The Studiotopia Day Conference takes this year’s theme “HOPE—who will turn the tide” as a starting point to look at inspiring and hope-giving efforts made by companies, start-ups, initiatives, artists and policy makers to mitigate and fight dystopian prospects of our future on this febrile planet. The second day of the theme symposium brings together a series of experts, practitioners, creative minds who draw on practical examples to tackle the challenge of actively transforming the systems we live in and the technologies we use into more durable, greener versions.
“To reinvent the wheel” long served as a saying for a useless activity. Yet it comes close to what many creative minds are now confronted with and already successfully doing when transforming their industrial, economic or social projects into greener—and ultimately net zero—emission endeavours. Presentations and debates will be staged that cover global efforts and goals to implement initiatives and plans such as “Net Zero by 2050,” the “Green Deal”, the transition to renewable energy and mitigation of the costs of decarbonization, the turn towards “Eco-Cities,” the creation of green mobility systems and legal actions to protect nature and our societies’ future. All of these events will feature inspiring, disruptive ideas, offering insight into the reinvention of age-old systems our lives and economies rely on, as well as into efforts to make human life and cohabitation with non-human species and nature on our planet more sustainable.
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Adapting | Technologies of Resilience
Andrei Baicu (BE), Mohamed Sleiman Labat (EH), Dani Ploeger (NL), Katharina Meyer (DE)
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…
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And Action! Green Filming or How to Turn Climate Angst into Agency
Pheline Roggan (DE)
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…
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Connecting | More-than-human co-creation
Jiabao Li (CN), Rachel Donald (GB)
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.
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Reinventing | Green mobility, energy and construction
Thomas Bürgler (AT), Denis Azhar (GB), Rachel Donald (GB)
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.
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Replay: Let’s Create a New Planet Together
Konstantin Mitgutsch (AT)
Interactive Session with Konstantin Mitgutsch In this interactive session with game designer and play researcher Konstantin Mitgutsch, participants will use their phones to collaboratively create a new planet, experiencing firsthand the power of cooperation and creativity. Through this fun and challenging experiment, we will discover how reimagining life as a more cooperative and fair game…
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Systemic Change Through Climate Literacy
Christiane Gerstetter (DE), Beatie Wolfe (US), Konstantin Mitgutsch (AT), Miha Turšič (SI/NL)
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.
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Systemic change through eco-urban planning
Katja Schechtner (AT), Neda Kostandinovic (RS), Rachel Donald (GB)
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?
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Welcome & Introduction to the day
Rachel Donald (GB)
Credits Presented in the context of the Studiotopia project. Studiotopia is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Credits
Presented in the context of the Studiotopia project. Studiotopia is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
