MONASS PUBLICATIONS
Symposium Proceedings
Bremner, L. and Cook, J. (eds.). (2020). Monsoon [+ other] Grounds. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Online version available here: Monsoon [+ other] Grounds_Online or purchase a hard copy from online stores.
Bremner, L. (ed.). (2019). Monsoon [+ other] Waters. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Online version available here: Monsoon[+other]Waters or purchase a hard copy from online stores.
Bremner, L. and Trower, G. (eds.). (2017). Monsoon [+ other] Airs. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Online version available here: Monsoon [+other] Airs or purchase a hard copy from online stores.
Studio Broadsheets
EVENTS ORGANISED
Book Launch, Monsoon as Method: Assembling Monsoonal Multiplicities, 8 June 2022. Event recording here.
Monsoon Assemblages Public Events Programme, 4 – 29 March 2021. Event recordings here.
- Monsoonal Multiplicities Exhibition Opening, 4 March.
- Practicing Architecture Otherwise Panel Discussion, 11 March.
- East India Dock Online Walking Tour, 13 March.
- How is London a Monsoonal City? Artists Residency Workshop, 18 March.
- Cultures of Climate Change Workshop, 25 March.
- Monsoonal Multiplicities Closing Event, 29 March.
- Monsoon Assemblages artists Residency, 04 – 18 March. Films produced here.
Monsoon [+ other] Grounds Symposium, 21,22 March 2019. Event recordings here.
Monsoon [+ other] Waters Symposium, 12,13 April 2018. Event recordings here.
Monsoon [+ other] Airs Symposium, 21, 22 April 2017. Event recordings here.
Monsoon Assemblages Launch, 2016. Event recording here.
EXHIBITIONS
Monsoon Assemblages and Manifest Data Lab (2022). ‘Planetary Multiplicities,’ Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins, 5-30 April. Media coverage here.
Monsoon Assemblages (2021). ‘Cartographies of the Monsoon,’ Gallery Café, Regents Street, London, 18 Oct – 15 Nov.
Monsoon Assemblages with Office of Experiments (2021). ‘Between the Dragonfly and the Barometer,’ How Will We Live Together?, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, 22 May – 29 Nov. Media coverage here.
Monsoon Assemblages, Cane J. and Hayes, A. (2021) ‘Monsoonal Multiplicities, online exhibition, launched 04 March, ongoing, http://exhibition.monass.org.
Monsoon Assemblages. (2019). ‘Emergent and Erratic: Monsoonal Transmogrification of Land, Air and Sea,’ Broken Nature, XXII Milan Triennale, 1 March – 30 Sept.
PUBLICATIONS
Cullen, B. (2023). ‘Changing Monsoonal Waterworlds: Sensing Delta Volatility through Hilsa Fish.’ Social Anthropology, online open access here: https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2023.04132304
Geros, C. (2023). ‘The Architecture of Weather’ #1 ‘Have you seen the weather,’ #2 ‘Heat Matters,’ #3 ‘Water Weight,’ #4 ‘Occupations Unseen.’ KoozArch 6 – 27 February, online open access here: https://www.koozarch.com/
Bremner, L., Bhat, H., Cook, J., Cullen, B., Geros, C.L., Powis, A. with a foreword by Coelho, K. (2021). Monsoon As Method: Assembling Monsoonal Multiplicities, Barcelona, Actar Publishers.
Bhat, H. (2022). ‘Stickiness in a Monsoon Air Methodology.’ In: Bubandt, N., Oberborbeck Andersen, A., and Cypher, R. (eds.), Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Curiosity, Collaboration, and Critical Description in the Study of Multispecies Worlds, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Bremner, L. (2022). ‘Monsoonal Solidarity: A Global Approach to Climate Justice.’ AD Green New Deal Landscapes, London, Wiley, pp. 104-111.
