The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade
A book exploring the world of succulent collecting.
A book exploring the world of succulent collecting.
Segundo capítulo de la exposición virtual de Ricardo Rozzi et al., De lupas a telescopios: Explorando el microcosmos y el macrocosmos en los laboratorios bioculturales de Chile.
Werksviertel-Mitte: A Showcase for Nature in the Ostbahnhof Neighborhood? In the Werksviertel the urban future of Munich is being reinvented. The development of the former industrial district is based on a social vision: inclusion and bringing together diverse elements. The Werksviertel has a rich history, and the plans for the future are ambitious. Is it possible to find a successful balance between past and future, between city and nature?
StadtAcker: Munich’s most valuable oasis? An example of how the dream of an urban garden can become a reality is the StadtAcker. Assisted by the city administration, citizens created a green oasis.
Former railway embankment Feldkirchner Tangente—Munich’s “Wild East”? For a short time, this bypass route was used by trains. For a long time, endangered fauna move about undisturbed across the former embankment, rare plants establish themselves, and local people go here for recreation and relaxation.
The physical Ecopolis München 2019 exhibition also included a station for younger visitors. Every station was told as a story for children. After an adult reads the stories to the children, they could draw their impressions on paper at a nearby table. This station was created by Isabelle Hermannstädter.
Since the mid-nineteenth century, vegetarianism and veganism have attracted public attention and provoked controversial discussions in Europe. The exhibition traces the development of the discourse on vegetarianism in caricatures, satirical drawings and poems that mock the movement, its worldview, social structures, and eating habits. This is from the German version of “Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism.” For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.