Organized as part of the project Circulating Narratives - Entangling Communities: Case Studies in Global Performance Art, Research Area 2: "Travelling Matters" based at the Cluster of Excellence EXC 2020 'Temporal Communities, Freie Universität Berlin. In collaboration with metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin and ZK/U Berlin – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik. Hosted by Einstein Center Digital Future(ECDF) Berlin. The number of participants is limited. Please register by December 1 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.

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

Program

Each presentation includes 15 minutes Q&A

10:00 | Welcome & Introduction

• 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)

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Case Studies in Planetary Agencies. Moderator: Annette Jael Lehmann

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10:15 | Planetary Agencies - how art can create a space of agency for non-human stakeholders

• Matthias Einhoff (ZK/U Berlin – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik)

10:45 | ClimART and GPTree – an emotional and artistic access to climate change to enhance climate resilience

• Stefan Koderisch & Clemens Gruber (ZK/U Berlin – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik)

11:45 | Lunch Break (Catering)

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Co-Exploring Current Projects. Moderator: Pier Luigi Sacco (IULM University Milan)

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12:45 | Mapping, exploring and sensing infrastructures

• Giacomo Nanni (Urban Complexity Lab)

13:15 | Glitches as Storytellers – Symbolic Potential of Errors in Satellite Image Depictions of Climate-Affected Environments

• Till Rückwart (metaLAB (at) FU Berlin)

13:45 | Advancing Hate Speech Detection in Online Communication of Adolescents

• Jan Fillies (Freie Universität Berlin)

14:15 | Short Break (Coffee)

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

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14:30 | Decentering Humans: Creating a new institute for climate sound

• Kara Oehler (Institute for Climate Sound & Society, Copenhagen, metaLAB (at) Harvard)

15:00 | Transductive Wind Music – Sharing the Danish Landscape with Wind Turbines

• Marie Koldkjær Højlund (Aarhus University)

15:30 | Short Break

15:45 | Performance Lecture (hybrid – please register here)

Storytelling for Social Impact: UAL's AKO Storytelling Institute's Mission

• Francesca Panetta (AKO Storytelling Institute, University of Arts London)

16:30 | Wrap-Up & Closing Remark

Further Information

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

The number of participants is limited. Please register by December 1 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.