Fondazione Sozzani hosts Hans Ulrich Obrist who presents Ever Gaia.
Over the course of his career, James Lovelock set the terms by which we’ve come to understand life – biologically, societally, poetically – in the twenty-first century. He helped NASA complete missions to Mars and the moon; he invented devices that revealed the presence of harmful chemicals in the Earth’s atmosphere, inspiring Rachel Carson to write Silent Spring; and he formulated the Gaia hypothesis, the deceptively simple idea that our planet could be viewed as a single self-regulating organism: everything entangled, everything acting upon everything else.
In September 2015, Hans Ulrich Obrist traveled to Dorset to visit Lovelock at his seaside cottage, where they spent nine hours discussing garden cities, frozen hamsters, rising temperatures, tiny widgets, the Space Age, the birth of modern science, the agonies of institutions, and the future of humanity. Ever Gaia presents this conversation as a celebration of Lovelock, who died this past year at 103, alongside contributions from two future pioneers of Gaia: Daisy Hildyard and Precious Okoyomon. As another of Lovelock’s heirs, Tim Lenton, writes in his afterword, this encounter was pivotal in Lovelock’s late intellectual life and, at the start of 2023, provides a guide – by way of Lovelock’s Gaian approach – to address today’s problems.
book presentation
Sunday April 16th, at 4PM
with Hans Ulrich Obrist, author
Fondazione Sozzani hosts Hans Ulrich Obrist who presents Ever Gaia.
Over the course of his career, James Lovelock set the terms by which we’ve come to understand life – biologically, societally, poetically – in the twenty-first century. He helped NASA complete missions to Mars and the moon; he invented devices that revealed the presence of harmful chemicals in the Earth’s atmosphere, inspiring Rachel Carson to write Silent Spring; and he formulated the Gaia hypothesis, the deceptively simple idea that our planet could be viewed as a single self-regulating organism: everything entangled, everything acting upon everything else.
In September 2015, Hans Ulrich Obrist traveled to Dorset to visit Lovelock at his seaside cottage, where they spent nine hours discussing garden cities, frozen hamsters, rising temperatures, tiny widgets, the Space Age, the birth of modern science, the agonies of institutions, and the future of humanity. Ever Gaia presents this conversation as a celebration of Lovelock, who died this past year at 103, alongside contributions from two future pioneers of Gaia: Daisy Hildyard and Precious Okoyomon. As another of Lovelock’s heirs, Tim Lenton, writes in his afterword, this encounter was pivotal in Lovelock’s late intellectual life and, at the start of 2023, provides a guide – by way of Lovelock’s Gaian approach – to address today’s problems.
book presentation
Sunday April 16th, at 4PM
with Hans Ulrich Obrist, author