Papers, Books, Podcasts, and Other Readings

Leonardo Journal

A peer-reviewed, cross-disciplinary journal featuring work on the use of science and technology in the arts, as well as the application and influence of the arts and humanities on science and technology.

Listening With (Victoria):

Developed with Indigenous knowledge holders, artists, and community members. Through storytelling, sound walks, deep listening practices, site-specific installations, field recordings, and conversations about ancestry and place, participants were invited to develop new relationships with land, water, stories, and one another. The project was framed not as production, but as a process of inquiry and paradigm shift.

Bringing art and science together to address climate change:

A research paper on the purpose and process of Art x Climate, the first gallery of visual art to be included in the USA’s National Climate Assessment.

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism:

Multi-generational Indigenous perspectives on decolonization, gendered and sexualized violence, storytelling and narrative, land-based presence, Black and Indigenous relationalities, and more.

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings by Mary Siisip Geniusz:

Geniusz shares the ways in which she was taught about plants, and her knowledge on their history, uses, and importance in Anishinaabe culture.

Sing Like Fish by science journalist Amorina Kingdon:

On the use of sound by underwater animals, urging humans to address how we invade these soundscapes that may be invisible to us.

Foggy pursuit of ethical response-ability: art and science of collecting water from fog, a PhD thesis by Anna Emilia Rewakowicz:

Research exploring an alternative method of collecting water from fog to combat water scarcity in arid regions, which arose from imaginative solutions developed through art and science collaborations.

Is a River Alive? A Journey with Water by Robert Macfarlane:

Three stories on rivers in Ecuador, India, and Canada exploring the idea that rivers should be recognized as living beings.

How a 150-year-old map may help unlock a climate solution, on CBC’s What on Earth? Podcast

Kelp restoration on the coast of British Columbia is being done using old seafarers maps that indicated dangerous kelp patches to inform where kelp patches should be re-grown.