FUTURE LANDSCAPES

Our landscapes change and with them whole ecosystems reform and grow towards a new nature. A new landscape, a next landscape.







The story is no tale of loss or deconstruction!
It's a story of a new understanding of landscape.
A new language, where humanity is a biological species in a biological world and plastics become a geological kind in a geological world.
Where ecology goes beyond conservation.



This story is a tale of a return to nature! A story of plasticity of randomness of mutation. Of new taxonomies, new sounds, new archeologies. Of language,new language, categories, progress, migrate, open, feel, change, transform, widen, rise, turn, dynamics, inhale, vary, distort, exhale, care, revolt, migrate, welcome, respond, shift, replace,exhale,change,tolerate,revolt,grow,spread,
noise,transform,think,inhale,evolve,evolving breath...

keep on evolving

Where there's been forest, there will be a new word for forest.
Where there've been bees there might be a new word for bees.
Where there've been spring, there will a new word for spring.

Including us into the word for forest.

ABOUT

This webpage will be a living archive of my work related to plastic and plastic pollution. In 2015, I have started working on plastic as a new evolutionary agent on the micro scale and came across a new understanding of nature.

My name is Joana (Nana) MacLean and I am a PhD candidate in Biology at the GFZ German Research Centre in Potsdam. I am also a photographer and a dancer and a curious mind in all of it. I am involved in several projects crossing interdisciplinary borders and using citizen science and DIY biology to create encounters.

Academia
since 2018 : Project "Terrestrial plastisphere"

2015-2018 : Master thesis and research on plastic in the environment

2010-2014 : Bachelor studies Biology at University of Amsterdam

"Once you start allowing yourself to include "plastic" into your concept of nature, culture and geology, you will encounter new solutions to our global plastic pollution. While we are still moaning about our romantic image of the forest and the ocean, others that do understand plastic as substrate for growth and as socio/ecological resource will master this catastrophe.
To me, this step is a crucial one. "

BMBF funded PhD candidate in the Geomicrobiology group at GFZ Potsdam

Pilote study BMBF project at GFZ Potsdam

Projects
since 2018 : (Un)real ecologies @ Art Laboratory Berlin


2018 : Private research visit in Senegal


2017 : Silenscape @ Dark ecologies performance at SPEKTRUM Berlin


2017 : Postcards from future landscapes

Workshop series with artist Kat Austen about urban plastic pollution and DIY Biology

Mixed media art performance, live sounds and spoken words

Film and interviews on plastic pollution and situated solutions