How can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate change? To explore this question, the Berliner Gazette organizes the 20th edition of its annual conference: a three-day program with workshops, performances and public talks at the ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin, October 10-12, 2019. All info about MORE WORLD program please find here: https://more-world.berlinergazette.de
Public Talks
The public talks program includes keynotes by the scientist Sujatha Byravan (India), whose pioneering research explores the politics of climate refugees, activist Virginie Gailing (France), who is hacking the climate discourse online and offline with the do-it-together movement Extinction Rebellion, the political geographer and radio maker Anja Kanngieser (Australia), whose work on imperiled Pacific islands urges us to cooperate on the frontlines of climate change, the Fridays For Future activist Clara Mayer (Germany), who dares to confront the corporate and political elites with the uncomfortable truths of climate change, the poet and philosopher Sudesh Mishra (Fiji), sustainability expert Nikki Maksimovic (UK), whose work with the Berlin-based Internet search engine Ecosia helps to plants trees by donating 80% of its surplus income for reforestation initiatives, who mobilizes indigenous cosmologies as sources of inspiration vis-à-vis environmental havoc, the journalist and technology expert Marta Peirano (Spain), whose new book explores how to tackle climate change with communal technologies, and the activist and writer Harsha Walia (Canada), whose work on migration intersects with climate justice struggles. The talks will be moderated by Abiol Lual Deng (South-Sudan/US), an international relations expert and humanitarian policy consultant, Jennifer Kamau (Kenya/Germany) who is an activist and researcher and facilitates a migrant network called International Women Space, and Jaron Rowan (Spain), a researcher, author and activist.Performances
The conference program includes performances by artist and researcher Kat Austen (UK), who will perform a multimedia symphony based on her research trip to the North Pole; the art collective The University of the Phoenix (Canada), who will be offering participants an opportunity to join “The Order of the Immortal Stranger”: a global secret society for interspecies cooperation; the artist Xin Xin (USA/Taiwan), who will be presenting “Plant Ensemble”, a performance that uses biofeedback in plants to synthesize sound; the choreographer Pepe Dayaw (Philippines), who will be cooperatively creating a Bibimbap-Badubap (a Korean rice dish), amplifying the chopping sounds and remixing them into a jazz concert while cooking; and the poet Falko Hennig (Germany), who will be leading two city walks, exploring cooperative initiatives that tackle climate change.MORE WORLD program:
https://more-world.berlinergazette.deMORE WORLD interviews (with workshop guests, moderators, keynote speakers and performers):
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