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Cartoon caption for Tom Toro’s famous climate cartoon
Cartoonist Tom Toro made a famous cartoon on the climate crisis with the caption: “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders”. Maybe you have seen this cartoon before. A few weeks ago, Tom Toro and The Climate Museum invited people to create…
The What If Garden
View this page in German “Take a walk. Be inspired. Wander, and let your imagination unfold in movement. Question what is – and what could be.” I love reading things printed on paper instead of scrolling through them on a screen. There is something extremely satisfying about holding a book, touching the surface of a…
Art at Koozie and being here right now
One of my favorite places in Rotterdam is Koozie… it’s cozy, of course. And it’s artsy.Every two months they are displaying a different local artist, from photography to paintings, diverse styles and stories. With quite the waiting line. I’m very happy that I’m going to have my abstract art shown there for two months between…
Our island is not just an island, it is a symbol for earth. ‘High Water Walk’ with art on the Noordereiland
The Noordereiland in Rotterdam is a very special place. It is beautiful with its little park and waterfront apartments. The view of the bridges and skyline on the other side makes you think you are in New York for a moment. And of course, because it is an island, there is water everywhere. It is…
New publication: A Close Reading of Climate-related Art
My chapter A Close Reading of Climate-related Art: Aesthetics and Creative Engagement with the Structural Causes of the Climate Crisis was published by Palgrave Macmillan in the book Confronting the Climate Crisis: Activism, Technology and Ecoaesthetics, edited by Daniel Binns and Rebecca Najdowski. About the book “This collection examines how activism, media, and creative practices…
(another) Interview about research comics
Research comics for science communication: Interview with Dr. Ulrike Hahn The following text is the accepted version of the published article in the journal Multimoadality & Society: Hahn, U., Augé, A., & Butler, R. (2025). Research comics for science communication: Interview with Dr. Ulrike Hahn. Multimodality & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795251345278 Abstract: Dr Ulrike Hahn is interviewed about her…
Interview about ResearchIN’ Comics
This post appeared on the ESHCC PhD Club site on October 16 2023. Phuong Hoan Le interviewed me about the research comics. PhD candidate Ulrike Hahn from ESHCC asked herself: “What if I myself make comics about my experience of PhD life?” She has since won the Synergy Award and is currently bringing her idea for research…
NWO Synergy Award
Very happy to have received the NWO Synergy Award 2022. Link to article
PERSPECTIVES
Different research fields can have both distinct and at times overlapping imaginaries of sustainability. For example, I have a background in Business, Sociology and Art. While Business, Sociology and Art deal with humanity and nature in certain ways, they can have some similar and some different concentrations and understandings of how humans and nature relate, the origins of ecological and…
Anthropocene, Climate Change & Sustainability,…
In the following paragraphs, you can find short definitions of some terms that we come across in relation to sustainability, including the term “sustainability” itself. Regularly updated to include more. A like Anthropocene C like Climate Change and Climate Justice S like Sustainability W like Wicked Problems
Why has there not been enough action towards sustainability? Reason #2 of many
This mini text series is called: Why has there not been enough action towards sustainability? And to keep it hopeful and solution-oriented: What promising, recent ideas and solutions are out there to make it happen? And as my PhD is about art & the climate: what is art’s role in all of that? This text will…
Why has there not been enough action towards sustainability? Reason #1 of many
This mini text series is called: Why has there not been enough action towards sustainability? And to keep it hopeful and solution-oriented: What promising, recent ideas and solutions are out there to make it happen? And what has art got to do with that? The text is based on scientific evidence, data from strong institutions…
Corona and the Artistic Imagination
This post also appeared on the Website of the Environmental Humanities Center. I wrote it while taking part in the seminar ‘Environmental Humanities’ at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, taught by staff of the Environmental Humanities Center. What kind of imaginaries of the virus are visual artists offering? Artists are sharing their artistic responses to this crisis in times when museums and…
Climate and Corona
In my PhD one of my central questions is “what role visual artists play in addressing climate change-related topics?” Therefore, I am reading a lot about the (general) communication around climate change. Now that we are faced with the Corona crisis, I feel I am seeing some interesting parallels and differences. Photo: Copyright Pixabay [Redacted…
Climate Change Art to the Rescue?
This post appeared on the ERMeCC PhD Club site. ERMeCC is the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture. Greta Thunberg’s school strikes and speeches for climate justice have put the topic of climate change into everyone’s newsfeeds for several months now. Almost every day we read, hear and see about climate change causes…
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