How do we know, experience, and imagine soils in the Anthropocene? How can practices of soil care help us better understand and value the life beneath our feet? How do people across the planet recover unsustainable human-soil relationships?
The multidisciplinary project "Anthropogenic Soils" conceptualizes soils not as natural resources to be exploited, but as "anthropogenic", as lively and dynamic natural-cultural composition responsive to human recovery and healing.
We study how people have invented, practiced, and imagined ways of recuperating contaminated, toxic, and depleted soils in different parts of the globe – from South Asia to Norway and the Arctic. At the same time, our project asks how artistic and trans-media practices of scholars, artists and writers offer alternative modes of relating to soils, and for building possible futures of earthly survival.
Financing
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The Research Council of Norway. Joint lift, Large scale Interdisciplinary Researcher Project. Project no.: 325635.
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The University of Oslo.
Duration
01.08.2022 to 31.07.2028