The following is the Introduction to Monsoon as Method, Assembling Monsoonal Multiplicities, the edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, published by Actar in 2022. Introduction: Monsoon as Method Lindsay Bremner This is a book about a global weather system and our intra-actions with it over a five-year research period. It is a reflection on human relationships […]
Lindsay Bremner has been awarded a one-year, €150,000 European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grant for ‘Climate Cartographics,’ a project to test the societal and commercial potential of the cartographic techniques developed during the Monsoon Assemblages project. She and two research fellows will work with the Active Travel Academy, Southwark Borough Council, Trees for […]
We are delighted to announce that the culminating book of the Monsoon Assemblages project, Monsoon as Method: Assembling Monsoonal Multiplicities, is now published. It is available for purchase from the publisher, ACTAR’s website here and will be available from other online bookstores shortly. We will launch Monsoon as Method on line on 8 June, when […]
Monsoon Assemblages is currently exhibiting work alongside Manifest Data Lab in an exhibition titled Planetary Assemblages at the Lethaby Gallery at Central St Martins in London. Both projects visualise geo-physical and atmospheric data as ways of making climate change perceptible. Manifest as drawings, maps, animations, videos and models, the work is saturated with data from […]
The following events were organized and convened by Monsoon Assemblages between 2016 and 2021. Monsoonal Multuplicities Events Programme During March 2021, Monsoon Assemblages convened a series of six online events to co-incide with the launch of the virtual exhibition Monsoonal Multplicities. These events were: Event #1 Monsoonal Multiplicities Exhibition OpeningMonsoonal Multiplicities, the online exhibition by […]
We are thrilled to announce that Volume 7 No. 1 of the Taylor and Francis Journal Geohumanities: Place, Space and the Humanities includes a special Monsoon Assemblages Forum. It comprises contributions from the Monsoon Assemblages researchers and others, all of which were developed from presentations first made at one of the symposia we hosted between […]
On 25th March 2021, Monsoon Assemblages hosted the fifth online event to coincide with the launch of the virtual exhibition, Monsoonal Multiplicities. Titled ‘Cultures of Climate Change,’ the workshop invited guests to think about cities, in many cases, their own cities, as monsoonal life worlds, and of climate change not as something to be fended […]
Edited zoom recordings of the series of events that MONASS organised in March 2021 to co-incide with the launch of its virtual exhibition Monsoonal Multiplicities are now available online. Find them on the Monsoon Assemblages YouTube channel, where you will find a playlist of the recordings here or on the exhibition website here, where they […]
A Programme of Events by Monsoon AssemblagesMarch 04 – March 29, 2021 Bookings for all events here.Attendance is free but requires booking In March 2021, Monsoon Assemblages will host a programme of online events and an artists’ residency in London. The programme will coincide with the opening of the online exhibition Monsoonal Multiplicities, a platform […]
MONASS is pleased to announce that the following publication prepared for a Special Issue of History of Meteorology is now available online: Cullen, B. and Geros, C. (2020). ‘Constructing the Monsoon: Colonial Meteorological Cartography, 1844-1944.’ History of Meteorology. Online Open Access here: https://meteohistory.org/ojs/index.php/journal/article/view/3 The abstract of this paper reads as follows: Meteorological cartographies provide a way of […]