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
In this issue, Limn tells climate stories from the inside out.
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
What does it take to air-condition an open-air event?
Are greenhouses the solution to the global food crisis?
How is refrigeration mobilized against fungal life?
How does anxiety become an environmental relationship?
What if skin care is really planetary care?
How does global shipping deliver thermal inequality?
Can bricks be made to breathe?
How do you make sense of an inaccessible interior?
What’s concealed in a frame?
Can we imagine a climate future
inside a giant plastic bag?
How has agrarian crisis transformed the interiors of the Himalayan foothills?
What does the enclosure of balconies say about climate, class, and caste?
What’s it like to be a working-class woman in a hot city?