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The Beauty of Oil - Interview by Daniel Minisini miniGeology
Beauty of Oil is a German research collective dedicated to understanding the complexities and paradoxes of petromodernity.
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EXPLORE…PERHAPS FORGOTTEN, WORDS TO RETURN TO
We started thinking about the words that have perhaps been most neglected in recent times, and the need to return to them, and with resolve…in all their forms and resonances
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Arts & Culture·31 March 2021
Japan’s cherry blossom viewing parties – the history of chasing the fleeting beauty of sakura
Lecturer in Japanese Studies (Japanese and Comparative Literature), University of Sheffield
ON Network · 4 min read
Sustainability·4 February 2022
Why International Geneva’s ‘human dimension’ bodes well for environmental peacebuilding
An artwork by Lynn Finnegan, one of nine artists and illustrators from around the world whose work accompanies the themes of the White Paper and Compendium, helping bring to life the opportunities, challenges, pain and beauty of…
ON Network · 4 min read
Climate·26 April 2026
A Year in a Field : Earth Day Featured Story
“A silent cry about the climate crisis and a penetrating meditation on what life is. A film full of ideas that resonate deeply, told as a penetrating dream that shakes you awake.“
ON Network · 8 min read
Climate·15 May 2023
We are faced with a climate emergency. Can art help?
We have a climate emergency. Regardless of where one stands on this issue – this is our ‘inconvenient truth’ . Yet the power to reach people has never been greater. Close to 3.2 billion people today are online, about 2 billion are from…
ON Network · 11 min read
Climate·12 November 2021
Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days
Fri 12 Nov 2021 10.00 GMT Last modified on Sat 13 Nov 2021 05.20 GMT
ON Network · 6 min read
Dwelling·24 September 2019
Sustainable Architecture - The Living Bridges of Meghalaya
Meghalaya in northeastern India has been regularly named the rainiest and wettest place on earth by the Guinness book of records.
ON Network · 3 min read
Climate·16 November 2025
Petricor - Un Nuevo Internacionalismo
Earth, hessian, oil painting, poetry, voices of reason, ambient sound, scent and Arcadian landscape featuring an imposing structure, abstracted, broken and forgotten, based on the Berlin TV Tower, a symbol of unification.
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·17 August 2025
Jimmy Nelson: Before They Part II - Camera Work, Berlin
BASHA MIAO VILLAGE, CONGJIANG, QIANDONGNAN, GUIZHOU, CHINA, 2016
ON Network · 8 min read
Arts & Culture·6 November 2023
The fight for quiet in a world full of noise pollution
It took a thunderstorm for Gordon Hempton to truly appreciate quiet. After a visit home to Seattle, Washington in 1980, the then-27-year-old graduate student found himself tiring of the 3,000km+ slog back to his university in Madison,…
ON Network · 19 min read
Arts & Culture·27 June 2023
Pope Hosts Artists in Sistine Chapel, Even Some Who Attracted Controversy
A photo released by the Vatican on Friday showed Pope Francis speaking to artists at a gathering that he hosted in the Sistine Chapel. Credit...Vatican Media, via Reuters
ON Network · 5 min read
Arts & Culture·31 July 2022
Ghanaian Curator Nana Oforiatta Ayim on Why the Future of the Museum Must Exist Beyond Art’s Traditional Boundaries
A dozen years ago, Nana Oforiatta Ayim worked in the Africa department at the British Museum. Since then, the Ghanaian art historian, filmmaker, and writer has been deconstructing the very idea of it—or rather, the very colonial idea of a…
ON Network · 15 min read
Arts & Culture·8 March 2021
Wise women: 6 ancient female philosophers you should know about
Michel Corneille the Younger: Aspasia surrounded by Greek philosophers. Wikimedia Commons
ON Network · 5 min read
Arts & Culture·24 January 2021
With powerful poem, Amanda Gorman sets the tone for Biden’s presidency
Poet Amanda Gorman reads The Hill We Climb during Joseph Biden's Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, DC Photo: AP/Patrick Semansky, Pool
ON Network · 5 min read
New Museum·5 November 2020
New York Times - The Museum Is the Refugee’s Home
Liu Xiaodong, in his painting “Refugees 4” (2015), depicts Syrian refugees at the port of Lesbos gathered together in a moment of rest. A show at the Phillips Collection features 75 artists on migration and displacement. Credit... Liu…
11 min read
Charities·22 August 2020
Testimonies from Refugee Support Devon: Waala’s story
