The contemporary-art-commissioning agency IHME Helsinki is continuing its collaboration with Helsinki Open Waves on new episodes of the Art, Science, Ecology podcast. The members of the IHME Helsinki Advisory Board are hosting its second season, carrying on discussions started in 2021. The new episodes update ideas about ecocide, sustainable energy, and energy identity, and about the role of the arts in all this, topics that are even more urgent today than in 2021.
IHME Helsinki unites the worlds of art, science, and climate work. We promote the cultural change needed in the environmental crisis and motivate citizens to adapt to a life within planetary boundaries. Each year we produce a public artwork and a series of events with international artists and local partners to bring hope amid the environmental crises. Our work is made possible by support from the Saastamoinen Foundation, Kone Foundation, and Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation.
Ecocide as an international crime, part 2
In this second episode of the second season, recorded in February 2025, IHME Helsinki Advisory Board member, Professor at Nanyang Technological University and Founding Director of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Ute Meta Bauer will continue her conversation with artist and researcher Nabil Ahmed about ecocide as an international crime. Together with Olga Lucko, Ahmed runs studio INTERPRT, which uses design and spatial analysis to promote environmental justice and to make Ecocide an international crime. In this conversation Ute and Nabil address INTERPRT’S research on Ecocide and its concerns about cultural loss and accountability.
Credits
Host and guest: Ute Meta Bauer and Nabil Ahmed
Producers: Paula Toppila, Saara Moisio
Sound mixing: Bailey Polkinghorne
IHME jingle: Viljami Valdén
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