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In this episode of URBAN NATURE, Geographer and Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA Susanna Hecht and Gabriel Kozlowski discuss the Amazon region through the lenses of political ecology. Hecht offers a panorama of the major transformations the region went through over the last century from both a local and global perspective. In the process, she emphasizes the need to break with the idea of the Amazon as a frontier, as well as with the intellectual divide between nature and culture.  In the third episode, our guest is Susanna Hecht. Professor Hecht is a specialist on tropical development in Latin America, especially the Amazon Basin and Central America. Her research focuses on the political economies of development ranging from corporate frontiers of cattle and export commodity agriculture (like soy, and oil palm) to populist land occupation. She also studies their comparative environmental and social impacts. She also explores alternatives to destructive development and analyzes the forms of conservation in inhabited landscapes whether through indigenous technologies, non-timber extractive products, niche markets as well as new tenurial forms (such as extractive reserves), social movements and globalization, including the role of remittances and migratory networks in reshaping rural land uses. The impacts of emerging green markets and greenhouse gas offsets for smaller-scale farmers also form part of her research concerns. As one of the founders of the analytic approach known as Political Ecology, Dr Hecht has been engaged in understanding the theoretical and institutional dynamics that underpin deforestation and its alternatives.  “That ideology of frontier is the ideology of conquest, and it doesn't reflect reality. It's a discursive way of creating a boundary. So what it does is that the frontier basically says there's no real civilization. On the other side of this. We are the civilization, and we'll just come to the frontier. We'll change the way it integrates into the world through our systems.” —Susanna Hecht, Geographer, Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA  - A '74PODCAST Series, URBAN NATURE is hosted by Gabriel Kozlowski, Brazilian architect and curator working on urbanization from the perspective of political ecology. The Series presents guests from a diverse set of disciplines—including Anthropology, Biology, Philosophy, Political Science, Political Theory, Geography, Architecture, and the Arts, among others—that have been reflecting on the relationship between humans and nature. The episode was recorded on Zoom in July 2022. Produced by ISTANBUL'74.

In this episode of URBAN NATURE, Emanuele Coccia and Gabriel Kozlowski talk about the relationship of ecology with economy and politics, both in history and in the present. Coccia argues that we call natural environment is a form of artifact, artificially produced by living beings, and that the solution to our future is a spatial one, as a form of new modes of cohabitation between species. - Welcome to the first episode of URBAN NATURE, hosted by Gabriel Kozlowski, Brazilian architect and curator working on urbanization from the perspective of political ecology. The Series presents guests from a diverse set of disciplines—including Anthropology, Biology, Philosophy, Political Science, Political Theory, Geography, Architecture, the Arts, among others—that have been reflecting on the relationship between humans and nature. The first guest to inaugurate the series is Emanuele Coccia, a philosopher with interest spanning from ecology to arts and fashion. Coccia has a background in agricultural sciences. When he first got exposed to botany, chemistry and biology, the influence of which becomes evident in some of his philosophical works is he's the author of The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (2018) and Metamorphosis (2021). He is currently working on a book on the history of ecology. "We forget that ecology and economy are twin sisters. In the sense that they are sciences that share the same name—remember: ecology starts as "economy of nature"—, they share the same concepts, the same epistemological frameworks, and the same metaphors. (…) for instance, the metaphor of invisible hand that produces an order, a balance, was present from the start in both ecology and economy." -Emanuele Coccia - Episode recorded on Zoom in March 2022.  Produced by ISTANBUL'74. 

Bir Bakış Açısı Olarak Sürdürülebilirlik '74PODCAST serisinin dördüncü bölümünde, Sinem Çelik, Yuvam Dünya Derneği Kurucusu ve KAGİDER Yönetim Kurulu Üyesi Kıvılcım Pınar Kocabıyık ile iklim aktivizmi,  toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliği ve kadının fark yaratan gücü üzerine sohbet ediyor. 

In this episode, Cultural Strategist and Head of Planning (North America) at Futerra Emily Viola talks to Sinem Çelik about their work in the spheres of sustainability, brand building and creative strategy. Viola and Çelik discuss how purpose-driven brands can further social justice and equity, creating a massive opportunity to imagine and do better.  

In this twelfth and final episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, hosted by Dr. Shwetal A Patel, the London based artist Goshka Macuga talks about her journey from Warsaw to Goldsmiths College in London, the importance of certain political moments in her work, navigating the lockdown, her future plans in Greece, her dog’s new Instagram account and much much more. We would like to thank Shwetal and all the artists in this year long series. The crises, a compendium of ongoing challenges, is far from over and we hope some of these conversations over the last 12 months have helped to shed light on how this period has effected artists‘ practice and fostered new ways of thinking and doing.

In this episode, creative director Timothée Verrecchia and acclaimed photographer Brigitte Lacombe discuss their friendship, relentless curiosity for life, zest for travel, dedication to moments of solitude as well as their journey to find their roots.

İlk bölümde, Çevre Bilimci, good4trust.org ve change.org kurucusu Uygar Özesmi, Sinem Çelik ile sürdürülebilirlik, sosyal adalet, döngüsellik ve türetim kavramları hakkında konuşurken, iklim krizi karşısında nasıl harekete geçebileceğimizi paylaşıyor.

In this episode, sculptor, and conceptual artist Michael Sailstorfer, talks to Alison Hugill, Editor-in-Chief of Berlin Art Link, about how Covid-19 has affected his artistic productions. While discussing the changes in his practice, Sailstorfer shares the latest on his upcoming exhibitions, his views on architecture from a perspective of art, and why he made an industrial amount of cosmetics purchases for a new art piece.