In this second episode of the second season, recorded in February 2025, IHME Helsinki Advisory Board member,Professor at Nanyang Technological University and Founding Director of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Ute Meta Bauer continues her conversation about ecocide as an international crime with artist and researcher Nabil Ahmed. Together with Olga Lucko, Ahmed runs Studio INTERPRT, which uses design and spatial analysis to promote environmental justice and to make Ecocide an international crime. In this conversation Ute and Nabil address INTERPRT’S research on Ecocide and its concerns about cultural loss andaccountability.

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The contemporary-art-commissioning agency ⁠IHME Helsinki⁠ is continuing its collaboration with ⁠Helsinki Open Waves⁠ on new episodes of the Art, Science, Ecology podcast series. The members of the IHME Helsinki Advisory Board are hosting the second season of the podcast, carrying on discussions started in 2021. The new episodes update ideas about ecocide, sustainable energy, and energy identity, and about the role of the arts in all this, topics that are even more urgent today than in 2021.

⁠IHME Helsinki ⁠unites the worlds of art, science, and climate work. We promote the cultural change needed in theenvironmental crisis and motivate citizens to adapt to a life within planetary boundaries. Each year we produce a public artwork and a series of events with international artists and local partners to bring hope amid the environmentalcrises. Our work is made possible by support from the Saastamoinen Foundation, Kone Foundation, and Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation.

Credits:

Producer: Paula Toppila, Saara Moisio

Host and guest: Ute Meta Bauer and NabilAhmed

Sound mixing: Bailey Polkinghorne

IHME jingle: Viljami Valdén