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A Worldview Route To Kinship

In their book Restoring the Kinship Worldview, Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 precepts for rebalancing life on Earth.

The Call of Time

As Black cinema reconnects us with African notions of time, it also allows us to consider a more balanced relationship with life, ancestrality and the environment.

Melting Eternity

The ice of the polar regions was once seen as a symbol of eternity and stasis. Today, as works by contemporary artists reveal, it has become a powerful metaphor for the changing climate.

Back From The Brink

A creative approach to conservation, based on research into the link between nature and wellbeing, delves into how much wild connections matter for us.

Resetting Global Food Systems

As global food systems and supply chains have been disrupted by Covid-19, Francis Mwanza, researcher and writer on African and local foods, and former head of office of the United Nations World...

The Field Beyond

When boundaries both divide and connect, is it possible to be on both sides of the line at the same time?

Confluences: On 'In the Air'

Welcome to Confluences, a weekly column on art, kinship and life.

Nuclear plants

Plants have an extraordinary ability to grow and adapt in even the most hostile environments.

Natural Health

Access to green space, with the physical and mental health benefits it brings, should be a human right.

Becoming pond

The pond is a microcosm of a bigger ecosystem, reminding us that the water that constitutes us inextricably connects us to the whole of the natural world.

living forest

The Kichwa people of Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, have always held a physical and spiritual connection with the jungle and its supreme beings, in order to maintain equilibrium...

Crossing Borders. From London to Gotland.

Paul Wu and his family left the UK in January 2019, moving from a suburban south London home to a farm on Sweden's largest island.

Everything is Blindingly in Bloom

How a move to the country wilderness inspired Shana Cleveland to write an album of supernatural love songs.

Reclaiming Place

Talia Woodin reflects on how their upbringing amidst an Oxford community’s reclamation of a green space, shaped the foundations of their creative practice and activism.

Between the Dog and the Wolf

The artists reflect on remnants of ancient ways of thinking, cautionary tales and the recognition of consequences.

Small Wonders

If we think of the cosmos, an image might form in our minds of a solitary genius gazing up to the infinity of space through a telescope, a scientist, Galileo perhaps. So too, we might see such...

Confluences: on Daiara Tukano

Welcome to Confluences, a column on art, kinship and life.

Make Me Good Soil

Writer Sophie Strand discusses the myth of the healthy self and why she advocates a view of mind and body as part of a broader web of relations with the world around us.

Shaped by Nature

“Environments… we shape them as they shape us…” - Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment.

Hikaru Dorodango

Naoto Kanesaka is the director of the Children’s Centre in Kobe City, in Japan’s Hyōgo Prefecture. When studying early years education at university he discovered dorodango, the process of...