TBA21
Programme Lead and Senior Researcher
London, UK
I am 15 years into a 50 year research and practice agenda investigating 1) How transforming relations between nature, society and economy can restore the common conditions of life. 2) How already existing alternatives to the status quo can be beautifully and creatively shared to inspire sensible forms of scaling and transfer.
My work looks at amongst other things: critical questions of value and nature, the paradoxes of the green economy, the potential for reclaiming a common blue economy, strategies to shift mainstream biodiversity conservation to convivial conservation, the question of protein, feminist ecologies and multi-species livelihoods, digital tools and other knowledge techniques for nature restoration and generall how problematic orthodoxies in environmental policy get established and how to shift them towards new possibilities.
I am leading TBA21’s applied critical art and research programme for Convivial Marine Conservation working with community and conservation partners in Jamaica. I am a founding member of the Convivial Conservation Centre at the University of Wageningen, NL and Associate Senior Researcher at Lancaster University, UK.
I work with universities, arts organisations, cultural institutes, governments and NGOs— teaching, exhibiting, leading programmes and publishing in both academic and other formats. Though I'm generally an undisciplined practitioner I hold a PhD in Human Geography and Political Ecology from the University of London since 2017 and I am always interested in exploring experimental collaborations and conversations.
Offer
I already filled this in on the application form though I can augment these entries over the coming days. But I don't have that original form content saved unfortunately !
NEED
Right now, funding. We have a 10 year strategy and all the diverse partners, institutions and all projects in place. We need funding to start all the wheels turning.
Call-to-Action
My call to action to the Earth One community is to lift the lid on how mainstream institutional approaches to environment like ocean governance and wildlife conservation contain within them the same thinking which have created the problem. We need to slow down and stay critical— always looking at the longer origins of specific ideas and agendas. It is an emergency but we can not afford to lose more time propping up old ideas in a new dressing. Many of us are working with transversal issues that touch down in specific sector areas, but are really much bigger and interconnected. Another call to action is building powerful momentum through functional and meaningful modes of weaving together and amplification. With so many incredible initiatives out there there is the challenge to cross pollinate them vertically and horizontally in ways that can actually move big waves of change.
