In visual fiction and art, melting ice as the embodiment of the most existential challenges and threats of the twentieth-first century has become a defining symbol of our collective relationship with the environment.
What can (popular) art teach us about our imagined or unimaginable ecological past, present and future?
Forthcoming book – to be published in 2023 with Palgrave Macmillan
This book project brings together the perspectives of eminent and emerging scholars from fields as varied as science communication, art history, pop cultural studies, environmental studies, sciences studying ice and artists to explore the power of (popular) arts and aesthetics to communicate ice research and the urgency of environmental action. Examining the aesthetic strategies employed in images, (popular) visual fiction and narratives to convey meaning and awareness – and how they can be made fruitful for science communication – the project will generate new perspectives on how our collective environmental responsibility can be addressed and communicated across disciplines and divers audiences. In doing so, the volume will illuminate the cultural power of ice research and contribute to a better understanding of the cultural work that emerges from our ecological crisis.
