PROJECT SUMMARY
Fridays for Future, climate crisis, net zero – the debate about climate change and ecological sustainability has moved to the center of society. What options for action exist and what conditions must be in place for a societal transformation toward greater sustainability to be possible?
In an SNSF-funded collaboration between the Institute for Practices and Theories of the Arts at the Bern Academy of the Arts HKB and our mLAB we explore how the interplay of expertise from artistic research, geography and critical sustainability research can be made fruitful for the climate debate. The main focus is on climate art projects that involve collaborative approaches between artists and scientists.
What methodologies can be developed in transdisciplinary collaborations to make climate change tangible as a hyperobject (Morton 2013) and to drive cultural change?
Outcome of the project will be an overview of the current trend of climate art, which makes it possible to develop criteria for the evaluation of such works as well as to give impulses for innovative forms of transdisciplinary collaboration in dialogue with practitioners – researchers, artists and institutions.
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