In this episode of Urban Nature, Sunita Narain explores the concept of “environmentalism of the poor”, contrasting it with the technocratic, middle-class environmentalism that often externalizes costs and creates new problems while trying to solve old ones. She emphasizes equity, local knowledge, and practical solutions that consider both human needs and environmental sustainability. Narain critiques conventional approaches to climate change, urban planning, and renewable energy, highlighting the resistance of professional orthodoxies to innovative ideas. She underscores that inclusive development is synonymous with sustainable development, and stresses the need for courage, imagination, and hope in addressing global environmental crises.
In this episode of Urban Nature, Sheila Jasanoff delves into the intricate relationship between science, society, and the natural world. She challenges the conventional view that science merely mirrors nature, arguing instead that scientific knowledge is shaped by human mediation, representation, and power dynamics. Through an exploration of how societal choices influence scientific practices and technological developments, Jasanoff urges a deeper examination of how science interacts not only with nature but also with the fabric of social order.
In this episode of Urban Nature, Steward Pickett explores the dynamic relationship between cities and natural ecosystems, challenging the notion that urban environments are separate from nature. He argues that viewing cities as part of natural systems reveals the deep interconnections between human and ecological processes, urging for a more holistic approach to urban planning that integrates these complexities.
In this episode of Urban Nature, Eduardo Góes Neves and Gabriel Kozlowski discuss how archaeology can be a means to understand change in human–natural systems over long timescales. Neves elaborates on the connection between ancient Amazonian societies with large-scale transformations of the natural environment. He emphasizes that what see as pristine forests are, most of the times, anthropic landscapes and, therefore, new attention should be given to the historical human factor in forest settings, which has the power to offer us alternatives models for the development of tropical societies.
In this episode of Urban Nature, Kate Soper and Gabriel Kozlowski discuss the multiple meanings of Nature alongside issues related to environmental activism, feminism and the need for a cultural and economic shift towards a post-growth society and an alternative concept of hedonism. She emphasizes the need for a new political imaginary that challenges current consumerist and growth-driven lifestyles, promoting a path towards a more socially and environmentally just future.
In this episode, Gabriel Kozlowski and Tania Li discuss the concept of land and its inscription, colonization by plantation corporations, modes of distribution beyond the “proper job,” and ethnographic approaches to the practice of politics.
Tania Li is a professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto. She's known for her studies concerning land, labor, capitalism, development, politics, and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia. Her work crosses multiple fields like geography, planning, law, and environmental studies, while bringing different actors together from activists to policymakers to make sense of transformations brought about by processes such as land reform, rural class formation, struggles over forests and their conservation, state-organized resettlement initiatives, and problems faced by people who are pushed off their land. Her books include the award-winning Lands End, Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier, Plantation Life, written with Pujo Semedi, The Will to Improve, Governmentality, Development and the Practices of Politics, the edited volume of Powers of Exclusion, and many more.
Gabriel Kozlowski is a Brazilian architect and curator. He works on questions pertaining to urbanization from the perspective of political ecology. In Urban Nature, Kozlowski talks to prominent thinkers who have been pushing the boundaries of how we understand the relationship between humans and the natural environment.
In this episode of Urban Nature, Jason W. Moore and Gabriel Kozlowski discuss the concepts of nature, capitalism, and the web of life from the perspective of social construction, relations of power, and Modernity’s dualism. Moore argues that one of the most fundamental problems of Western civilization, both intellectually and politically, is the splitting between society and nature; that this binary is a form of violence that generates conditions of inequality and oppression while maintaining the hegemonic structures intact.
In this episode of URBAN NATURE, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick Stuart Elden and Gabriel Kozlowski talk about the intersections between people, place, and power, in relation to concepts such as territory, understood as a political technology, and terrain, as the physical materiality of territory. The discussion touches on Lefebvre’s formulations on the rural, Foucault’s notion of milieu, and ideas around a Politics of the Earth.
“It's very easy to think that in the past the world was organized in a similar way it is today, except that the borders were different places and that there were different regimes within them.” – Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at University of Warwick
A '74PODCAST Series, URBAN NATURE is hosted by Gabriel Kozlowski, Brazilian architect and curator working on urbanization from the perspective of political ecology. The Series presents guests from a diverse set of disciplines—including Anthropology, Biology, Philosophy, Political Science, Political Theory, Geography, Architecture, and the Arts, among others—that have been reflecting on the relationship between humans and nature.
