrop of an ever-worsening climate crisis... how…