A new ethic towards the planet and all of its species requires the collaboration of a broad spectrum of knowledge. At this conference at the Architekturzentrum Wien, international players from the realms of architecture, art, design, the environment and economics discuss a variety of approaches to Planet Love. We discuss our collective responsibility, and how to stop or at least mitigate climate change, in four panels: EAT LOVE, NATURAL TECHNOLOGY, LAND MATTERS and CIRCULAR SOCIETY. Can interdisciplinary cooperations produce ground-breaking solutions in the field of climate care?
The conference programme is compiled by the partner institutions of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE working together.
Fri 03.09., 15:00–20:15 and Sa 04.09., 11:00–19:00
Az W – Architekturzentrum Wien, Podium
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, Austria
Event held in English.
Reservation is required.
anmeldung@azw.at
The event will also be broadcast live.
Friday, 03.09.
Program
Panel I: EAT LOVE
The EAT LOVE panel approaches the topic of food and tomorrow's food culture through the lens of architecture, exploring new forms of food production, distribution and consumption as a means of tackling the climate crisis. EAT LOVE is also the motto of a mobile studio/think tank station, which is touring the city from May to October 2021. In collaboration with numerous partners, the city is rediscovered along with new forms of urbanism that originate with the local residents themselves. The findings and insights gleaned from this project in the areas of food, mobility, behaviour design and urbanism are to flow into the conference.
Chair: Honey & Bunny, Vienna
3 p.m. Welcome Address Angelika Fitz, Director Az W and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
3:05 p.m. Introduction Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Vienna Business Agency
3:15 p.m. Lecture: Hubert Klumpner & Michael Walczak, urbanthinktank_next (CH)
3:45 p.m. Response: Armando Silva, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá (CO) – online
4:15 p.m. Panel & Q&A:
Els Verbakel, Derman Verbakel Architecture, Tel Aviv (IL) – online
Maciej Chmara, Chmara.Rosinke (AT/DE)
Antonio Scarponi, Conceptual Devices (CH)
Katharina Unger, Livin Farms (AT/HK) – online
Momoyo Kaijima, Atelier Bow Wow (JP) – online
5:30-6 p.m. Break
KEYNOTES
Chair: Angelika Fitz, Director Az W and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
6 p.m. Welcome Address: Angelika Fitz, Director Az W and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
6:15 p.m. Anna Heringer, Honorary Professor UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture, Building Cultures and Sustainable Development (DE): „Architecture is a tool to improve lives.“
7 p.m. Q&A
7:15 p.m. Holly Jean Buck, Geographer and Environmental Social Scientist (USA): „Can we reverse Climate Change?“ – online
8–8:15 p.m. Q&A
Afterwards: Drinks & Food for thought @ Studio Mobil Tank Station, Platz der Menschenrechte next to MQ
Saturday, 04.09.
Program
11 a.m. Welcome Address: Angelika Fitz, Director Az W and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
Panel II: CIRCULAR SOCIETY
Nature is circular. Taking nature’s established winning formula as point of departure, the CIRCULAR SOCIETY panel explores how to base our economies on biological and technical cycles and thereby transition from a linear concept of “take, use, waste” to a circular mode of operation. There is a focus on key areas such as food, textiles/fashion, and the building industry while highlighting some outstanding initiatives in these fields. The panel discusses why we have to move beyond the circular economy towards a truly circular society, and how design, architecture, and art can effectively promote such a transformation.
Chair: Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
11:10 a.m. Introduction: Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
11:15 a.m. Mae-Ling Lokko, Architectural Technologist (GH/USA)
11:35 a.m. Ina Budde, Designer, Co-founder of circular.fashion (DE) (tbc)
11:55 a.m. Harald Gruendl, Designer, EOOS / EOOS NEXT
12:15 p.m. Thomas Romm, Architect, Consulting & Strategic Development BauKarussell
12:35-1:15 p.m. Panel Discussion
1:15–2:45 p.m. Lunch Break
Panel III: LAND MATTERS
The LAND MATTERS panel explores the land issue in a context of the climate crisis, food security, international politics and colonialism, covering the spectrum from an international research platform to land-grabbing in the global south and east, to artistic positions. What is the role that land and our handling of land play in safeguarding a climate-friendly future? How can science, research, art and activism together increase awareness of the significance of the finite and valuable resource of land in the world's environmental and social balance?
