Radioshow • Intimate Connections
Music is a medium that helps foster and enhance desired states of feeling and embodied experience. From one moment to the next, music can make you feel good, uplifted—it can promote the temporary abatement of pain and deflects from debilitating energies and feelings. Intimate Connections engages with music’s capacity to help us cope and develop in manifold ways.
Animation Film • Something New: Covid Living
Created by poet Koleka Putuma and illustrator Ivyy Chen, this animation beautifully captures young people’s approach to dealing with the challenges of Covid-19 lockdowns.
Online Archive • Berlin Conversations on Mental Health
In the summer 2022, we talked to 23 people in Berlin and asked them about their understanding of mental health. For us, addressing mental health was a way of investigating the fundamental aspects of living together. We especially wanted to learn about how mental health relates to social inequalities in the city. In this online archive, you can explore conversations with different experts, talking about mental health in Berlin.
Activity sheets • Kindling: Activities to Spark Joy and Belonging Gathered from Around the World
As artist in residence at large, Christine Wong Yap engaged local teens in New York, library patrons in Berlin, senior citizens outside of Tokyo and teenagers in Bengaluru to develop activity sheets which reflected their areas of interest and perspectives on belonging. Activities were compiled into a zine called Kindling: Activities to Spark Joy and Belonging Gathered from Around the World. Three sample activities from Kindling are available for free download via the following link:
Audio tour • Repair, Fractures, Divisions: The Histories and Presents of the Gropius Bau
Audio Tour: The Gropius Bau and its immediate surroundings are characterised by a multitude of histories. The building housed various institutions over time and is marked by the intertwining of the central violent regimes of the 20th century in Germany: colonial rule, Nazi dictatorship and the division of Berlin have left their traces here. The neglected ruin of the Gropius Bau is considered a sign of new beginnings in post-war Germany. In this audio walk consisting of three parts, students search for hints on how history and the present affect each other.
→ Audio tour: Invisibilities
→ Audio tour: Traces
→ Audio tour: Repair
Blog Series • Well-Placed
Urban Omnibus, a publication of The Architectural League of New York, The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY
At the library, at the park, at the clubhouse... how do communities mobilize and create spaces that foster collective power and peace of mind? The series Well-Placed, guest edited by graduate students Asma Neblett, Helena Najm, Jessica Fletcher, Nawal Muradwij and Mindscapes New York cultural lead Rebecca Jacobs. looked at citymaking strategies that promote mental health and wellbeing, especially those for whom the city does not already work well. The animating question of the series was, In the face of exclusion and displacement, how do communities mobilize urban space for mental health and collective wellbeing? The five pieces “Clinical Trials,” “Staying the Distance,” “Teenage Dream,” “On the Up and Up” and “Minding the Gaps” all explored this question, using relevant case studies from New York’s past and present.
Book • The Resonant Museum. Berlin Conversations on Mental Health
The starting point for this book is the conversation on mental health. The conversations capture a specific set of circumstances in Berlin from the years 2021 and 2022. Interlocutors from the fields of science, culture and politics and activist contexts reflect on and articulate their experiences. They render one thing evident: speaking about mental health means also speaking about society. These conversations emerged from a cooperation between the Gropius Bau and Mindscapes, Wellcome’s international cultural programme on mental health. Introductory texts discuss the processes through which museums can open up towards society and ask how these institutions can become socially relevant places capable of effecting change.
→ Link to book in German
→ Link to book in English
→ Download the German version here
→ Download the English version here
Writing • Tōjisha-kenkyū
Text by Satsuki Ayayais and Junko Kitanaka: This radical movement makes space for people with mental health and other challenges to study (and celebrate) themselves
Booklet • Stay Steady
Due to discrimination, in the U.S. many formerly incarcerated people struggle with financial stability. It’s even harder if they have a mental or physical health condition that prevents them from working. The Center for Urban Pedagogy teamed up with The Mental Health Project of the Urban Justice Center and design team 13 milliseconds to create a booklet in English and Spanish for formerly incarcerated people that explains how to apply for two social security programs, SSI and SSDI. With this information, formerly incarcerated people with disabilities can more easily access financial stability, which plays an important role in disrupting cycles of hospitalization, homelessness, and incarceration.
