Responding to Crises: Interventions for Sustainable Futures – Two days on the climate crisis and alternative ways of thinking and acting – and what we can do ourselves. With participants from initiatives for a new understanding of sustainability and coexistence.
Date: October, 22nd - 23rd 2021
Time: 10.00 - 20.00 Uhr
Location: designtransfer / Berlin Open Lab, Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin
All students are warmly invited to a two-day event, kicking off the winter semester in the framework of the pre-project for a new Einstein Center Climate Change. With lectures, workshops, performances, and installations it‘ll be thought about how each of us can respond to the multifaceted impacts of climate change, and how we can push back politically, artistically, and through design and activism. After all, climate change has long evolved from a purely ecological problem into a social, geopolitical, economical, and fundamentally cultural problem. We are dealing with a wicked problem, that is, an issue that has variegated impacts and is influenced by variegated factors. This complexity is all too often met with resignation, fatalism, or cynicism. Still, there exists a variety of initiatives and projects, such as in political activism, policy-making, civic involvement, education, research, arts, and design, highlighting concrete problems and finding meaningful answers.
Further information on the program and registration here.
Registration is required to participate. Students and all other interested parties are invited.The event takes place in accordance with the 2G rule (admission only for vaccinated or convalescent people). Please bring the relevant documents with you.
Responding to Crisis – Interventions for Sustainable Futures brings together participants from these areas and offers students and employees the opportunity to interact with them and to brainstorm their own ideas and projects and discuss them.