Ethics and Biotechnology addresses the ethical dilemmas posed by the expanding field of biotechnology. The multi-disciplinary contributors are drawn from the fields of philosophy, agricultural economics, medicine, political theory, biology, embryology, social policy and theology.
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Environmental Policy by Roberts, Jane
Environmental Policy discusses the opportunities and constraints that environmental systems place upon the operation of human systems. It suggests environmental policy is a potential way to modify the operation of human systems so that they function within environmental constraints.
Making ‘People-Friendly’ Towns: Improving the Public Environment in Towns and Cities by Tibbalds, Francis
Francis Tibbalds provides a new philosophical approach to the problem of urban environments and town planning, suggesting that places as a whole matter much more than the individual components that make up the urban environment such as buildings, roads and parks.
Alan Sonfist: a natural history
RSA Arts and Ecology talks with Alan Sonfist about his pioneering work transforming landscapes to unearth their natural – and human – histories. Interview by John Grande.
Talking Trash and not wasting away
Curator Max Andrews on rubbish in art, and the significance of Tue Greenfort’s RSA Arts and Ecology commission at Frieze 2008.
Antarctic Scenarios; an essay by Tony White
When writer Tony White was commissioned to write the libretto for an opera about the Antarctic, he embarked on a remarkable voyage of discovery himself, meeting scientists who shared the latest thinking on climate change.
How Amazonia came to London this Christmas
Two years ago, RSA Arts and Ecology began supporting a multi-disciplinary collaboration with the Young Vic. Inspired by the work of the unionist and conservationist Chico Mendes, Amazônia began with a journey by the Young Vic’s artistic director to Brazil. It reaches a celebratory climax this winter with a magnificent children’s show at the Young Vic by Colin Teevan and Paul Heritage. Amazonia’s producer, Debra Hauer talks us through the extraordinary history of the project.
Olafur Eliasson: Light Conditions
“We cannot afford not to think about the environmental consequences of our individual actions,” says Olafur Eliasson, one of the most exciting artists working today. Elements like water and light are often at the heart of his practice. Here he reflects on the meaning of light and how for him it has become inextricably linked to the issue of climate change.
COP15 – The countdown to Copenhagen 09
COP15 – the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference is being billed as the last chance governments have to get their environment policy right. Over the next 12 months we will be running a series of features with people in politics, environment and the arts, as a countdown to Copenhagen 09. First, though, a brief word with the young design team from Denmark who created COP15’s new logo. Why does a logo matter when you’re trying to save the world?
Tue Greenfort at Frieze 2008
This year, RSA Arts & Ecology commissioned Danish artist Tue Greenfort to turn up at Frieze with an artwork that would say something about London’s attitude to what it throws away.