material.city

This on-going seminar series organised at University College London together with Hannah Knox explores the city as a key site as a key site of environmental mediation.

The seminar poses the question: How might material culture studies contribute to an understanding of global environmental change? Taking the city as a site of encounter between geophysical changes rendered at a global scale, politics embodied in documents and standards, and the affective encounter with the intensive socio-materiality of urban life, this series aims to open up a set of methodological, analytical and political questions about the place of material culture studies in the shadow of the anthropocene …   

Visit material.city to learn more about the seminar and to register for the seminars.