Reflections on Collaboration as Performance and the Performance of Collaboration in an Age of COVID and Climate Crisis

Natalie Loveless and Sheena Wilson reflect on their history of working collaboratively, thinking through the complexities of feminist labour informed by research on the maternal as social performance and social fact. Whether resculpting academic political spaces in more sustainable ways or reshaping daily reality according to more ecological form, the authors argue for collaborative praxis—collaborative performance and the performance of collaboration—as a means of resistance and resilience in a time of political and climate catastrophe.

UNSUR EKOLOGI DALAM PERIBAHASA BANJAR ( ECOLOGY ELEMENTS IN BANJARESE PROVERBS)

Ecology Elements in the Banjarese Proverbs. This research is motivated by the researcher's interest in preserving the Banjarese proverbs which is now starting to fade in its meaning due to ignorance of the ecological forms of flora, fauna, and culture which are used as a kias word in Banjarese proverbs. This study aims to describe (1) the ecological form of flora in the Banjarese proverbs (2) the ecological form of fauna in the Banjarese proverbs (3) The form of cultural ecology in the Banjarese proverbs. Sources of data are obtained from books and informants. The book used as a data source is a collection of Banjarese proverbs by Aliansyah Jumbawuya. The results of this study found that of the three classifications there were even more specific classifications, namely, (1) the Banjarese proverbs ecological flora consisting of vegetables, fruits, and wild plants, (2) Banjarese proverbs ecology fauna consisting of fauna habitat in land and water, and (3) the Banjarese proverbs of cultural ecology consists of three categories, namely home architecture, tools and living equipment, and systems of thought. Key words: ecology, oral tradition, Banjarese proverb Abstrak Unsur Ekologi Sastra dalam Paribasa Banjar. Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh ketertarikan peneliti untuk melestarikan peribahasa Banjar yang sekarang mulai kabur dalam pemaknaannya akibat ketidaktahuan akan wujud ekologi flora, fauna, dan budaya yang dijadikan kata kias dalam peribahasa Banjar. Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan (1) Wujud ekologi flora dalam peribahasa Banjar (2) Wujud ekologi fauna dalam peribahasa Banjar (3) Wujud ekologi budaya dalam peribahasa Banjar. Sumber data didapat dari buku dan informan. Adapun buku yang dijadikan sumber data adalah kumpulan peribahasa Banjar karya Aliansyah Jumbawuya. Hasil penelitian ini menemukan dari tiga klasifikasi tersebut di dapat penggolongan yang lebih spesifik lagi yakni, (1) peribahasa Banjar ekologi flora terdiri dari sayur-sayuran, buah-buahan, dan tanaman liar, (2) peribahasa Banjar ekologi fauna terdiri dari fauna habitat di darat dan di air, dan (3) peribahasa Banjar ekologi budaya terdiri dari tiga kategori yakni arsitektur rumah, peralatan dan perlengkapan hidup, dan sistem berpikir. Kata-kata kunci: unsur ekologi, tradisi lisan, paribasa Banjar

Extrapolative Morph Design Thinking as an Intangible Ecological Form to Encode the Ecodesign Identity

This paper identifies a new distinction of ecodesign form, where it emerged from the literature case study that most practising designers have not conceived to interpret design research as an ecodesign identity. This research article objective reveals the ecological form creation in the semantics orders. The imaging product digitized an ecological form that was hermeneutically sourced by the literature review process using the heuristic method. It digitized the visual imagery before entering the prescriptive stage. The product imagery therefore digitized some ecodesign characteristics that the intangible ecological form conveyed in the form follows functional perspective; believing to environmentally-friendly product design. Keywords: Form; heuristic method; industrial design; intangible ecological form eISSN: 2398-4287© 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bsby e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5iSI3.2538

George Eliot's Estuarial Form

This essay recasts the central locale of The Mill on the Floss in order to show how the geography and society of George Eliot's novel function together as a conjoined ecological system. I show that the port at St. Ogg's is set on an estuary, and from this observation, I claim that the entanglement of multiple estuarial waters provides a formal model for the overall ecology of the novel. Referring to this system as “ecological form,” the essay shows how the characters’ misunderstanding of the estuarial nature of the St. Ogg's hydrography is the primary source of the communal divisions with which the novel is so famously riven. In so doing, this essay makes two methodological interventions, one local, and one slightly more global. In the first, I show how unsticking the progression of our criticism from that of a novel's plot—especially one with such a catastrophically strong telos as Mill’s—can allow us to view form and, particularly, geography as newly vital to literary history. This leads to the second intervention, in which I suggest that reading practices in an age of environmental collapse should look beyond disaster itself and toward affected communities’ systemic ties to those extraneous systems—economic, legal, imperial—that aid and abet disasters elsewhere and even ignore the potential for catastrophic reoccurrence in the near future. In other words, reading for water readily yields a wide-ranging map of global capitalism perhaps unexpectedly centered on a small town in Lincolnshire.

Ecological Form

Victorian England was both the world’s first industrial society and its most powerful global empire. Ecological Form coordinates those facts to show how one version of the Anthropocene first emerged into visibility in the nineteenth century. Many of that era’s most sophisticated observers recognized that the systemic interconnections and global scale of both empire and ecology posed challenges best examined through aesthetic form. Using “ecological formalism” to open new dimensions to our understanding of the Age of Coal, contributors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate “natural” questions with social ones; and underscore the category of form—as built structure, internal organizing logic, and generic code—as a means for generating environmental and therefore political knowledge. Together these essays show how Victorian thinkers deployed an array of literary forms, from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance and the scientific treatise, to think interconnection at world scale. They also renovate our understanding of major writers like Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, John Ruskin, and Joseph Conrad, even while demonstrating the centrality of less celebrated figures, including Dinabandhu Mitra, Samuel Butler, and Joseph Dalton Hooker, to contemporary debates about the humanities and climate change. As the essays survey the circuits of dispossession linking Britain to the Atlantic World, Bengal, New Zealand, and elsewhere—and connecting the Victorian era to our own—they advance the most pressing argument of Ecological Form, which is that past thought can be a resource for reimagining the present.