Organised as part of the project Circulating Narratives - Entangling Communities: Case Studies in Global Performance Art, Research Area 2: "Travelling Matters". In collaboration with metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin, ZK/U Berlin – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik. Hosted by Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) in Berlin. The number of participants is limited. Please register by 1 December 2023 by emailing Till Rückwart at t.rueckwart@fu-berlin.de. Or join online for the performance lecture by Francesca Panetta at 3:45 pm. Please register here.

This workshop will test methods and investigative tools/mappings to raise awareness of climate resilience through narrative and performative interventions. It brings together academics, artists and activists to develop and introduce new prototypes for knowledge dissemination and display. In three sections: Case Studies in Planetary Agencies, Co-Exploring Current Projects and Case Studies in Storytelling and Interspecies Connections we will explore new strategies of Digital Mapping of Contemporaneity, Activism & Ecology.

The workshop will focus on lectures and discussions as well as transdisciplinary networking, brainstorming and co-exploration activities. Methods of storytelling, fictional archives and the rewriting of social constructs through community building will be presented in the form of knowledge visualizations as effective resiliencies against master narratives in the context of questions of sustainability.

A more detailed overview of the event can be found here.

Organisation by Annette Jael Lehmann, Till Rückwart, Charlotte Hannah Peters (assistant) and Philipp Conrad (assistant).

Programme

Each presentation includes 15 minutes Q&A

10:00 | Annette Jael Lehmann (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020, metaLAB (at) FU Berlin) & Jeffrey Schnapp (Chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature, Founder of metaLAB (at) Harvard): Welcome & Introduction

Case Studies in Planetary Agencies. Moderator: Annette Jael Lehmann

10:15 | Matthias Einhoff (ZK/U Berlin – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik): Planetary Agencies - how art can create a space of agency for non-human stakeholders

10:45 | Stefan Koderisch & Clemens Gruber (ZK/U Berlin – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik): ClimART and GPTree – an emotional and artistic access to climate change to enhance climate resilience

11:45 | Lunch Break (Catering)

Co-Exploring Current Projects. Moderator: Dario Rodighiero (University of Groningen)

12:45 | Giacomo Nanni (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Urban Complexity Lab): Mapping, exploring and sensing infrastructures

13:15 | Till Rückwart (Freie Universität Berlin, metaLAB (at) FU Berlin): Glitches as Storytellers – Symbolic Potential of Errors in Satellite Image Depictions of Climate-Affected Environments

13:45 | Jan Fillies (Freie Universität Berlin): Advancing Hate Speech Detection in Online Communication of Adolescents

14:15 | Short Break (Coffee)

Case Studies in Storytelling and Interspecies Connections. Moderator: Jeffrey Schnapp

14:30 | Kara Oehler (Institute for Climate Sound & Society, Copenhagen, metaLAB (at) Harvard): Decentering Humans: Creating a new institute for climate sound

15:00 | Marie Koldkjær Højlund (Aarhus University): Transductive Wind Music – Sharing the Danish Landscape with Wind Turbines

15:30 | Short Break

15:45 | Performance Lecture (virtual)

Francesca Panetta (AKO Storytelling Institute, University of Arts London): Storytelling for Social Impact: UAL's AKO Storytelling Institute's Mission

16:30 | Wrap-Up & Closing Remarks