Learning series • Art sparks
Art Sparks is MAP’s learning series for young people, hosted on the museum’s Youtube Channel. It advocates learning and thinking with the arts amongst children on a global scale. The programme is structured as seasons, with each season having eight short episodes that explore the chosen content through a variety of formats – whether it is thinking routines and art games, or do-along making based demonstrations. Season eight of Art Sparks features expressive arts therapist Nidhi Khurana and four young volunteers who try out eight artful prompts from the Art For Thought toolkit. Art for Thought is a set of mindful learning exercises shaped to make one gaze inward, wonder, imagine and feel.
→ Episode 1: Inner Self (Reflecting On The Self)
→ Episode 2: Inner Self (Recognising The Self)
→ Episode 3: Body (Accessing Restfulness)
→ Episode 4: Inner Self (Identifying Feelings)
Writing • The therapeutic power in learning to make a film together
A collaboration among workers in India showed the power of making and discussing films for sharing life’s inner challenges. A sanitation worker dreams of becoming a lawyer to fight for workers’ rights. A mother imagines sharing her secrets with her child. A woman practises for a difficult conversation. This is the story of Kathi, Kathi, Kaarana, a yet-to-be-released short film narrated and produced by workers from the city of Bangalore and their families. But I’d like to share the story behind this story: one about four working-class families who dreamed of making films and attended a film school to collectively learn, create, and take care of each other.
Zine • Healing room
Drawing on the artist’s personal story of migration, illness, and recovery, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven centered the need for care and healing, particularly for the undocumented and cancer communities of which Guadalupe Maravilla is a part. The exhibition featured new sculptures, retablo paintings, tripa chuca drawings, and sound works, as well as a Healing Room, a community space for collective care designed by teen staff. The teen staff also created a Zine that was displayed in the Healing Room
→ Interviews with teens about the healing room
→ Video presentation
→ Zine
Writing • Under the mkone tree
When Priya Basil returned to Kenya, where she grew up, she found biomedicine and traditional medicine in conversation about mental health.
Urban Investigation • Bronx Be Well
In the summer of 2021, CUP, Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas, and students from the Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School collaborated to investigate the relationship between poverty and mental health in the neighborhood where their school is located in the Bronx. Students explored the issue through digital filmmaking, creating stop-motion animations, surveying community members, and interviewing stakeholders and decision makers. The group gathered what they learned and created a short documentary film that explores how poverty impacts mental health.
Film • Berlin Conversations on Mental Health
In the summer 2022, we talked to 23 people in Berlin and asked them about their understanding of mental health. For us, addressing mental health was a way of investigating the fundamental aspects of living together. We especially wanted to learn about how mental health relates to social inequalities in the city. In this online film, you can explore what people answered to the question: In your wildest dreams, how would you imagine the future of mental health in Berlin?
Virtual Reality Tour • The Ultimate Sleeping Place
The film and virtual reality tour offer an opportunity to immerse yourself in the ultimate sleeping places and their surroundings. Developed by the Urban Investigation Project’s Japanese architecture team, the project focuses on creating “ultimate sleeping spaces.” The virtual reality tour allows you to explore these spaces, which were conceptualized by the team's youth members. YOKOMI Kenichi, one of the youth participants, crafted the VR experience using meticulously handcrafted maquettes and drawings representing their envisioned ultimate sleeping places.
Audio testimonies • Voices of the women from Lingarajapuram
This audio piece is part of the installation Nanna Langa (my skirt) by Indu Antony, that was produced in collaboration with women from Lingarajapuram. The work draws from the central idea of Namma Katte - a space of solidarity where the women of the Lingarajapuram come together to embroider their stories. You can listen to some of the stories here (in Urdu, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu) or read the transcripts in English.
Interview • Reflection on Mindscapes Tokyo
Mindscapes Tokyo which began its initiatives in 2022, has engaged people from various backgrounds in two projects: the “Urban Investigation Project” and “Convening.” Through these projects, participants have been engaging in dialogues and deepening discussions about mental health. As a culmination of these efforts, an event titled Mindscapes Tokyo Week was held in February 2023. What does mental health mean from a cultural and artistic perspective? KIKUCHI, the artist leading inVisible, shares insights into the project's progress and the emerging themes and challenges for the future.
