POSTCITY, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
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Space Messengers
Josef Dorninger (AT), STEMarts LAB
Space Messengers is a participatory mixed reality installation that visualizes reflections on the universe, encouraging participants to contemplate their role within it. It evolved from a collaboration among artists, scientists, experts and youth ambassadors exploring how to deepen our understanding of the universe and expand our identities as planetary citizens.
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Systemic Change in the Times of Polycrisis
Antti Tenetz (FI), Tero Toivanen (FI)
The workshop “Systemic Change in Times of Polycrisis” explores how we can broaden our horizons and find sustainable solutions to the polycrisis caused by ecological emergency. It focuses on radical change in industrial societies. The perspectives of polycrisis will be linked to local examples that will be explored through the work of artists, researchers and…
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Planetary Mattering
Miha Turšič (SI/NL)
It matters which planet we portray, and which one we do not. In this workshop, participants will learn about ways of mattering. With this term, we refer to the images, interests and facts that shape our image of the planet, and, in turn, how the solidification of these imaginaries determines the way we talk about…
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Meet-up: The Restart Project – What’s inside your smartphone?
Ugo Vallauri (IT), James Pickstone (UK
All our digital devices contain precious materials. Let’s fix our relationship with electronics, fight for the Right to Repair and slow down our consumption.
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Planetary Public Stack
Miha Turšič, Waag Futurelab (SI/NL)
Strategic tools for researchers, creatives, artists and designers to better engage in socio-environmental transitions towards building heterogenous and inclusive understanding and expressions of shared planetary views, concerns, interests and heritage.
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Expert Tour with Friedrich Schwarz: POSTCITY rooftop
Friedrich Schwarz (AT)
Expert Tours on the roof of POSTCITY have already been undertaken several times as part of the Ars Electronica Festival. Urban ecologist and botanist Friedrich Schwarz will take you on a journey into a special world that you wouldn’t expect to find in such abundance: for decades, a collection of ecological wonders has developed here…
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Expert Tour: MIKRO-MAKRO, from observation to orientation (Projekt Atol)
Marko Peljhan (SI) / Uroš Veber (SI)
MIKRO-MAKRO, from observation to orientation, led by Marko Peljhan (SI) and Uroš Veber (SI), focuses on showcasing works that observe systems and will attempt to synthesize certain common topical vectors present in all of them.
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Expert Tour with Miha Turšič: Mattering
Miha Turšič (SI/NL) / Waag Futurelab
‘Matter’ can be understood as both a noun and a verb: it is about material and about caring. Mattering is the inseparable interplay between creating facts and values, and the cultural and societal structures that emerge from this dynamic relationship. The way in which we imagine our planet influences our direct environment and therefore matters…
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Expert Tour with Annick Bureaud: Terraforming Earth – Decolonizing Space
Annick Bureaud (FR) / Leonardo/Olats
Terraforming is the process by which we would like to transform other planets to make them habitable for us. Colonization has become the synonym to appropriation and exploitation. Considering these notions, we discuss how they could inform humanity’s view looking back at Earth and at our endeavors in Space today through a selection of three…
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Expert Tour with Andy Gracie: Massive Binaries
Andy Gracie (UK/ES)
Focusing on neutron star mergers and the phenomena produced by interactions between binary systems across society and cosmology, the project discusses the fragile, hidden and impossible truths around us.