“The Word for World is Forest”: Art and Human Ecological Restoration

This course borrows its title from the science fiction novel of Ursula K. Le Guin, published in 1972. My intention with it is to invoke more-than-human perspectives, indigenous cosmovisions and fabulations of worlds otherwise, looking at theory and artistic practices centered around ways of being in and with nature. The debate around ecology during the semester will not only look at the climate catastrophe, but shed light in action, and the constant fight against racial and gender subjugation in the Global South, sharing possibilities of moving towards a “world of many worlds” – as defended by the Zapatistas.