2021 GeoHumanities Monsoon Assemblages Forum
Bremner, L. (2021). ‘Introduction: Thinking with the Monsoon.’ Geohumanities, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-5, online open access here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2373566X.2021.1922091
Bhat, H. (2021). ‘Emergence in the Breakdown of Categories: Becoming the Monsoon Forest.’ Geohumanities, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 6-23, online open access here: https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2021.1904786
Bremner, L. (2020). ‘Sedimentary Ways.’ Geohumanities, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 24-43, online open access here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2373566X.2020.1799718
Geros, C. L. (2021). ‘Drinking the Winds: Monsoon as Atmospheric Spring.’ Geohumanities, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 65-88, online open access here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2373566X.2021.1929384
Powis, A. (2021). ‘The Relational Materiality of groundwater.’ Geohumanities, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 89-112, online open access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2373566X.2021.1925574
Cullen, B. (2020). ‘Intuiting a Monsoonal Ethnography in Three Bay of Bengal Cities.’ Geohumanities, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 148-163, online open access here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2373566X.2020.1798800
Other 2021
Bremner, L. (2021). Editorial. ‘Weathering, Weathermaking.’ e-flux Architecture, ‘Survivance,’ June. Online Open Access here: https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/survivance/397842/editorial-weathering-weathermaking/
Bremner, L. and Cullen, B. (2021). ‘Jade Urbanism.’ e-flux Architecture, ‘Accumulation,’ March. Online Open Access here: https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/accumulation/378157/jade-urbanism/
Bremner, L., Cook, J. and Cullen, B, with White, N., Kearney, E. and Thompson, B. (2021). ‘Between the Dragonfly and the Barometer: Living Borders in a Changing Monsoon Climate.’ In: Sarkis, H. (ed.), Biennale Architettura 2021: How Will We Live Together?, Milan, Silvana, pp. 264-265.
Bhat, H. (2021). ‘The Weather is Always a Method.’ In: Chandler, D., Muller, F. and Rothe, D. (eds.), International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 407-424.
Cullen, B. (2021). ‘Bangla bricks: constellations of monsoonal mobilities.’ In: Barry, K., Borovnik, M. and Edensor, T. (eds.), Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects, London and New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 186-206.
2020
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
Powis, A. (2020). ‘An excess of thought, or the thinking materials of research.’ Hyphen 2. Online Open Access here: http://hy-phen.space/journal/issue-2/powis-an-excess-of-thought/
Cullen, B. (2020). ‘Constellations of weathering: following the meteorological mobilities of Bangla bricks.’ Mobilities. Online Open Access here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2020.1759929
Bremner, L. (2020). ‘Sedimentary logics and the Rohingya Refugee camps in Bangladesh.’ Political Geography 77. Online Open Access here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102109
2019
Bremner, L. (2019). ‘Planning the 2015 Chennai Floods.’ Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. Online Open Access here: https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619880130
Bremner, L., Geros, C. and Cook, J. (2019). ‘Emergent and Erratic: Monsoonal Transmogrification of Land, Air and Sea.’ In Antonelli, P. and Tannir, A. (eds.). Broken Nature, XXII Milan Triennale, 106-107. Milan: Electa.
Cullen, B. (2019). ‘Haunted Landscapes: Ghosts of Chennai Past, Present and Future Yet-to- Come.” In Bremner, L. (ed.). Monsoon [+ other] Waters, 185-197. London: Monsoon Assemblages.
Bhat, H. (2019). ‘Malhar’ Theorising the Contemporary. Fieldsights, June 27 https://culanth.org/fieldsights/malhar
Bhat, H. (2019). ‘As I sit down to write a monsoon story without cloud bands – some mucus, confrontation and sadness.’ Hyphen Journal 1. http://www.hy-phen.space/journal/issue_1/
2018
Bhat, H. (2018). ‘About terms and conditions – the Aadhar biometric identification programme as a mapping analytic.’ In Bargues-Pedreny, P, Chandler, D. and Simon, E. (eds.). Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age, 102-117. London: Routledge.
Bhat, H (2018). ‘Over skies of extraction.’ In Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. and Mubi Brighenti, A (eds.). Lo Squaderno, Explorations in Space and Society 48 (Surfaces and Materials): 23 – 26, http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/?p=1835.
2017
Bhat, H (2017). ‘Because the lake burns.’ In Bremner, L. and Trower, G. (eds.). Monsoon [+ other] Airs, 77-84. London: Monsoon Assemblages.
