Presentations
With Stéphane Grumbach & Olivier Hamant, Ela Spalding, Orit Halpern Johannes Bruder, Karolina Sobecka and Sandi Hilal

Some of the most interesting work on the Anthropocene takes place in between places, in between disciplines, and even in between the lines. These four different case studies present research that finds ways of moving between these spaces and the lines that connect them.

As evident in discussions of climate policy and other matters, what we have come to know through the sciences is increasingly mismatched with how we act upon global issues. Taking this problem to task Grumbach and Hamant delve into the concept of suboptimality in systems to sketch out how better models and better responses to climate issues can be possible at a system scale.

Moving between Germany and Panama, Estudio Nuboso attempts to connect scientific and artistic discourses around ecology between the two places while confronting the challenges presented with working in two radically different contexts.

The Mont Pèlerin Rewrite is a performative and collective effort to imagine a different world, and a different future, through the creative re-writing and re-interpreting of central economic policy documents written nearly 70 years ago in Switzerland that encode neoliberal ideologies in the present.

The Living Room is an ongoing experiment using living rooms as a space for self representation; a space which has the potential to subvert the role of guest and host and give a different socio-political meaning to the act of hospitality as it concerns the experience of refugees in Europe.

The event will be streamed via The Shape of a Practice online environment: http://shape.anthropocene-curriculum.org