URBAN NATURE - Episode 1: Emanuele Coccia and Gabriel Kozlowski

In this episode of URBAN NATURE,
Emanuele Coccia and Gabriel
Kozlowski talk about the relationship of ecology with
economy and politics, both in history and in the present. Coccia
argues that we call natural environment is a form of artifact,
artificially produced by living beings, and that the solution to
our future is a spatial one, as a form of new modes of
cohabitation between species.


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Welcome to the first episode of URBAN NATURE,
hosted by Gabriel Kozlowski, Brazilian architect
and curator working on urbanization from the perspective of
political ecology. The Series presents guests from a diverse set
of disciplines—including Anthropology, Biology, Philosophy,
Political Science, Political Theory, Geography, Architecture, the
Arts, among others—that have been reflecting on the relationship
between humans and nature.


The first guest to inaugurate the series is Emanuele
Coccia, a philosopher with interest spanning from
ecology to arts and fashion. Coccia has a background in
agricultural sciences. When he first got exposed to botany,
chemistry and biology, the influence of which becomes evident in
some of his philosophical works is he's the author of The
Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (2018) and
Metamorphosis (2021). He is currently working on
a book on the history of ecology.


"We forget that ecology and economy are twin sisters. In
the sense that they are sciences that share the same
name—remember: ecology starts as "economy of nature"—, they share
the same concepts, the same epistemological frameworks, and the
same metaphors. (…) for instance, the metaphor of invisible hand
that produces an order, a balance, was present from the start in
both ecology and economy." -Emanuele Coccia


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Episode recorded on Zoom in March 2022. 


Produced by ISTANBUL'74.