Semine Long-Callesen is a researcher, writer, and consultant, born, raised, and based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Semine writes about colonialism, museums and the history of science in Denmark, Malaysia, and Singapore and is the author of Take Root Eat Root (Obra Press 2024), a book about colonial botany in Honduras and Malaysia. Semine is currently affiliated with the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at Copenhagen University. Semine has been a research fellow at MIT, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the architecture practice APRDELESP. As a strategy consultant, Semine has worked within the med tech and pharma spaces at the National Health Service England and ReD Associates. Semine holds a BA in Art History with Distinction from Cambridge University and a MSc in Architecture Studies from MIT.
The loss of a single species is the loss of a whole world
The soul is neither the inner self, the divine, nor the immaterial, as traditional philosophical thinking might argue. Rather, it is that which binds us together: it is relational and environmental, and when a species goes extinct, its soul, and thereby its relations, goes with it.
April 16, 2025
If all minerals are extracted from the soil, will the flowers ever bloom again?
In artist Toshie Takeuchi’s work, she travels from Belgian archives to Congolese mines to expose the long durée trail of destruction that the powerful uranium leaves behind in the imperial — British, American, French, Belgian, German — drive for wealth and power.
March 25, 2025