Shifting Landscapes

Marshmallow Laser Feast’s director Ersin Han Ersin discusses the process behind the experiential art collective’s “Breathing with the Forest” and how their immersive projects strive to illuminate the hidden natural forces that surround us.

A conversation with Studio Airport’s Bram Broerse and Maurits Wouters, Emergence Magazine’s executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, and Stack Magazines’ director Steven Watson on the evolving relationship between story and design in print, digital, and physical spaces.

Nightingales, who have coexisted with humans for millennia and been a consistent wellspring of intrigue and creative inspiration, are losing breeding habitat in England and may disappear from the country within our lifetimes. In this film, folk singer Sam Lee draws on an ancient lineage of oral storytelling as he joins this elusive bird in mutual song.

On a remote Icelandic island, pufflings leaving their nests for the first time often get lost in the town, mistaking the harbour lights for the moon. In this new Emergence Magazine, If/Then Shorts and New Yorker Documentary short film, we follow two teenagers, Birta and Selma, for a night as they rescue young puffins while also grappling with their own uncertain futures. In the age of climate crisis, Puffling explores the delicate interplay between wildlife and human life. This film was produced as part of a special Shifting Landscapes film program with If/Then Shorts and Emergence Magazine.

Biologist and author David G. Haskell journeys through deep time to trace the evolution of sound on Earth and the kinship that is present when we listen to the songs that thrum in the air around us.

Nightingales, who have coexisted with humans for millennia and been a consistent wellspring of intrigue and creative inspiration, are losing breeding habitat in England and may disappear from the country within our lifetimes. In this film, folk singer Sam Lee draws on an ancient lineage of oral storytelling as he joins this elusive bird in mutual song.

To create the film Lost World, Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam spent several years embedded with the community of Koh Sralau, whose livelihoods depend on mangrove forests that are being mined for sand to expand Singapore’s landmass. Join us for a conversation to learn more about Kalyanee’s filmmaking process and the intimate, reciprocal relationships that have allowed her to tell this story from a place of humility and mutual connection.

Nigerian-British poet and Booker Prize–winning novelist Ben Okri will read his poem “Earth Cries” and an excerpt from his book Tiger Work, which explore the dissolution of the world we have known and the possibilities emerging in its wake.

An afternoon of conversation with filmmaker Kalyanee Mam, Climate in Colour founder Joycelyn Longdon, and writer Lucy Jones, chaired by biologist and author David G. Haskell, that will consider how we might rekindle awe and reciprocity by remembering ourselves as extensions of the changing Earth.

Mycologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake joins Marshmallow Laser Feast creative director Barney Steel and Emergence Magazine founder Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee in conversation about the mycelial webs that infiltrate and sustain the landscapes we inhabit. Tracing these underground networks, we’ll explore how fungi challenge our traditional conceptions of individuality, intelligence, and life itself.

Writer and ethicist Melanie Challenger speaks to the framework of kinship and compassion that underpins Animals in the Room—a project exploring how animals can participate and be represented in the environmental and political decisions that affect them.

Nightingales, who have coexisted with humans for millennia and been a consistent wellspring of intrigue and creative inspiration, are losing breeding habitat in England and may disappear from the country within our lifetimes. In this film, folk singer Sam Lee draws on an ancient lineage of oral storytelling as he joins this elusive bird in mutual song.

Nightingales, who have coexisted with humans for millennia and been a consistent wellspring of intrigue and creative inspiration, are losing breeding habitat in England and may disappear from the country within our lifetimes. In this film, folk singer Sam Lee draws on an ancient lineage of oral storytelling as he joins this elusive bird in mutual song.