Conferences & Lectures

In her keynote lecture, Pheline Roggan will talk about how she turned a difficult phase of climate anxiety, panic and helplessness into successfully campaigning for sustainable film production and how she confronts the crisis with the idea that we are not (yet) living in the best of all possible worlds: It is about the power…

According to a UN forecast, the urban population will make up more than 65 percent of the world’s population by 2050. How can cities and metropoles face the challenges of meeting the Paris Agreement goals while struggling with problems such as rising temperatures and reduced water availability, but nevertheless constantly grow and expand?

This panel brings together and showcases various initiatives that represent forms of action as well as possible incentives and approaches for empowerment in order to create climate literacy and climate justice.

As countries around the world strive to build and expand cities and infrastructure, mobility and construction are two key industries and central to the discussions when it comes to the green transition. Steel manufacturing produces more CO2 than any other heavy industry, comprising around 8% of total global emissions.

In this fireside chat, artist Jiabao Li will be in conversation with Rachel Donald to talk about how her work addresses climate change, interspecies co-creation, humane technology and perceptions by using methods of co-designing with non-human species as an artistic strategy to explore other-than-human intelligences and shift our perspectives.

The world is at a crucial turning point in the fight against climate change. Every decision counts to achieve the goal of climate neutrality by 2050 and limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C. Not all solutions can be scaled up or down easily, and often specific local conditions make the implementation of systems successfully…