Author Archives: Tsemone Ogbemi

Or: Why Imagination Machine Exists By Tsemone Ogbemi I came up with the idea for Imagination Machine, a newsletter that focuses on work in climate science, art, and activism, in early June. It is a product of the frustrations that I (and I expect many others in the United States) have been experiencing over theContinue reading “Hope is Useful”

What expertise can be brought to bear on the climate crisis? With deep social and ecological impacts, it’s going to take a village… One Beyond the Lab project tackles the role that experts in the imagination can play to solve, or at least mitigate the crisis. This is Imagination Machine, a brand new weekly newsletterContinue reading “Art, science, and climate activism newsletter now live!”

By Tsemone Ogbemi On Monday, June 22, 2020, to mark the year since the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery exploded on June 21, 2019, our collaborative research group, Beyond the Lab, gathered on Zoom to watch Bilal Motley’s documentary, Midnight Oil. Motley was an employee at the PES refinery for thirteen years and was there whenContinue reading “Collective Thread: Midnight Oil by Bilal Motley”