Refugee Support Devon (RSD) asked members of the refugee community if they would be willing to tell their stories. In 2018, Walaa wrote her story below in English and RSD have not changed any of it, except to remove the names of her…
ON Network · 7 min read
Climate·10 June 2026
Voices for Today Feature: Palestine Advocate Vanessa Redgrave
We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling…
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·21 April 2026
The Wonderful Culture of Iranian Cinema
This week, I found this post on Instagram and it rang bells - ON Ed
ON Network · 2 min read
Arts & Culture·17 February 2026
Educating for the Future We Want
ON Ed - while this essay is from 2021, it still feels relevant in 2026
THE GREAT TRANSITION INITIATIVE · 15 min read
Arts & Culture·15 February 2026
The Phoenix is a sustainable neighbourhood on a former industrial site
The Phoenix is the redevelopment of a 7.9 hectare brownfield site within the South Downs National Park, brought forward by Human Nature , a campaigning development company, working with some of the UK’s leading architects, designers and…
PLEASE VISIT HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY ON THE PHOENIX INTERACTIVE WEBSITE · 1 min read
Arts & Culture·5 December 2025
Lily Koppel: Paper-and-Pen Diaries Are Forever
I love diaries — physical, bound paper books filled with handwriting — more and more as the digital has taken over so much of our lives. I have an existential terror of losing my human coherence, my voice, to the chatbot. Human thought,…
NEW YORK TIMES · 6 min read
New Museum·16 October 2025
Featured Archive Story: Ubuntu - I am because we are
An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket of fruit near a tree and told the children whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran…
2 min read
Dwelling·25 September 2025
UNGA 80 Side Event Explores Road to Intergovernmental Process Beyond GDP
The event brought together members of the High-Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP, appointed by the UN Secretary-General in May 2025, and other leading voices in the ‘Beyond GDP’ space.
SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB · 5 min read
Arts & Culture·18 July 2025
The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians
With war ravaging their homeland, the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians has been scattered across the globe. But five years since the violence erupted, the group are reuniting for a cathartic tour – and opening Glastonbury
ON Network · 8 min read
Climate·18 June 2025
Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message
I have been saying this a lot recently: “At last!” At last, a mainstream film bluntly revealing the plunder of our seas. At last, a proposed ban on bottom trawling in so-called “ marine protected areas ” (MPAs). At last, some solid…
THE GUARDIAN · 5 min read
Arts & Culture·9 June 2025
Featured Story: We have established the lesson for the entire world.
Sabine Hornig, La Guardia Vistas (2020). Commissioned by LaGuardia Gateway Partners in partnership with Public Art Fund for LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B. Photo: Nicholas Knight, courtesy of the artist; LaGuardia Gateway Partners; Public…
ON Network · 1 min read
United Nations·21 October 2024
The latest UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia; here’s what’s at stake
Unsplash/James Wainscoat ; Close-up of a hummingbird near flower.
UN News - Global perspective Human stories · 5 min read
Arts & Culture·15 October 2024
Louisiana Museum: Ocean
The exhibition is generously supported by Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond and Det Obelske Familiefond. It is endorsed by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
LOUISIANA MUSEUM · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·15 August 2024
Venice Biennale - Atlas: Harmony in Diversity
The character “集” depicts three birds perched on a single tree. As a verb, it encompasses meanings including to gather, converge, collect, or assemble. As a noun, “集” can be translated as “Atlas” — a collection of art, cultural relics, or…
ON Network · 1 min read
Arts & Culture·8 November 2023
Olive Network Online Exhibition
The Olive Network Exhibition was scheduled to take place at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens this summer, but was postponed due to Covid-19 and is now live online to coincide with the launch of the Olive Network. Within the website you will…
ON Network · 4 min read
New Museum·6 November 2023
To Survive the Challenges Ahead, Cultural Institutions Will Need to Redefine the Value of Art.
The director of A Blade of Grass explores how the lockdown era might present an opportunity to change the way the art ecosystem functions.
7 min read
Charities·19 November 2022
ShelterBox: What would you take?
by Nicky Stephens, ShelterBox Digital Marketing & Innovation Manager 16/11/2022
ON Network · 4 min read
Arts & Culture·11 October 2022
‘It’s Time to Wake Up’: Artist Cecilia Vicuña on Her Monumental Soft Sculptures and Their Hard Message About Planetary Survival
Cecilia Vicuna, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu Installation View at Tate Modern 2022. Photo © Tate Photography (Sonal Bakrania)
ON Network · 6 min read
Climate·11 July 2022
Trading in the currency of hope as we work to create a just and regenerative future
At what is a critical moment for the sustainability movement, Forum for the Future’s flagship Future of Sustainability campaign shed light on what the past can teach us about our future. These insights formed the basis of our first US…
ON Network · 6 min read
Arts & Culture·20 March 2021
‘The Fastest Way to Make a Populist Into a Humanist Is to Listen’
Olafur Eliasson beside his art installation titled Moss Wall at Tate Modern in London on July 9, 2019. Photo Judith Burrows/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
ON Network · 8 min read
Climate·15 January 2021
The Radio Station at the Heart of a Fishing Community
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ON Network · 11 min read
Arts & Culture·23 November 2020
Marcus Rashford’s book club couldn’t come at a better time – children’s reading is at a 15-year low
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold - Associate Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures, UCL
ON Network · 4 min read
Climate·18 September 2020
Bolster fragile world to emerge stronger, UN chief urges, marking Peace Day
UN Photo/Mark Garten - UN Secretary-General António Guterres rings the peace bell at UN Headquarters in New York.
ON Network · 3 min read
Health·10 September 2020
The next generation of tech leaders offer to bring the future to the table
Published on 08 September 2020, 18:00. Updated on 10 September 2020, 06:13.
Joe Thorp · 4 min read
Climate·29 June 2020
The Climate Coalition
We are the UK’s largest group of people dedicated to action against climate change. Along with our sister organisations Stop Climate Chaos Cymru and Stop Climate Chaos Scotland , we are a group of over 140 organisations — including the…
ON Network · 2 min read
Dwelling·26 May 2020
Will Covid-19 show us how to design better cities?
Grey’s monument in Newcastle. The street will now be given over to cyclists and pedestrians in an attempt to keep car use low once restrictions are lifted. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
ON Network · 9 min read
Arts & Culture·8 April 2020
Among the Trees: A virtual tour | Hayward Gallery
Ever wondered what it would be like to see a 30-metre-high tree inside Hayward Gallery? Our new exhibition Among the Trees brings together artworks by 38 artists who explore our relationship with trees and forests. Here are five things to…
ON Network · 3 min read
Education·6 April 2020
'The impossible has already happened': what coronavirus can teach us about hope
In the midst of fear and isolation, we are learning that profound, positive change is possible. By Rebecca Solnit Tue 7 Apr 2020 06.00 BST D isasters begin suddenly and never really end. The future will not, in crucial ways, be anything like the past, even the very recent past of a month or two ago.