Produced by ISTANBUL'74.
Bu bölümde gitarist, kompozitör, doğaçlamacı, aranjör ve prodüktör Şevket Akıncı ve şarkıcı, şarkı yazarı, prodüktör Selin Baycan ile ISTANBUL’74’ün sunduğu “Rastlantısal Orman: Bir Okuma Odası” sergisi kapsamında düzenlenen doğaçlama performans üzerine ve canlı performansların günümüzde üretim alanı olarak nasıl ele alındığı hakkında konuşuyoruz.
In this episode of URBAN NATURE, Geographer and Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA Susanna Hecht and Gabriel Kozlowski discuss the Amazon region through the lenses of political ecology. Hecht offers a panorama of the major transformations the region went through over the last century from both a local and global perspective. In the process, she emphasizes the need to break with the idea of the Amazon as a frontier, as well as with the intellectual divide between nature and culture.
In the third episode, our guest is Susanna Hecht. Professor Hecht is a specialist on tropical development in Latin America, especially the Amazon Basin and Central America. Her research focuses on the political economies of development ranging from corporate frontiers of cattle and export commodity agriculture (like soy, and oil palm) to populist land occupation. She also studies their comparative environmental and social impacts. She also explores alternatives to destructive development and analyzes the forms of conservation in inhabited landscapes whether through indigenous technologies, non-timber extractive products, niche markets as well as new tenurial forms (such as extractive reserves), social movements and globalization, including the role of remittances and migratory networks in reshaping rural land uses. The impacts of emerging green markets and greenhouse gas offsets for smaller-scale farmers also form part of her research concerns.
As one of the founders of the analytic approach known as Political Ecology, Dr Hecht has been engaged in understanding the theoretical and institutional dynamics that underpin deforestation and its alternatives.
“That ideology of frontier is the ideology of conquest, and it doesn't reflect reality. It's a discursive way of creating a boundary. So what it does is that the frontier basically says there's no real civilization. On the other side of this. We are the civilization, and we'll just come to the frontier. We'll change the way it integrates into the world through our systems.” —Susanna Hecht, Geographer, Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA
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A '74PODCAST Series, URBAN NATURE is hosted by Gabriel Kozlowski, Brazilian architect and curator working on urbanization from the perspective of political ecology. The Series presents guests from a diverse set of disciplines—including Anthropology, Biology, Philosophy, Political Science, Political Theory, Geography, Architecture, and the Arts, among others—that have been reflecting on the relationship between humans and nature.
The episode was recorded on Zoom in July 2022.
Produced by ISTANBUL'74.
In this episode of URBAN NATURE, cultural and critical theorist Verena Conley and Gabriel Kozlowski talk about ecology in the context of culture and philosophy while discussing its connection to care ethics, feminism, and materialism. Conley argues that our survival depends on realizing a more direct connection with animals, plants and other life forms that share the same ecosystems with us.
On the second episode, our guest is Verena Andermatt Conley. Verena is a cultural and critical theorist who has been teaching at Harvard since 1996 in Comparative Literature, and Romance Languages and Literature. She writes on current dilemmas in the natural and urban environments and her publications include among many Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Theory (1997), Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory (2012) and Rethinking Technologies (1993-1997). She also has just finished On Care: A Plea for Etho-Ecology (2022). Verena is an affiliate of the Harvard University Committee for the Environment and an associate of the Harvard Urban Mellon Initiative.
"We have to do some rethinking of matter not as dead as it was assumed to be, but matter that is everywhere. Explore the liveliness of matter and see how the implications are, how the relationship is between humans and nature, animal, plants and the environment. Explore a way of a new alliance and rethink these boundaries." -Verena Conley
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A '74PODCAST Series, URBAN NATURE is hosted by Gabriel Kozlowski, Brazilian architect and curator working on urbanization from the perspective of political ecology. The Series presents guests from a diverse set of disciplines—including Anthropology, Biology, Philosophy, Political Science, Political Theory, Geography, Architecture, the Arts, among others—that have been reflecting on the relationship between humans and nature.
Episode recorded on Zoom in April 2022.
Produced by ISTANBUL'74.
In this episode of URBAN NATURE, Emanuele Coccia and Gabriel Kozlowski talk about the relationship of ecology with economy and politics, both in history and in the present. Coccia argues that we call natural environment is a form of artifact, artificially produced by living beings, and that the solution to our future is a spatial one, as a form of new modes of cohabitation between species.
