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For our first SOILS Reading Group, we are privileged to be joined by Professor Alexandra Toland , Bauhaus University Weimar. This will be a digital session (on Zoom), where we discuss the literature referenced below. Welcome!
Readings
Feller, C., E.R Landa, A. Toland, and G. Wessolek. 2015. "Case studies of soil in art". SOIL. Vol. 1(2): 543-559. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-543-2015
Toland, A. 2016. "Dirt Dialogues – An Exercise in Transdisciplinary Integration". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. Vol. 41(1): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2016.1171582
Wessolek, G., and A. Toland. 2017. "Devil in the sand". In: Kim and Levin (Eds.) Urban Soils and Culture: 231-240. Schweizerbart Verlag.
About the Presenter
Alexandra Regan Toland is dean of studies and junior professor for arts and research at the Bauhaus University Weimar, where she directs the PhD program in art and design. She earned her MFA from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and a doctorate degree in landscape planning from the TU-Berlin as a DFG fellow in the Perspectives of Urban Ecology Graduate Research Group. She co-chaired the German Soil Science Society’s (DBG) Commission on Soils in Education and Society from 2011 to 2015, and since 2022 is IUSS chair of the Commission on the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Soil Science. In her artistic practice, Alex explores social and cultural issues of urban soils, vegetation, and air in the Anthropocene.