1 min read
Dwelling·5 March 2020
Mother Pavilion / Studio Morison
MOTHER... is an artwork by artists Heather and Ivan Morison of Studio Morison that engages with the connections between the natural world and our mental health. The work is inspired by writer Richard Mabey’s book ‘Nature Cure’, in which he…
ON Network · 1 min read
Humanitarian·18 February 2020
The librarian of Moria - and other tales of hope from the notorious refugee camp
Green shoots ... Sima Mohammedi, 26, a refugee volunteer from Afghanistan, in a garden at the One Happy Family community centre near Moria. Photograph: Byron Smith/Getty Images
ON Network · 18 min read
Education·18 December 2019
‘We're bonded like sisters': the choir giving trafficked women a voice
Adwoa Dickson (project director), Shamuna Rahman (choir support), Racheal Olawaniotogun, (choir member) Francesca Ojefua (choir support) and daughter, Anna Samant (facilitator) A choral singing project is harnessing the power of music to help heal the mental and emotional scars of women trafficked i
1 min read
Dwelling·9 October 2019
Riba Stirling Prize: Norwich council estate wins architecture award
An eco-friendly council estate in Norwich has scooped this year's prestigious Riba Stirling Prize for architecture.
ON Network · 2 min read
Arts & Culture·16 August 2019
“It is about making people feel, think and act.” The role of the photograph in charity appeals.
I guess this is a difficult question to answer. When do you actually become a photographer? Is it when you pick up your first camera? Is it when you get your first commission or publication? I started taking pictures more than 20 years ago…
ON Network · 7 min read
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Feed · 17/12/2024
Best films of 2024 in the UK: No 4 – All We Imagine As Light
Payal Kapadia’s remarkable feature debut charts the daily lives of three women in Mumbai in a beautifully shot ode to the city and to the power of human connections
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Feed · 04/04/2024
This No AC Tiny Home Uses Nature To Regulate Temperatures & For Optimal Cooling - Yanko Design
Designed by Colombian architectural firm PAE, this beautiful open-air tiny house is called the Casa Caoba, and it is tucked away into the lush hillside of Anapoima, Colombia. The home is located in a pre-existing mango grove, and it beautifully merges with and accepts the lush natural setting. Featuring a minimalist design ethos, and perched
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Feed · 27/09/2023
Petromelancholia
curated by Alexander Klose (research group Beauty of Oil)Petromelancholia examines the enormous consequences of a life beyond oil, the magnitude of which many do not yet realize. Unlike the many exhibitions that sing about doom scenarios or
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Feed · 14/12/2022
‘Portable wind-farm’ with a folding design lets you harness renewable wind energy anywhere you go - Yanko Design
https://vimeo.com/747494135 Because solar panels are yesterday’s news... The beauty of wind is that it isn’t really tied to the time of day the way the sun is. You could easily generate wind energy at night as you could in the daytime. The only barrier so far has been the fact that setting up your own
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Feed · 24/09/2022
This concentric school library in Thailand was constructed using bamboo and adobe bricks - Yanko Design
The Panyaden International School in Chiang Mai, Thailand had a beautiful bamboo sports hall added to its structure back in 2017. The Chiangmai Life Architects were responsible for this sustainable and thoughtful addition, and they’re back at it again! This time, they’ve designed an impressive new library for the school. The Panyaden Secondary School Library features
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Feed · 26/10/2021
New European Bauhaus : beautiful, sustainable, together.
Let’s build together the beautiful, sustainable, inclusive living spaces of the future.
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Feed · 03/04/2021
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Feed · 31/03/2021
Japan’s cherry blossom viewing parties – the history of chasing the fleeting beauty of sakura
Blue Sky imagery/Shutterstock Author Nozomi Uematsu Lecturer in Japanese Studies..
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Feed · 20/03/2021
25 Years of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Watch truly great cinema. Wherever you are. With no ads. Ever. From new directors to award-winners. Beautiful, interesting, incredible movies — a new film every single day. Stream Now. Download to watch Offline. Start your free 7 day trial now.
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Feed · 02/02/2021
Architecture at Sea: Floating Pavilions and the Beauty of Temporary Art
Written by Eric Baldwin Architecture is defined by its permanence. While the discipline`s..
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