Climate change as paradigm shift | Environment 2.0

Climate change as paradigm shift

Things sometimes happen which change forever the condition of being alive in a particular era. Why is it, that such events, for all our scenario planning, visualising, mapping and data mining techniques, are so unpredictable?

10.30 hrs: Keynote Modest Means: Path of Humility in Climate Gouvernanceby Sheila Jasanoff (Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Havard University),introduced by Saskia Sassen.

13.00 hrs: Discussion with Endre Kiss (professor for history of philosophy at the University Eötvös, Budapest), Lutz Dammbeck (film director and professor at the School for Fine Arts, Dresden) and Victor Nemchinov (photographer and artist, senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences, author of several cross-cultural surveys on the changes in historical consciousness in East European societies), chaired by Rob van Kranenburg.

Environment 2.0

Environment 2.0 seeks to decode the complex relationships between people, nature and technology. A key interest is creative interdisciplinary practice that intervenes in the social processes that shape our relationship to the environment through creative interventions that suggest alternative perspectives on sustainability.

16.00 hrs: Discussion with Andrea Polli (New York based artist, who transforms global weather and air pollution data into mesmerising video and sound installations), Usman Haque (London based artist, who creates responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances) und Jochen Richters (research assistant for climatology at the Institute for Ecology at the Technische Universität of Berlin), chaired by Drew Hemment (director and founder of the Futuresonic Festival of Electronic Music and Media Arts).

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