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Caterina Benincasa, Adriaan Eeckels, Ingeborg Reichle, and Claudia Schnugg, eds. NaturArchy: Towards a Natural Contract. European Union / Quodlibet, 2026, two volumes with 582 pages.

This book results from an art-science-policy research project titled NaturArchy. The project brought together artists, scientists and policymakers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre to collaborate and co-create on topics of environmental sustainability, the decolonization of Nature, a just green transition and the Rights of Nature. Developed by JRC SciArt, Centre for Advanced Studies, Directorate for Innovation in Science and Policymaking, Joint Research Centre, European Commission.

Volume 1 Artworks:

With contributions by Caterina Benincasa, Adriaan Eeckels, Ingeborg Reichle, Claudia Schnugg, Celine Charveriat, Nonhuman Nonsense, Caterina Cacciatori, Giovanni Randazzo, Sam Nester, Yiannis Kranidiotis, Alba Bernini, Irene Guerrero Fernandez, Ana Montero Castanyo, Jonah Lynch, Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl, Ingrid Ogenstedt, Calogero Schillaci, Sandra Coecke, Saskia Vermeylen, Jemma Woolmore, JD Whitman, Marisa Sárria Pereira de Passos, Ponti Jessica, Andrea Valsesia, Dora Mehn, Penelope Cain, Alan Belward, luca de felice, Michele Graziano Ceddia, Cristina Dorador, Kristin Bergaust, Guillermo García Sánchez, Evangelos Voukouvalas, Frank Dentener, Elahe Rajabiani, Margherita Pevere, Ivan Penov, Diana Vieira, Gala Berger, Metsa Rama, Claus Schöning, Julian Keimer, Marina Wainer, Isabelle Hupont Torres, and Lucia Iglesias Blanco and Jolita Butkevičienė and Koen Jonkers.

Volume 2 Contributions:

With contributions by David R. Boyd, Michele D'Addetta, Jojo Mehta, Anna Berti Suman, Saskia Vermeylen, Kumi Naidoo, Paolo Cirio, Andrea Conte, Roger Strand, Lorenzo Benini, Ana Jesus, Alan Belward, Mario Scharfbillig, Lucía Iglesias Blanco, M. Graziano Ceddia, Ariane Koek, Maria Antonia Gonzalez Valerio, Chus Martinez, and Christopher Watkin.