Program Details
This keynote address will propose that we cannot build truly ecological futures without acknowledging pervasive realities of rot and decay, and the possibilities for repair that still remain in the rubble of industrial modernity and its neglected natural foundations. Anthropologist Anand Pandian explores this theme between four places in the global North and South: Baltimore in the United States, Madurai in India, Accra in Ghana, and Barcelona in Spain. The work explores how artists and activists, naturalists, architects and many others in these places have come to imagine rot and repair in ecological terms, improvising new ways of making and unmaking things, and organizing for justice in the experience of both loss and renewal.
Location
Park Hall
Main Floor Sanctuary
307 Polk Street
Sauk City, WI 53583
- Keynote presentation
- Inside
Contributor
Anand Pandian (he/him)
https://anand.studio
Instagram: @alainthavan
Anand Pandian is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down, and A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times. Anand also serves as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration. He lives with his family in Baltimore, where he is currently working on a new book project on the global fight to build a zero waste future, anchored in stories from the United States, India, Ghana, and Spain.