Audio • Oppari, a folk eulogy, from the artwork Us
This oppari, a folk eulogy and form of lamenting, accompanied Indu Anthony’s artwork Us. Antony commemorates the death of women who could not be mourned, whose stories were left unacknowledged and whose presence left forgotten. Us is an invitation to hold space for each other, to remember and to share. In some communities of Lingarajapuram, the passing away of women is accompanied by silencing the causes of their death. This leaves little time and space for families to grieve their demise. Indu Antony creates this work as a memorial to honour such women from the community, whose stories have been ignored. You can listen to the oppari here, or read the transcript in English.
Film • Do you consider yourself to be normal?
“Do you consider yourself to be normal?” is an interview film about “being normal” that the youth investigators from the Urban Investigation Project conducted with the people they care about. “Film while looking into each other's eyes, at a distance where we can touch each other, with feelings of care and consideration for each other.” Based on these rules, the youth investigators captured their precious individuals in a one-on-one setting. The footage taken at such close proximity reflects not only the subjects but also the presence of the youth as the videographers. Through the genuine gaze of these teenage investigators, directed towards a single individual, various aspects of 'being normal' are portrayed, prompting new inquiries and offering insights into the society that defines what is deemed ‘normal.’
Film • The Laundromat Project “Collective Recovery” programming
Founded in 2005, The Laundromat Project (The LP) is a Black-rooted and POC (People of Colour)-centered community-based arts organisation that advances artists and neighbours as change agents in their own communities. The LP’s Mindscapes programming in Bedford-Stuyvestant, Brooklyn, centered on community wellbeing and mental health through the methodology of “Collective Recovery” developed by Dr. Mindy Fullilove and her colleagues at University of Orange during the Covid-19 pandemic. It included a series of story circles, a window commission, and outdoor art-making events, providing a space for neighbors to process, connect, and build community cohesion in the wake of the pandemic. A film was also created as part of Mindscapes to document and share this programming with wider communities.
Booklet • Resonance from the Neighbourhood
Personal and professional experiences on mental health from participants located in the neighbourhood around the Gropius Bau were exchanged and collected at regular meetings held over several months. You can find some outcomes of the conversations in the little booklet, that was part of the Resonance Room.
Booklet • Theory of the Ultimate Sleeping Place
The Japanese architecture team for the Urban Investigation Project, which focused on the theme of creating the “Ultimate Sleeping Place,” arrived at the conclusion through their research that it is not about extravagance. Instead, they believe that each individual possesses a unique idea for a space that constitutes their “Ultimate Sleeping Place.” This work, titled “The Theory of Ultimate Sleeping Place,” compiles the drawings of the nine investigators’ respective ultimate sleeping places, as well as their discourse on the subject.
The booklet was edited and designed by one of the investigators, LEE Yubin, and the opening statement, written by the lead investigator HAYASHI Takatsune (architect/carpenter), has been translated into English.
Writing • People not professionals by Arjun Kapoor and Jasmine Kalha
Training individuals to support one another through difficult times is a profound step forward in our mental health crisis. (Image credit: drawing by Ivvy Chen)
Interactive Installation • Cloud Swing
Cloud Swing, designed by Isometric Studio, is an accessible swing set that is a powerful statement of inclusion and childlike wonder. Five swings are suspended from a curvilinear cloud, and two of the swings are especially fabricated with foldable ramps for wheelchair users. Cloud Swing is designed to inspire a world where public art and play invite and include people of all abilities. Cloud Swing was designed by Isometric Studio and fabricated by Serett Metalworks. It opened to the public at Grounds for Sculpture in October 2023.
Writing • Reasons to be cheerful / The Great Recovery
The series “The Great Recovery. Stories about the new ideas and approaches improving our mental health systems”, commissioned by Mindscapes, examined how a surge in innovation, outreach, access and attention to equity is improving our mental health systems.
Conversation • Confronting Climate Grief in Fiction. New York Public Library. September 21, 2023
Writers whose novels and stories have crossed the intersection of climate change and mental health asked whether fiction can have a meaningful impact on how we handle the climate crisis. The climate crisis and mental health have figured into the novels or stories of Akil Kumarasamy, Sam J. Miller, and Nathaniel Rich. Speaking with Mary Annaïse Heglar, they discussed the responsibilities that storytellers do or don’t have to center our most dire global challenge, and how they respect both the big picture narratives of climate change and the individual stories of mental and physical health within them—and what kind of change can we reasonably expect their work to help induce. (Organized by LIVE from NYPL)
Radioshow • Intimate Connections
Music is a medium that helps foster and enhance desired states of feeling and embodied experience. From one moment to the next, music can make you feel good, uplifted—it can promote the temporary abatement of pain and deflects from debilitating energies and feelings. Intimate Connections engages with music’s capacity to help us cope and develop in manifold ways.
