Considering that surface temperatures in many places across the globe will rise significantly in average due to global warming, this little town in Australia's outback might become something of an enigma for our future cities. Coober Pedy is a mining village...
This is a 1977 Australian movie about a series of freak storms in Sidney. It was Peter Weir’s second major film after the success of “Picnic at Hanging Rock” two years earlier. Both films depict the arrival of supernatural or unexplainable occurrences in otherwise...
In the introduction to his book "Worlds in Shadow" from 2022 Australian Geographer Patrick Nunn writes: "The stories from Haida Gwaii and Aboriginal Australia neatly illustrate the three main sources of information from which we can today discover details about...
Australian Geographer Patrick Nunn opens a book of his with the following story told by a Chief of the Haida people of Haida Gwaii (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands)."Young recalled, his people lived in northwest Haida Gwaii in a large village across from Frederick...
In his book Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World (2019), Glenn Albrecht elaborated the term ‘solastalgia’. A portmanteau coinage, embracing ‘nostalgia’ (longing for the past) and composed of the Greek term algos (pain) and...
Like no other movie Roland Emmerich's blockbuster made extensive use of the iconology of cities, and most of all of the most iconic of them all: New York! In a very clever way, the advertisment company also adopted this strategy to various localities, asking the local...
"Asunder is an art project that responds to a growing interest in the application of AI to critical environmental challenges. [...] It's a fictional 'environmental manager' that proposes and simulates future alterations to the planet to keep it safely within planetary...