8. The Embassy of the North Sea with Christiane Bosman
Release Date: 11/20/2025
8. The Embassy of the North Sea with Christiane Bosman
On the Rights of Nature
In this episode, Christiane Bosman presents the Embassy of the North Sea. She talks about how the sea is often seen as empty space, where human activity can take place. Through using the frame of an embassy, she often gets access to spaces to represent the interests of the North Sea that would otherwise not be available. The Embassy began as an art project, which turned out to be a constructive point of access. The creative and wild perspective brought by art paved the way for deeper conversations and ways forward. Christiane also reports from the Confluence of European Waterbodies, recently...
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7. Art and Artificial Intelligence speaking for Nature with Nonhuman Nonsense
On the Rights of Nature
Nonhuman Nonsense is a research-driven art and design collective working in the realm of social dreaming and world-making. Their projects engage with the nonhuman: animals, objects, ecology, technology, and the spectres between and beyond categories. Nonhuman Nonsense sees nonsense as an antidote to “common sense” – embracing paradoxical stories to explore the ethical and metaphysical layers of our relationship with the (nonhuman) world. In this conversation with Leo Fidjeland and Linnea Våglund of Nonhuman Nonsense we discuss the role of art in speaking for nature and how the...
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6. Rights of nature in Constitutional law - Hugo Echeverria
On the Rights of Nature
Hugo Echeverria is an attorney who has worked in environmental law since 2001, with an emphasis on biodiversity conservation, the environmental rule of law, and the rights of nature. He is a member of the UN Harmony with Nature, as well as the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. Ecuador is the first, and still the only, country on the planet to recognize rights of nature in the constitution. Hugo has worked on a variety of cases to enforce this provision, contributing to some of the world’s first jurisprudence on rights of nature. We talk about how it became possible for nature to...
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5. Rights of Nature in the Philippines - Yolanda Esguerra
On the Rights of Nature
Yolanda Esguerra is a passionate environmental and social justice advocate from the Philippines. She is a leading voice in the movement to integrate ecological justice into Philippine legal and social systems, the National Coordinator of the Philippine Misereor Partnership Inc, a network of over 230 civil society organizations and church groups which is the leader of the RoN movement in the Philippines. She has represented the Philippines in international forums, including the International Rights of Nature Tribunal. Our conversation is held shortly after the passing of Pope Francis and...
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4. Fire law and Caring for Country - Oliver Costello
On the Rights of Nature
Oliver Costello is a First Nations man from Bundjalung Country, now known as the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia. He has a diverse range of personal and professional expertise in culturally connected stewardship. Oliver has extensive experience working within Indigenous land and sea management and conservation and has been particularly interested in empowering Aboriginal perspectives on fire, water, as well as threatened and culturally significant species. He established the original Firesticks initiative which lead to the foundations of Firesticks Alliance and many other...
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3. Ecological jurisprudence as a quantum leap of law - Alessandro Pelizzon
On the Rights of Nature
Alessandro Pelizzon is associate professor in the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. He has been part of the movement for rights of nature since its inception as a co-founder of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, the current chair of GARN’s Academic Hub, and an expert member of the UN Harmony with Nature programme. Alessandros classical education has led him to go far back in time to find the legal and philosophical roots of the norms and perceptions we navigate today, something he eloquently develops in his new book . The book is open...
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2. Mar Menor, first case of legal personhood in Europe - Eduardo Salazar Ortuño
On the Rights of Nature
Eduardo Salazar Ortuño is an environmental lawyer. Together with professor of law Teresa Vicente Giménez, he supported the salt water lagoon Mar Menor in Spain to attain legal personhood, as the first ecosystem in Europe. Eduardo has been practicing environmental law for 20 years. He is an expert on the Aarhus Convention, which empowers citizens and NGOs to defend the environment using access to information, public participation, and access to justice. Eduardo talks us through the process of getting the legal subjectivity of Mar Menor acknowledged and the importance of leadership from...
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1. An academics way to Rights of Nature - Craig M. Kauffman
On the Rights of Nature
Craig Kauffman is a professor of political science at the University of Oregon and author of the book The Politics of Rights of Nature together with Pamela L Martin. Craig is one of the first academics to engage with the rights of nature. He gives an overview of how rights of nature frameworks started to emerge simultaneously in different parts of the world as a response from common pressures that communities were facing, where they experienced how the law did not protect them or their lands. Craig has been part of developing the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor (https://ecojurisprudence.org/), a...
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Introduction to On the Rights of Nature with Pella Thiel
On the Rights of Nature
Welcome to On the Rights of Nature! In this podcast we will explore the emergence of expanding legal frameworks to include nature; rivers, lakes, mountains and land. We will hear from academics, activists, lawyers and indigenous voices who are doing this profound work. Pella Thiel, ecologist, author and teacher living in Sweden, will be your host. In my view, Rights of nature is a necessary foundation for the transformation we find ourselves in, to orient towards regeneration and peace. With over a decade in this vibrant movement I am delighted for the opportunity to share the exciting...
info_outline In this episode, Christiane Bosman presents the Embassy of the North Sea. She talks about how the sea is often seen as empty space, where human activity can take place. Through using the frame of an embassy, she often gets access to spaces to represent the interests of the North Sea that would otherwise not be available. The Embassy began as an art project, which turned out to be a constructive point of access. The creative and wild perspective brought by art paved the way for deeper conversations and ways forward. Christiane also reports from the Confluence of European Waterbodies, recently held in Amsterdam. A large group of people representing 34 waterbodies - rivers, lakes, glaciers, lagoons, and seas - came together.
Christiane Bosman studied museology, art history and communication management. She has over 15 years of experience in developing, curating and producing cultural interventions in the public domain, with a focus on human non-human relationships since 2019. Previously she worked at SKOR | Foundation Art and Public Domain and TAAK cooperative. As a freelancer she worked for various cultural clients such as Het Nieuwe Instituut (La Biënnale di Venezia and La Triënnale di Milano) and Public Art Amsterdam. At the Embassy of the North Sea she is public programme director since 2019, and Confluence of European Water Bodies lead, a network of over 35 grass roots interdisciplinary collectives all over Europe, working on the legal, cultural and political representation of water. Since June 2023 she is also curator at the Ministry for the Future.
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