Animation Film • Something New: Covid Living
Created by poet Koleka Putuma and illustrator Ivyy Chen, this animation beautifully captures young people’s approach to dealing with the challenges of Covid-19 lockdowns.
Online Archive • Berlin Conversations on Mental Health
In the summer 2022, we talked to 23 people in Berlin and asked them about their understanding of mental health. For us, addressing mental health was a way of investigating the fundamental aspects of living together. We especially wanted to learn about how mental health relates to social inequalities in the city. In this online archive, you can explore conversations with different experts, talking about mental health in Berlin.
Activity sheets • Kindling: Activities to Spark Joy and Belonging Gathered from Around the World
As artist in residence at large, Christine Wong Yap engaged local teens in New York, library patrons in Berlin, senior citizens outside of Tokyo and teenagers in Bengaluru to develop activity sheets which reflected their areas of interest and perspectives on belonging. Activities were compiled into a zine called Kindling: Activities to Spark Joy and Belonging Gathered from Around the World. Three sample activities from Kindling are available for free download via the following link:
Audio tour • Repair, Fractures, Divisions: The Histories and Presents of the Gropius Bau
Audio Tour: The Gropius Bau and its immediate surroundings are characterised by a multitude of histories. The building housed various institutions over time and is marked by the intertwining of the central violent regimes of the 20th century in Germany: colonial rule, Nazi dictatorship and the division of Berlin have left their traces here. The neglected ruin of the Gropius Bau is considered a sign of new beginnings in post-war Germany. In this audio walk consisting of three parts, students search for hints on how history and the present affect each other.
→ Audio tour: Invisibilities
→ Audio tour: Traces
→ Audio tour: Repair
Blog Series • Well-Placed
Urban Omnibus, a publication of The Architectural League of New York, The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY
At the library, at the park, at the clubhouse... how do communities mobilize and create spaces that foster collective power and peace of mind? The series Well-Placed, guest edited by graduate students Asma Neblett, Helena Najm, Jessica Fletcher, Nawal Muradwij and Mindscapes New York cultural lead Rebecca Jacobs. looked at citymaking strategies that promote mental health and wellbeing, especially those for whom the city does not already work well. The animating question of the series was, In the face of exclusion and displacement, how do communities mobilize urban space for mental health and collective wellbeing? The five pieces “Clinical Trials,” “Staying the Distance,” “Teenage Dream,” “On the Up and Up” and “Minding the Gaps” all explored this question, using relevant case studies from New York’s past and present.
Book • The Resonant Museum. Berlin Conversations on Mental Health
The starting point for this book is the conversation on mental health. The conversations capture a specific set of circumstances in Berlin from the years 2021 and 2022. Interlocutors from the fields of science, culture and politics and activist contexts reflect on and articulate their experiences. They render one thing evident: speaking about mental health means also speaking about society. These conversations emerged from a cooperation between the Gropius Bau and Mindscapes, Wellcome’s international cultural programme on mental health. Introductory texts discuss the processes through which museums can open up towards society and ask how these institutions can become socially relevant places capable of effecting change.
→ Link to book in German
→ Link to book in English
→ Download the German version here
→ Download the English version here
Writing • Tōjisha-kenkyū
Text by Satsuki Ayayais and Junko Kitanaka: This radical movement makes space for people with mental health and other challenges to study (and celebrate) themselves
Booklet • Stay Steady
Due to discrimination, in the U.S. many formerly incarcerated people struggle with financial stability. It’s even harder if they have a mental or physical health condition that prevents them from working. The Center for Urban Pedagogy teamed up with The Mental Health Project of the Urban Justice Center and design team 13 milliseconds to create a booklet in English and Spanish for formerly incarcerated people that explains how to apply for two social security programs, SSI and SSDI. With this information, formerly incarcerated people with disabilities can more easily access financial stability, which plays an important role in disrupting cycles of hospitalization, homelessness, and incarceration.
