Ecological Archives

Archivos Ecologistas (ARCHIECOS) is a subproject of the research projects “Fossil Aesthetics: a political ecology of art history, visual culture and cultural imaginaries of modernity” (PIE 202010E005) and “Energetic Humanities: Energy and socio-cultural imaginaries between the Industrial Revolution and the ecosocial crisis” (PID2020-113272RA-I00, HUMENERGE). ARCHIECOS shows a partial cut of the exhaustive research we have been doing on the documents and images that make up the archives of the environmental movement located in the different geographies of the Spanish territory.
It is an archive of archives in process, which does not aspire to present a complete version of each of these documentary repertoires, but to bring to the public domain and in digital format contextualized fragments of them. And it does so with a double objective: on the one hand, to encourage new research on the history of the environmental movement in Spain, with special emphasis on its visual productions and communication devices. On the other hand, to promote social and institutional interest in the preservation and dissemination of these archives, so that their digital socialization promotes the conservation and consultation of the archives in physical reference sites. In this sense, although several of the archives shown here already enjoy these institutional conditions, in other cases they are dispersed documentary collections, which we have partially recomposed through the research work carried out by the project.