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Stephen Leitheiser, RECOMS fellow. While many were worried about the supplies of toilet paper in the early stages of the pandemic, those of us who had been sounding the alarm on global food system vulnerabilities began
Christian Lamker, University of Groningen The turbulent year 2020 makes it hard to be confident about imaginations of the distant future, the future processes that transform places in our cities and regions and the impacts that
Lummina Horlings Anyone who reads the news these days will recognize that climate change is anything but fiction. Real stories of risk, danger, and loss are conveyed to us daily, whether in relation to wildfires, floods,
Christian Lamker The Corona crisis has focused our perspective to the importance of critical infrastructures and public services. In particular, the crisis reveals how interrelated processes are to provide even the most basic goods and services.
Lummina Horlings. Welcome to you all – in these strange and unprecedented times. Due to the COVID-19 virus we are facing the challenge to stay together while on on a distance and also keep collaborating. The
A poem by John Doyle Our attachments. All can vanish in an instant. They will vanish from us sooner or later anyway, but abrupt insult is another matter. Outrage and grief become the new reality. Use
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 765389. RECOMS supported the technical development, hosting, and maintenance of the blog.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 674962. SUSPLACE supported the design of the blog.
Initiative: Lummina Horlings and Gwenda vd Vaart. Design: Phanatique