Bremner, L. (2017). ‘On Monsoon Assemblages.’ Interview with Damaso Randulfe. Migrant 3: 90-99.
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2022
Bremner, L. (2022). ‘Monsoon as Method,’ At: School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) Conversations, Mumbai, 1 July. Event recording here.
Bremner, L. (2022). ‘Monsoon as Method,’ At: Designing for BioCities Competition Lecture Series, Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, 7 April.
Bremner, L. (2022). ‘Monsoon as Method,’ Transitional Territories Public Lecture Series, TU Delft, 10 February.
2021
Bremner, L. (2021). ‘Monsoon as Method,’ At: Never the Right Time Lecture Series, International Design and Architecture Program, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 23 November.
Cullen, B. (2021) ‘Sensing volatility through hilsa fish.’ At: Conceptualizing Volatility Roundtable, organised by Sandro Simon (Virtual), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 17 November.
Bhat, H. (2021). ‘On Monsoonal Knowledge.’ At: Coloniality, Decoloniality and Extractive Anthropocenes seminar, Virtual, hosted by Dr Marie Petersmann (Tilburg University) and Dr Paul Merchant (University of Bristol), 9 November.
Cook, J. (2021). ‘Gallery Talk.’ At: Monsoonal Cartographies Exhibition, Gallery Cafe, W1B 2HW, London, 1 November.
Bhat, H. (2021). ‘De____________ or what is to be done with hope?.’ At: 14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: The Power Politics of Nature, Virtual, 13 – 17 September.
Bhat, H. (2021). ‘Re-reading circulation through inundation.’ At: 14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: The Power Politics of Nature, Virtual, 13 – 17 September.
Bhat, H. (2021). ‘The beaches of the El Nino [Critical Beach Studies in the Anthropocene with Katja Freistein and Farai Chipato].’ At: International Small Islands Studies Association 2021 Conference: Sharing Lessons, Sharing Stories, Online/Hosted by Harris Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 17 June.
Bremner, L. ‘Architects Beyond Architecture,’ RIBA Architecture Anew Series, 15 June.
Bhat, H. (2021). ‘The Weather is Always a Method.’ At: Teaching International Relations in the Anthropocene: Roundtable, Online/EISA, 15 April.
Bremner, L. Respondent at ‘Seminar 3: Intertidal City,’ Inhabited Sea Project, 24 March 2021 <https://www.inhabitedsea.org/events/seminar-3-intertidal-plasticity>
Bremner, L. ‘Monsoonal Multiplicities.’ At: Climate Change Practices Symposium, The Bartlett, UCL, 16 March 2021 <https://vimeo.com/529017472>
Cullen, B. ‘Bangla Bricks: Constellations of Monsoonal Mobilities.’ At: Weather: Spaces Mobilities & Affects, virtual discussion event and book launch, 10 February 2021.
2020
Bhat, H. (2020). ‘Tropical meteorology and its reimagining of the colonial archive.’ At: Millennium Conference – Entanglements and Detachments in Global Politics, Online/LSE, 22 – 24 October.
Bhat, H. (2020). ‘The monsoon and the possibility of time.’ At: The third biennial conference of the Political Ecology Network (Pollen) – Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration, Online/POLLEN, 22 – 25 September.
Bremner, L. (2020). ‘Climate as Grounds for Design.’ At: Architects Climate Action Network, ‘Educators Climate Crisis Workshop 2 – Brief Writing’, 09 September 2020 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuD-tAGbFk>
2019
Bhat, H. (2019). ‘Acknowledging the Monsoon.’ At: Imagining the Eco-social postgraduate workshop with Jane Bennett and William Connolly, Cardiff University, 10 – 11 December.
Bremner, L. (2019). ‘On Monsoon as Method.’ Urban Studies Seminar Series, University of Glasgow, 05 December.
Bremner, L. (2019). Invited Participant, Delta and River Cities Workshop, World Projects and Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes, Columbia University, New York, 22 – 23 November.
Bremner, L. (2019). ‘On Monsoon as Method.’ Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, 20 November.
Bremner, L. (2019). ‘On Monsoon as Method.’ WISER, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 October.
