The Warmest Years on Record

an oral history of life on a warming planet

Since 2018, The Warmest Years on Record has collected audio interviews that explore people’s emotional, psychological and sensorial experiences of living in the climate crisis. Through these conversations, we try and answer the question, ‘what does it feel like to live on a rapidly warming planet?’

I invite you to listen in on these conversations. I hope they offer you an opportunity to reflect on your own personal, felt experiences of living in the climate crisis, and together we can better understand how to live in this profound moment of transition.

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Brooklyn Community Gardeners tell their climate stories

In the summer and fall of 2021, I partnered with GreenThumb and interviewed almost 60 community gardeners across 13 Brooklyn community gardens across the borough. These folks reflected not only on how climate change has shown up in their emotional psyches, they also shared hyper-local knowledge about how their growing seasons have changed over the past many decades.

In June 2022, I created an audio installation at community gardens across Brooklyn, that offered the public an opportunity to listen in on these conversations.

Each participating garden hosted a unique sign outside their fence facing the sidewalk. The QR-code linked to audio collages of Brooklyn gardeners thinking on and discussing the questions.

To access all audio collages, you can find the project playlist here

Visit All Thirteen Gardens Sites!

This 2021 round of interviews for The Warmest Years on Record is supported in partnership with NYC Parks GreenThumb and is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC)