Body Space Ecology: Recent Episodes
Beau Bree Rhee
Sometimes solo and sometimes in-conversation, Beau Bree Rhee discusses these issues in the context of art, design, the environment, and current events.
This episode is a celebration of a 55 year relationship between human & turtle. Oliver Kellhammer & I discuss intimacy, kinship and communication. How we feel incompleteness and/or completeness through relationships, both human relationships and interspecies. We also discuss caretaking, stewardship and joy. Feeling nested within the web of other lives, and the importance of dispersing our narcissistic idea of the self into interspecies selves. Oliver Kellhammer is an artist, permaculture expert, professor at Parsons School of Design in the Sustainable Systems program. We are friends and we teach together.
Did you know: Kelp, a type of algae, is one of the fastest replenishing organisms on earth that sequesters CO2 & filters water simultaneously? Join me (Beau Bree Rhee, artist and professor at Parsons School of Design) and dive into conversation with the amazing Alexandra Gosiewski, who is a designer, biomaterial pioneer and innovator, entrepreneur, co-founder of Algiknit, a biomaterials company creating fibers & textiles from algae. The company has been featured in Forbes, WWD, Design, I-D and is the recipient of a National Geographic Chasing Genius Award. We discuss the evolving role of the designer (as climate change becomes increasingly more extreme), what a regenerative material means, the future of material innovation, and what questions can guide creative practitioners towards sustainability, or perhaps, even a regenerative model of material revolution.
Did you know according to the UN, in 60 years we are projected to lose our topsoil on planet Earth? My solution: Universal Soil Reciprocity. Musings on soil. Intersectionality between our relationship to land, lawns, racism and white supremacy. Did you know air and soil are lovers? <3 B
Body-Space-Ecology is an overarching set of ideas that my work and research centers around. This week I respond to Anti-Asian hate crimes and thoughts on Asian Invisibility, White Supremacy, Colonialism and our relationship with land/food/soil and Fascism. Fun topics! Enjoy!