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No. 12
Climate’s Interiors
Published June, 2025
https://doi.org/10.70312/LIMN.12

We tend to think about climate solutions from the exterior. Mitigating emissions, climate-proofing crops, erecting solar panels and windmills. But what happens when we shift our perspective? What if we think of climate change from inside cells, bodies, buildings, and systems? This issue of Limn takes the interior as a counterintuitive starting point for thinking about planetary change. Our proposition: Thinking from the interior fundamentally shifts how we understand our warming world and, crucially, the stories we tell about it.

Cover image: Marja Pirilä, Speaking House #8, 2006

In This Issue

Preface: The Impossible Interior

In this issue, Limn tells climate stories from the inside out.

Alex Nading
Sarah Besky
Jason Cons
Narrating the Inside

That was the brief: go to Kolkata and see if you can find the climate story. That’s pretty much what I do.
—Anant Gupta

Anant Gupta
The Art of Enclosure

What does it take to air-condition an open-air event?

Jiat-Hwee Chang
Sharad Pandian
The Interior Frontier

Are greenhouses the solution to the global food crisis?

Rebeca Ibáñez Martín
Mold Chains

How is refrigeration mobilized against fungal life?

Jamie Cross
Climate in My Mind

How does anxiety become an environmental relationship?

Julie Livingston
Skin Deep

What if skin care is really planetary care?

Alex Nading
Twilight Shift

How does global shipping deliver thermal inequality?

Bharat Jayram Venkat
The Architecture of Vector Control

Can bricks be made to breathe?

Elizabeth L. McCormick
Ann H. Kelly
Ibrahim Msuya
Under the Surface

How do you make sense of an inaccessible interior?

Andrea Ballestero
Apertures all the Way Down

What’s concealed in a frame?

Emma Pask
Emily Lee
Middling Worlds

Can we imagine a climate future
inside a giant plastic bag?

Javier Lezaun
Escape to the Country

How has agrarian crisis transformed the interiors of the Himalayan foothills?

Sarah Besky
Yojak Tamang
Disappearing Balconies

What does the enclosure of balconies say about climate, class, and caste?

Llerena G. Searle
Behind the Purdah

What’s it like to be a working-class woman in a hot city?

Ankur Writers Collective
Amita Baviskar