UEC announces the inaugural cohort for the Hawthorne House – Case Study Residency.

Seventeen years ago, October 11, 2008, I photographed an Eagle Scout troop building the dry arroyo parkway along Arlington Drive, and it changed my life.

All the days that I have lived in Los Angeles can be charted through the spaces that I have occupied, domestic and institutional.

On Sunday, March 30, we hosted a virtual workshop titled Soil Testing for Contaminants, led by Dr. Danielle Stevenson, founder of the Center for Applied Ecological Remediation, and UEC Founder & President, Michelle Matthews. The workshop provided participants with essential protocols for soil contaminant testing, covering key topics such as the importance of testing soil, how to design an effective soil sampling plan, techniques for collecting samples, what contaminants to test for, and how to interpret test results.

Solastalgia is not about looking back to some golden past, nor is it about seeking another place as ‘home’. It is the ‘lived experience’ of the loss of the present as manifest in a feeling of dislocation; of being undermined by forces that destroy the potential for solace to be derived from the present. In short, solastalgia is a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at ‘home’. Glenn Albrecht