Bhat, H. and Zehner, B. (2019). ‘Cyclones and the Monsoon’ At: HAT Research Center, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, 15 November.
Cook, J. (2019). ‘Air, Architecture + Other Climates, Investigating and Drawing with Data.’ AHO The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 15 November.
Cook, J. (2019). ‘Monsoon Assemblages : Chennai.’ At: Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), 14 November.
Bhat, H. in conversation with Tamlit, A. (2019). ‘On Grow Heathrow’ At: Politics of Air – Air Matters Symposium, Watermans Art Centre, 9 November.
Bremner, L. (2019). ‘On Monsoon as Method.’ Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research, Univesrity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 October.
Bhat, H. (2019). ‘Methodologies within the Monsoon.’ At: Millennium Conference – Extraction, expropriation, erasure? Knowledge production in International Relations, London, 19-20 October.
Cullen, B. (2019) ‘Haunted hydrological landscapes: Ghosts of Chennai past, present and future yet-to-come.’ At: Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, London, 27 – 30 August.
Bhat, H. (2019). ‘Circulating stories of the air.’ At: Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, London, 27 – 30 August.
Bhat, H. (2019). ‘Notes on a Monsoon Air Methodology.’ At: OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, 02 August.
Bhat, H. (2019). ‘Notes on a Monsoon Air Methodology.’ At: Centre for Policy Research, Delhi, 18 July.
Bhat, H. (2019). ‘The Monsoon as a Political Air.’ At: Resilience and Hope in a World in Relation – European Workshop on International Relations, Krakow, 26 – 29 June.
Powis, A. (2019) ‘The materiality of Groundwater in the Chennai rainwater harvesting programme II.’ At: Urban Climates: Power, Development and Environment in South Asia Symposium, University of Cambridge, 07 – 08 June.
Bhat, H. (2019). ‘Entanglements of the kikar and the dust storm.’ At: Urban Climates: Power, Development and Environment in South Asia Symposium, University of Cambridge, 07 – 08 June.
Cullen, B. (2019) ‘Introducing Monsoon Assemblages.’ At: Participatory Steering of Complex Adaptive Systems Workshop, Synthesis Center, Arizona State University, 23 – 26 April.
Powis, A. (2019). ‘The Materiality of Groundwater in the Chennai rainwater harvesting programme I.’ At American Association of Geographers Conference (AAG), Washington DC, 03 – 07 April.
Bhat, H. (2019). ‘Fieldwork/Stickiness.’ At: Hyphen Symposium, P3 Ambika, University of Westminster, London, 24 March.
Bhat, H. (2019). ‘About a Monsoon Forest.’ At: Monsoon [+ other] Grounds Symposium, University of Westminster, 21 – 22 March.
Bremner, L. (2019). ‘On Sediment as Method.’ At: Monsoon [+ other] Grounds Symposium, University of Westminster, 21 – 22 March.
Cullen, B. (2019). ‘Bangla Bricks: Making and unmaking monsoon grounds.’ At: Monsoon [+ other] Grounds Symposium, University of Westminster, 21 – 22 March.
Geros, C. (2019). ‘Here be Dragons: Grounds and Groundings of our Atmospheric Belonging.’ At: Monsoon [+ other] Grounds Symposium, University of Westminster, 21 – 22 March.
Powis, A. (2019). ‘The Materiality of Groundwater: leaking, Seeping, Swelling, Cracking.’ At: Monsoon [+ other] Grounds Symposium, University of Westminster, 21 – 22 March.
Bremner, L. (2019). ‘On Monsoon Assemblages.’ At: MA Environmental Architecture, Royal College of Art, 14 March.
Geros, C. and Cook, J. (2019). ‘Emergent and Erratic: Monsoonal Transmogrification of Land, Air and Sea.’ At: Broken Nature, XXII Milan Triennale, 01 March – 01 September.
Cullen, B. (2019) ‘The fish, the delta and the monsoon: storying Hilsa ecologies.’ At: Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices, Linnæus University, Sweden, 23 – 25 January.
Bhat, H. (2019) ‘6 acts about a monsoon forest and some notes about mucus.’ At: Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices, Linnæus University, Sweden, 23 – 25 January.