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Welcome to the first episode of URBAN NATURE, hosted by Gabriel Kozlowski, Brazilian architect and curator working on urbanization from the perspective of political ecology. The Series presents guests from a diverse set of disciplines—including Anthropology, Biology, Philosophy, Political Science, Political Theory, Geography, Architecture, the Arts, among others—that have been reflecting on the relationship between humans and nature.
The first guest to inaugurate the series is Emanuele Coccia, a philosopher with interest spanning from ecology to arts and fashion. Coccia has a background in agricultural sciences. When he first got exposed to botany, chemistry and biology, the influence of which becomes evident in some of his philosophical works is he's the author of The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (2018) and Metamorphosis (2021). He is currently working on a book on the history of ecology.
"We forget that ecology and economy are twin sisters. In the sense that they are sciences that share the same name—remember: ecology starts as "economy of nature"—, they share the same concepts, the same epistemological frameworks, and the same metaphors. (…) for instance, the metaphor of invisible hand that produces an order, a balance, was present from the start in both ecology and economy." -Emanuele Coccia
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Episode recorded on Zoom in March 2022.
Produced by ISTANBUL'74.
‘74PODCAST’in yeni bölümünde, 16 Mart’ta MUBI’de dünya prömiyerini yapan, Alphan Eşeli imzalı drama film MÜJDE’yi ele alıyoruz. Film eleştirmeni, yazar ve FIPRESCI Genel Sekreter Yardımcısı Alin Taşçıyan moderatörlüğünde, yönetmen Alphan Eşeli ve filmin başrolü Lale Mansur katılımıyla gerçekleşen podcast bölümü tüm mecralarda yayında.
Bir Bakış Açısı Olarak Sürdürülebilirlik '74PODCAST serisinin dördüncü bölümünde, Sinem Çelik, Yuvam Dünya Derneği Kurucusu ve KAGİDER Yönetim Kurulu Üyesi Kıvılcım Pınar Kocabıyık ile iklim aktivizmi, toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliği ve kadının fark yaratan gücü üzerine sohbet ediyor.
In this episode, Cultural and Artistic Events Coordinator at Koç University, the Artistic Programmer of Sevgi Gönül Kültür Merkezi, sound artist Oğuz Öner talks to the architect and curator Gabriel Kozlowski about his relationship with music and sounds. He discusses various definitions of noise and silence, his first solo single Silence Wide, which he defines as “a poetic journey and a blast of emotions” as well as his upcoming projects. *This episode has been recorded in late May 2021.
In this episode, Cultural Strategist and Head of Planning (North America) at Futerra Emily Viola talks to Sinem Çelik about their work in the spheres of sustainability, brand building and creative strategy. Viola and Çelik discuss how purpose-driven brands can further social justice and equity, creating a massive opportunity to imagine and do better.
Bu bölümde, yazar, küratör, eğitmen Begüm Başoğlu, Sinem Çelik ile sade yaşamak yaklaşımından, değişen sürdürülebilirlik tanımlarından ve Ege Erim ile kaleme aldığı yeni kitabı Müşterek Düşünceler'den bahsediyor.
In this twelfth and final episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, hosted by Dr. Shwetal A Patel, the London based artist Goshka Macuga talks about her journey from Warsaw to Goldsmiths College in London, the importance of certain political moments in her work, navigating the lockdown, her future plans in Greece, her dog’s new Instagram account and much much more.
We would like to thank Shwetal and all the artists in this year long series. The crises, a compendium of ongoing challenges, is far from over and we hope some of these conversations over the last 12 months have helped to shed light on how this period has effected artists‘ practice and fostered new ways of thinking and doing.
Bu bölümde Sanatçı ve Araştırmacı-Yazar Belkıs Balpınar, Prof. Dr. Marcus Graf ile ISTANBUL’74 tarafından Maçakızı iş birliğiyle gerçekleştirilen açık hava retrospektif sergisinin oluşum süreci, çalışmalarının kavramsal açıdan nasıl ele alındığı ve günümüze kadar olan evrilişi hakkında konuşuyor.
In this episode, creative director Timothée Verrecchia and acclaimed photographer Brigitte Lacombe discuss their friendship, relentless curiosity for life, zest for travel, dedication to moments of solitude as well as their journey to find their roots.