Learning series • Art sparks
Art Sparks is MAP’s learning series for young people, hosted on the museum’s Youtube Channel. It advocates learning and thinking with the arts amongst children on a global scale. The programme is structured as seasons, with each season having eight short episodes that explore the chosen content through a variety of formats – whether it is thinking routines and art games, or do-along making based demonstrations. Season eight of Art Sparks features expressive arts therapist Nidhi Khurana and four young volunteers who try out eight artful prompts from the Art For Thought toolkit. Art for Thought is a set of mindful learning exercises shaped to make one gaze inward, wonder, imagine and feel.
→ Episode 1: Inner Self (Reflecting On The Self)
→ Episode 2: Inner Self (Recognising The Self)
→ Episode 3: Body (Accessing Restfulness)
→ Episode 4: Inner Self (Identifying Feelings)
Writing • The therapeutic power in learning to make a film together
A collaboration among workers in India showed the power of making and discussing films for sharing life’s inner challenges. A sanitation worker dreams of becoming a lawyer to fight for workers’ rights. A mother imagines sharing her secrets with her child. A woman practises for a difficult conversation. This is the story of Kathi, Kathi, Kaarana, a yet-to-be-released short film narrated and produced by workers from the city of Bangalore and their families. But I’d like to share the story behind this story: one about four working-class families who dreamed of making films and attended a film school to collectively learn, create, and take care of each other.
Zine • Healing room
Drawing on the artist’s personal story of migration, illness, and recovery, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven centered the need for care and healing, particularly for the undocumented and cancer communities of which Guadalupe Maravilla is a part. The exhibition featured new sculptures, retablo paintings, tripa chuca drawings, and sound works, as well as a Healing Room, a community space for collective care designed by teen staff. The teen staff also created a Zine that was displayed in the Healing Room
→ Interviews with teens about the healing room
→ Video presentation
→ Zine
Writing • Under the mkone tree
When Priya Basil returned to Kenya, where she grew up, she found biomedicine and traditional medicine in conversation about mental health.
Urban Investigation • Bronx Be Well
In the summer of 2021, CUP, Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas, and students from the Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School collaborated to investigate the relationship between poverty and mental health in the neighborhood where their school is located in the Bronx. Students explored the issue through digital filmmaking, creating stop-motion animations, surveying community members, and interviewing stakeholders and decision makers. The group gathered what they learned and created a short documentary film that explores how poverty impacts mental health.
Film • Berlin Conversations on Mental Health
In the summer 2022, we talked to 23 people in Berlin and asked them about their understanding of mental health. For us, addressing mental health was a way of investigating the fundamental aspects of living together. We especially wanted to learn about how mental health relates to social inequalities in the city. In this online film, you can explore what people answered to the question: In your wildest dreams, how would you imagine the future of mental health in Berlin?
Virtual Reality Tour • The Ultimate Sleeping Place
The film and virtual reality tour offer an opportunity to immerse yourself in the ultimate sleeping places and their surroundings. Developed by the Urban Investigation Project’s Japanese architecture team, the project focuses on creating “ultimate sleeping spaces.” The virtual reality tour allows you to explore these spaces, which were conceptualized by the team's youth members. YOKOMI Kenichi, one of the youth participants, crafted the VR experience using meticulously handcrafted maquettes and drawings representing their envisioned ultimate sleeping places.
Audio testimonies • Voices of the women from Lingarajapuram
This audio piece is part of the installation Nanna Langa (my skirt) by Indu Antony, that was produced in collaboration with women from Lingarajapuram. The work draws from the central idea of Namma Katte - a space of solidarity where the women of the Lingarajapuram come together to embroider their stories. You can listen to some of the stories here (in Urdu, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu) or read the transcripts in English.
Interview • Reflection on Mindscapes Tokyo
Mindscapes Tokyo which began its initiatives in 2022, has engaged people from various backgrounds in two projects: the “Urban Investigation Project” and “Convening.” Through these projects, participants have been engaging in dialogues and deepening discussions about mental health. As a culmination of these efforts, an event titled Mindscapes Tokyo Week was held in February 2023. What does mental health mean from a cultural and artistic perspective? KIKUCHI, the artist leading inVisible, shares insights into the project's progress and the emerging themes and challenges for the future.
