Studio Kitchen Visits: Joshna Maharaj – On communal eating

As part of the studio kitchen's ongoing research into sustainable food, Canadian chef and activist Joshna Maharaj was invited to the studio to cook a meal with the kitchen team and to discuss her ideas of radically rethinking the social value of food. An advocate for the positive impact of healthy communal eating, Joshna partners with institutions in Canada to bring fresh local food to schools and hospitals. Watch more food related films on www.soe.tv

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Mirror tunnel taking shape in the studio. Initial tests for work that will be part of Una mirada a lo que vendrá, Galeriá Elvira González, Madrid. Opens February 13
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Girls and women play to change the world one (global) goal at the time. Congratulations to all participating teams at the The Global Goals Cup last week in Dubai! And special congrats to the winners – the Diamond Divas who played for SDG11, Sustainable Cities and Communities. Photos by Emil Lyders. Click on image for more

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#brickbuilding #vejle #soon

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Reality projector, during early development phase at the studio. The installation opens at The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles on March 1

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#brickbuilding #vejle #soon

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In the wake of Hurricane Maria’s crushing devastation of Puerto Rico – curator Klaus Biesenbach and Christopher Gregory, a Puerto Rican photojournalist, traveled together to see how artists were facing the challenges of a post-disaster island. The art world in Puerto Rico has had to learn to survive during financially difficult times through a new artistic “sharing” economy — sharing knowledge; resources; and access to infrastructure, materials and spaces. Might these artists now serve as an example — and catalyst — for other communities?

Read the interesting feature in New York Times and go to mariafund.org to learn how you can support.

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Una mirada a lo que vendrá (a view of things to come) opens at Galeriá Elvira González, Madrid on February 13 (image: Collective evolution, watercolour on paper)

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Seeing plants - at Stúdíó Ólafur Elíasson, Marshall House, Reykjavik. Photo Vigfus Birgisson

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Everything is connected by the sun. #studio

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Little Sun Diamond

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Good friend of the studio Fukiko Takase moving around in Your rainbow panorama. Also check out the film Studio attention on www.soe.tv - which we did last time she visited.

Excerpt from Peggy Weil's 88 Cores, now on view at The Climate Museum, NYC. This excerpt shows section ice at 2137 meters

Excerpt from Peggy Weil’s 88 Cores - a 110,000 years descent through Greenland's ice sheet - now on view at The Climate Museum, NYC. This excerpt shows a section of the ice at 2137 meters.
Minik Rosing, prof. in geology:
"The Greenlandic Ice Sheet formed through hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated snow, compacted into glacial ice under its own weight. Glacial ice is made up of visible layers, each a snapshot of the snow that fell during a given year. Likewise, the bubbles trapped in the ice contain samples of the atmosphere as it was at the time the snow fell. Ice contains memories of how the climate and the atmosphere have changed over hundreds of millennia, presenting the progression of time in the layers of ice in much the same way that the rings of a tree reveal its age. The amount of ice lost at the edges used to equal to the accumulation of new snow every year, but the warmer climate has thrown the Greenland ice sheet out of balance. Currently, the amount of ice lost each year is 200–300 billion tonnes, a rate that is expected to increase dramatically."

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Objects defined by activity - opens tomorrow at Espace Muraille in Geneva

Hawassa Skatepark Build

Ethiopia Skate is a local grassroots community who works to empower youth in Ethiopia by providing access to skateboard materials and by creating skate parks. They just built a new skatepark in Hawassa, Ethiopia

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The Global Goals Cup kicks off today in Dubai! Rule is simple: Girls and women play to change the world one (global) goal at a t

The Global Goals Cup kicks off today in Dubai! Rule is simple: Girls and women play to change the world one (global) goal at a time

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"Being an optimist doesn’t mean you ignore tragedy and injustice. It means you’re inspired to look for people making progress on those fronts, and to help spread that progress more widely. In 1990, more than a third of the global population lived in extreme poverty; today only about a tenth do. A century ago, it was legal to be gay in about 20 countries; today it’s legal in over 100. Women are gaining political power and now make up more than a fifth of members of national parliaments—and the world is finally starting to listen when women speak up about sexual assault. More than 90% of all children in the world attend primary school. In the U.S., you are far less likely to die on the job or in a car than your grandparents were. And so on. There’s also a growing gap between the bad things that still happen and our tolerance of those things. Over the centuries, violence has declined dramatically, as has our willingness to accept it. But because the improvements don’t keep pace with our expectations, it can seem like things are getting worse. To some extent, it is good that bad news gets attention. If you want to improve the world, you need something to be mad about. But it has to be balanced by upsides. When you see good things happening, you can channel your energy into driving even more progress" - Bill Gates in the latest issue of Time Magazine

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Do colours only exist when looked at?

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Old friend and long-time collaborator Steen Koerner came by the studio recently and did a movement workshop with the studio team. Check out interventions and artworks he has done with the studio on www.soe.tv

Olafur on experiencing light in his childhood in Iceland

Audio file: Olafur on the wonder of experiencing light (and the lack thereof) in his childhood in Iceland. Interview produced by Thalia Gigerenzer for her podcast "On Wonder"

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In progress: Meles Memorial Park in Addis Ababa by Studio Other Spaces

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