Bremner, L. (2019). ‘Humanitarian Sediments.’ At: Goldsmiths Visual Culture Series, 28 February; ‘Testimony as Environment, Violence, Aesthetics, Agency,’ London School of Economics, 18-20 January; Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, 16 January.
2018
Bhat, H. (2018). ‘A short story of a monsoon air methodology – wet shoes with no rain’. At: Rubber Boots Methods in the Anthropocene, Aarhus University/Moesgaard Museum, 26 – 27 November.
Bremner, L. (2018). ‘Sedimentary Humanitarianism.’ At: Architecture Research Forum, University of Westminster, 22 November.
Bhat, H. (2018). ‘In an air of material complicity’. At: 12th Pan European Conference on International Relations, Prague, 12 – 15 September.
Bremner, L. (2018). ‘Bad Planning and the 2015 Chennai Floods.’ At: Royal Geography Society Conference, Cardiff University, 28-31 August.
Bhat, H. (2018). ‘Over skies of extraction.’ At: London Critical, University of Westminster, 29-30 June.
Powis, A. (2018). ‘The materiality of groundwater in the construction of the Chennai Metro.’ At Going Underground: Design, Reputation, and Disorder in the Subterranean Infrastructure of the Global City. Birkbeck, University of London, 18 May
Cullen, B. and Geros, C. (2018). ‘Between the Dragonfly and the Barometer: Knowing Weather, Constructing Climate.’ At: Asian Extremes Conference: Climate, Meteorology and Disaster in History, University of Singapore, 17-18 May.
Bhat, H. (2018). ‘Monsoonal Methodologies.’ At: Politics of the Machines, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, 15 – 17 May.
Cullen, B. (2018). ‘Eris as Monsoon Infrastructure: Re-imagining Chennai’s rainwater tanks.’ At: Monsoon [+ other] Waters Symposium, University of Westminster, 12 – 13 April.
Bhat, H. (2018). ‘About terms and conditions.’ At: Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, 8 – 9 January.
2017
Bhat, H. (2017). ‘Of the agricultural industrialisation of the skies.’ At: Knowledge/Cultures/Ecologies 2017, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile, 15-18 November.
Bhat, H. (2017). ‘In an air of complicity’. At: 2017 Annual Millennium Conference : The politics of time in international relations. At: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 21-22 October.
Bhat, H. (2017), ‘Immaterial Networks’. At: Mapping, Mercator and Modernity : The Impact of the Digital, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, 25-26 April.
Bhat, H. (2017), ‘Complicit Unknowns’. At: Monsoon [+other] Airs, University of Westminster, 20-21 April.
Bremner, L. (2017). ‘Academic Exchange Seminar.’ At: Khulna University, Bangladesh, 09 November.
Bremner, L. (2017). ‘Monsoon Assemblages Seminar.’ At: Bengal Institute of Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements, Dhaka, 05 November.
Bremner, L. (2017). ‘Monsoon Assemblages.’ At: Chennai Architecture Foundation, 25 July.
Cullen, B. (2017). ‘Moderating the monsoon in South Chennai’ At: Bringing Climate Change Home: Researching Weathered Society Workshop. University of Edinburgh, 15 September.
Cullen, B. (2017). ‘A Rope to Tie a Lion: Participatory video and dilemmas in processes of “giving voice”.’ At: Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 28 March-01 April.
Powis, A. (2017). ‘Making and Unmaking Wet Cities: Two examples in London and Chennai.’ At: Making and Unmaking the Environment, Design History Society Annual Conference, University of Oslo, 7-9 September.
Powis, A. (2017). ‘Fluvial City – Reading Chennai through Groundwater.’ At: Idea of Self in Research, 3rd PhD By Design Conference, University of Sheffield, 3-4 April.
LITERATURE REVIEWS
Vianello, M. (2017). Elements of the Urban Hydrology of South Chennai. OV_Vianello_2017A
Bremner, L. (2016). The Chennai IT Corridor. OB_Bremner_2016A
Cullen, B. (2016). Pallikaranai Marsh, Chennai. OC_Cullen_2016A