Audio • Oppari, a folk eulogy, from the artwork Us
This oppari, a folk eulogy and form of lamenting, accompanied Indu Anthony’s artwork Us. Antony commemorates the death of women who could not be mourned, whose stories were left unacknowledged and whose presence left forgotten. Us is an invitation to hold space for each other, to remember and to share. In some communities of Lingarajapuram, the passing away of women is accompanied by silencing the causes of their death. This leaves little time and space for families to grieve their demise. Indu Antony creates this work as a memorial to honour such women from the community, whose stories have been ignored. You can listen to the oppari here, or read the transcript in English.
Film • Do you consider yourself to be normal?
“Do you consider yourself to be normal?” is an interview film about “being normal” that the youth investigators from the Urban Investigation Project conducted with the people they care about. “Film while looking into each other's eyes, at a distance where we can touch each other, with feelings of care and consideration for each other.” Based on these rules, the youth investigators captured their precious individuals in a one-on-one setting. The footage taken at such close proximity reflects not only the subjects but also the presence of the youth as the videographers. Through the genuine gaze of these teenage investigators, directed towards a single individual, various aspects of 'being normal' are portrayed, prompting new inquiries and offering insights into the society that defines what is deemed ‘normal.’
Film • The Laundromat Project “Collective Recovery” programming
Founded in 2005, The Laundromat Project (The LP) is a Black-rooted and POC (People of Colour)-centered community-based arts organisation that advances artists and neighbours as change agents in their own communities. The LP’s Mindscapes programming in Bedford-Stuyvestant, Brooklyn, centered on community wellbeing and mental health through the methodology of “Collective Recovery” developed by Dr. Mindy Fullilove and her colleagues at University of Orange during the Covid-19 pandemic. It included a series of story circles, a window commission, and outdoor art-making events, providing a space for neighbors to process, connect, and build community cohesion in the wake of the pandemic. A film was also created as part of Mindscapes to document and share this programming with wider communities.
Booklet • Resonance from the Neighbourhood
Personal and professional experiences on mental health from participants located in the neighbourhood around the Gropius Bau were exchanged and collected at regular meetings held over several months. You can find some outcomes of the conversations in the little booklet, that was part of the Resonance Room.
Booklet • Theory of the Ultimate Sleeping Place
The Japanese architecture team for the Urban Investigation Project, which focused on the theme of creating the “Ultimate Sleeping Place,” arrived at the conclusion through their research that it is not about extravagance. Instead, they believe that each individual possesses a unique idea for a space that constitutes their “Ultimate Sleeping Place.” This work, titled “The Theory of Ultimate Sleeping Place,” compiles the drawings of the nine investigators’ respective ultimate sleeping places, as well as their discourse on the subject.
The booklet was edited and designed by one of the investigators, LEE Yubin, and the opening statement, written by the lead investigator HAYASHI Takatsune (architect/carpenter), has been translated into English.
Writing • People not professionals by Arjun Kapoor and Jasmine Kalha
Training individuals to support one another through difficult times is a profound step forward in our mental health crisis. (Image credit: drawing by Ivvy Chen)
Interactive Installation • Cloud Swing
Cloud Swing, designed by Isometric Studio, is an accessible swing set that is a powerful statement of inclusion and childlike wonder. Five swings are suspended from a curvilinear cloud, and two of the swings are especially fabricated with foldable ramps for wheelchair users. Cloud Swing is designed to inspire a world where public art and play invite and include people of all abilities. Cloud Swing was designed by Isometric Studio and fabricated by Serett Metalworks. It opened to the public at Grounds for Sculpture in October 2023.
Writing • Reasons to be cheerful / The Great Recovery
The series “The Great Recovery. Stories about the new ideas and approaches improving our mental health systems”, commissioned by Mindscapes, examined how a surge in innovation, outreach, access and attention to equity is improving our mental health systems.
Conversation • Confronting Climate Grief in Fiction. New York Public Library. September 21, 2023
Writers whose novels and stories have crossed the intersection of climate change and mental health asked whether fiction can have a meaningful impact on how we handle the climate crisis. The climate crisis and mental health have figured into the novels or stories of Akil Kumarasamy, Sam J. Miller, and Nathaniel Rich. Speaking with Mary Annaïse Heglar, they discussed the responsibilities that storytellers do or don’t have to center our most dire global challenge, and how they respect both the big picture narratives of climate change and the individual stories of mental and physical health within them—and what kind of change can we reasonably expect their work to help induce. (Organized by LIVE from NYPL)
