activism

In this penetrating essay, artist and lecturer Mat Osmond, looks at how the disruption of activism challenges a fossil-fuelled ecocidal civilisaton and asks: what is the true role of education when generations are being betrayed by the sleepwalking culture that fosters them?

'Activist and writer Shrishtee Bajpai on working alongside Indigenous peoples from a pristine river in Ladakh to an urban forest in Mumbai. From our latest issue ARK

Mat Osmond reflects on 'The Magnitude of All Things;', Jennifer Abbott's searing and luminous film about of personal and planetary grief

Jessica Townsend shares her 'life raft' – an example of a contemplative community coming together amid tumultuous times to engage with activism and climate breakdown.

In the light of recent climate protests, Mat Osmond considers what it entails to hold ourselves accountable to a generation facing catastrophe.

Continuing our water-themed posts this month, James McGowan shows how getting one's feet wet can help bond a community together while restoring and re-inhabiting the local wild environment.

'The term 'eco-district' is a lie. In reality, it’s just real estate speculation and property development, dressed up by putting the word 'eco' in front' – Sylvie Decaux brings us a green-fingered resistance story from the heart of Paris, fighting to save green spaces from concrete.

Latest in our series on art and activism is set around a modern peace camp and ancient hermitage in Scotland’s Rosneath peninsula, home of the UK’s Trident nuclear submarines. Images from 'Trinity', a new book by Oliver Raymond Barker, with text by Nick Hunt.

In the wake of our new issue, 'Abyss', Joanna Guthrie charts a year's botanical voyage through the Norfolk waterlands threatened by a major roadbuilding project.

Artist and performer Boris Godot retells his experience as the leaf-clad entity: Lövaman, during a flooded 2019 Venice Biennale