Publication

Publication DNA #24: Evidence Ensembles

Following Kat’s participation in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Anthropocene Curriculum event Unearthing the Present, we are delighted to announce that the follow-up publication DNA #24: Evidence Ensembles (2024), published by Spector Books is now available. CONTRIBUTORS: Kat Austen; Christoph Rosol; Giulia Rispoli; Katrin Klingan; Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck; Carbon Aesthetics […]

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Book published: Co-designing Infrastructures

„Co-designing Infrastructures: Community collaboration for liveable cities“ by Sarah Bell, Charlotte Johnson, Kat Austen, Gemma Moore, and Tse-Hui Teh ISBN: 9781800082229 Publication: April 27, 2023 Series: Engaging Communities in City-making Published by Open Access by UCL Press DOWNLOAD From the UCL Press site Co-designing Infrastructures tells the story of a research programme designed to […]

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Fossil Echoes Book Published

We are thrilled to announce the publication of Kat’s book Fossil Echoes, which draws together two of my artworks that look at the consequences of human addiction to fossil fuels. On one side, This Land is Not Mine about brown coal mining and its effect on landscape and culture. On […]

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Learning from Landscapes for the Post-Anthropocene – Publication

Kat’s essay, commissioned by the Against Catastrophe research project, has been published in the project’s most recent edition, the Energy Dispatch. The article draws on Kat’s research for This Land is Not Mine to explore what secrets post-extractive landscapes reveal for a sustainable future. „There is something captivating about destruction […]

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After Extractivism Text published by Berliner Gazette

Learning from Landscapes: Aesthetics, Identity And The Post-Extractivist Transition The coal region of Lusatia in the former East Germany is undergoing fundamental socio-economic changes. The challenge is to work collaboratively and collectively on a just transition – with humans and with non-human and more-than-human community members, Kat Austen argues in […]

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