Museum of Natural History · 22 November, 11:15
On agriculture’s effects on algae growth and shoreline contamination.
Ewen Chardronnet will present the More-Than-Planet programme (EU cooperation 2022-2025), its various projects and continuities. He will focus in particular on The Laboratory Planet #6 journal, dedicated to the Soil Assembly network and the ‘Planetary Peasants’ movement. He will dwell in particular on the work of urban planner Patrick Geddes and geographer Elisée Reclus and their work on watersheds, from the mountains to the city and the sea, before opening a discussion on hydrosoils, permacircularity and bioregional thinking, and the impact of polluting chemical and agricultural industries on coastal areas, resulting in algal blooms and disruption of biocoenoses. Finally, Ewen Chardronnet will bring the theories of Patrick Geddes and Elisée Reclus into the contemporary world by paying tribute to two major Asian influences who passed away this year, Japanese oyster farmer and poet Hatakeyama Shigeatsu, author of ‘The Forest lover of the Sea,’ and Chinese urban planer Kongjian Yu, father of the concept of Sponge Cities.
Ewen Chardronnet is an interdisciplinary artist-author who works as a film maker, member of multiple artist collectives, co-author of installations and performances, environmental activist, journalist and author, publication director, translator, cultural producer and exhibition curator.
He is currently editor-in-chief of the bilingual web magazine Makery.info, the occasional newspaper The Laboratory Planet, and co-initiator of Soil Assembly, an international network of living laboratories and communities working at the interface of soil conservation, agroecology, the arts, and citizen science.
His recent work includes co-editing The Laboratory Planet #6 Planetary Peasants (laboratoryplanet.org), the art and marine biology platform Roscosmoe.org, and co-directing the documentary Umi No Oya - Mother of the Sea on nori aquaculture in Japan (uminooya.movie).