Ingeborg Reichle will join the launch of the NaturArchy catalogue (two volumes) at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria on September 11, 2026 (16:30-18 pm). The editors of the publication Caterina Benincasa, Adriaan Eeckels, Ingeborg Reichle, and Claudia Schnugg will present the publication in the context of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. This amazing publication is emerging from two years of transdisciplinary and experimental sci-art collaboration at the intersection of art, science, and policy making and evolved within the framework of the art-science project of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. NaturArchy brings together artists, scientists and policy makers to explore new relationships between humans and the more-than-human world. Rooted in the idea of a “natural contract,” the project reimagines how societies might recognise the agency, rights and value of nature beyond an anthropocentric worldview. Inspired in part by the legacy of Michel Serres’ The Natural Contract, NaturArchy engages with contemporary debates on the Rights of Nature, ecological governance, and new imaginaries for coexistence. At its core, the publication is structured around the 14 artworks commissioned and developed within the NaturArchy project.
How to cite: Benincasa, Caterina, Adriaan Eeckels, Ingeborg Reichle, and Claudia Schnugg, eds. NaturArchy: Towards a Natural Contract. European Union / Quodlibet, 2026.
ISBN 9788822924865
2026, pp. Vol. 1: 390 pp. / vol. 2: 192 pp.
Two paperback volumes, 220 x 220 mm, housed in a slipcase
https://www.quodlibet.it/libro/9788822924865
Volume 1
NaturArchy Definition
Jolita Butkevičienė, Foreword
Adriaan Eeckels, Introduction. Art, Science, Policy and Law
Caterina Benincasa, Ingeborg Reichle, Claudia Schnugg, NaturArchy. A Curatorial Journey
Artworks
Nonhuman Nonsense, C. Cacciatori, Haunted Waters
G. P. Randazzo Mora, Y. Kranidiotis, S. Nester, I. Guerrero, A. Montero Castaño, A. Bernini, Anthos
J. Lynch, I. Mayrhofer-Hufnagl, I. E. M. Ogenstedt, C. Schillaci, Compos[t]ing
C. Cacciatori, S. Coecke, I. Guerrero, S. Vermeylen, J. Woolmore, These Relations are Forever
J. D. Whitman, M. Sarria Pereira de Passos, D. Mehn, J. Ponti, A. Valsesia, Plastic Magnitudes
P. Cain, A. Belward, L. de Felice, M. G. Ceddia, C. Dorador, With Salt and Rocks in Our Veins
K. Bergaust, G. García Sánchez, E. Voukouvalas, Ocean Connections
Y. Kranidiotis, F. Dentener, The Tipping Point
I. Mayrhofer-Hufnagl, A. Belward, E. Rajabiani, Specter[al]s of Nature
C. Charveriat, M. Pevere, I. Penov, D. Vieira, Lament
G. Berger, M. Rama, I. Guerrero, Invisible Seeds
C. Schöning Lam Yong, J. Keimer, Politics in Disguise
M. Wainer, S. Nester, I. Hupont Torres, L. Iglesias Blanco, Synocene
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Volume 2
NaturArchy Definition
Caterina Benincasa, Adriaan Eeckels, Ingeborg Reichle, Claudia Schnugg, A Counterpoint of Multiple Voices for NaturArchy
Adriaan Eeckels, NaturArchy: Forwards to Nature
Nature & Law
David R. Boyd, Rights Revolutions to Save Nature
Michele D’Addetta, Challenging Environmental and Legal Anthropocentrism
Jojo Mehta, Ecocide Law: Exposing Participation, Transposing Truth, Creating Reality
Anna Berti Suman, The Turn to Sensing: Civic Environmental Monitoring as an Act of Care and Resistance
Saskia Vermeylen, Re-imagining the Relation Between Law and Nature: Lessons Learned from NaturArchy
Nature, Activism & Artistic Approaches
Kumi Naidoo, Artivism Against Climate Change
Paolo Cirio, My Work on Climate Change
Andrea Conte, NaturArchy, a Nature-Based Planetary Model
Science, Art, Governance
Roger Strand, Lorenzo Benini, Ana Jesus, Governance in Complexity: Being like Water
Alan Belward, New Views of Earth’s Ever-Changing Surface Waters
Mario Scharfbillig, The Role of Values for NaturArchy. A Reflection Based on the Personal Values Model
Lucía Iglesias Blanco, Natura 2000—the EU Network of Protected Areas
M. Graziano Ceddia, Capital Accumulation and Global Environmental Change: a Call for Radical Transformation
Philosophical Reflections & Outlook
Ariane Koek, Dis/Entangling: Towards an Ecology of Being
María Antonia González Valerio, Intersecting Visions: Philosophy, Biology, and Art in an Age of Genetic Exploration and Environmental Crisis
Chus Martínez, Lubitsch and the Oceans
Christopher Watkin, The Construction of Nature in the Western Tradition
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