Chair: Karoline Mayer, Curator Az W
2:45 p.m. Introduction: Karoline Mayer, Curator Az W
2:50 p.m. Elena Aguido, Artistic Co-director, SAVVY contemporary (DE)
3:10 p.m. Mathieu Asselin, Photographer (FR)
3:30 p.m. Mykhailo Amosov, The Land Matrix Initiative (UA)
3:50–4:30 p.m. Panel Discussion
4:30–5:15 p.m. Coffee Break
Panel IV: NATURAL TECHNOLOGY
The NATURAL TECHNOLOGY panel has a focus on practices and streams of thought that engage with rethinking the relationship between nature and technology, reconfiguring our planetary connections through epistemological systems that undermine the extractivist logic that has long been facilitated by colonial legal mechanisms and late capitalism. We discuss a new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it. We also focus on non-western methods of ecological management, more specifically, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which describes indigenous and other traditional knowledge about local resources.
Chair: Laura Amann & Aziza Harmel, Curatorial Assistants, Kunsthalle Wien
5:15 p.m. Introduction: Laura Amann & Aziza Harmel, Curatorial Assistants, Kunsthalle Wien
5:20 p.m. Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg, Artist (NO) (tbc)
5:40 p.m. Cecilia Åsberg, Professor, Linköping University (SE) - online
6 p.m. Astrida Neimanis, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, University of British Columbia, Okanagan (CA) – online
6:20–7 p.m. Panel Discussion
Funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology
The conference programme is compiled by the partner institutions of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE working together.
Fri 03.09., 15:00–20:15 and Sa 04.09., 11:00–19:00
Az W – Architekturzentrum Wien, Podium
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, Austria
Event held in English.
Reservation is required.
anmeldung@azw.at
The event will also be broadcast live.
Friday, 03.09.
Program
Panel I: EAT LOVE
The EAT LOVE panel approaches the topic of food and tomorrow's food culture through the lens of architecture, exploring new forms of food production, distribution and consumption as a means of tackling the climate crisis. EAT LOVE is also the motto of a mobile studio/think tank station, which is touring the city from May to October 2021. In collaboration with numerous partners, the city is rediscovered along with new forms of urbanism that originate with the local residents themselves. The findings and insights gleaned from this project in the areas of food, mobility, behaviour design and urbanism are to flow into the conference.
Chair: Honey & Bunny, Vienna
3 p.m. Welcome Address Angelika Fitz, Director Az W and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
3:05 p.m. Introduction Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Vienna Business Agency
3:15 p.m. Lecture: Hubert Klumpner & Michael Walczak, urbanthinktank_next (CH)
3:45 p.m. Response: Armando Silva, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá (CO) – online
4:15 p.m. Panel & Q&A:
Els Verbakel, Derman Verbakel Architecture, Tel Aviv (IL) – online
Maciej Chmara, Chmara.Rosinke (AT/DE)
Antonio Scarponi, Conceptual Devices (CH)
Katharina Unger, Livin Farms (AT/HK) – online
Momoyo Kaijima, Atelier Bow Wow (JP) – online
5:30-6 p.m. Break
KEYNOTES
Chair: Angelika Fitz, Director Az W and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
6 p.m. Welcome Address: Angelika Fitz, Director Az W and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
6:15 p.m. Anna Heringer, Honorary Professor UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture, Building Cultures and Sustainable Development (DE): „Architecture is a tool to improve lives.“
7 p.m. Q&A
7:15 p.m. Holly Jean Buck, Geographer and Environmental Social Scientist (USA): „Can we reverse Climate Change?“ – online
8–8:15 p.m. Q&A
Afterwards: Drinks & Food for thought @ Studio Mobil Tank Station, Platz der Menschenrechte next to MQ
Saturday, 04.09.
Program
11 a.m. Welcome Address: Angelika Fitz, Director Az W and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
Panel II: CIRCULAR SOCIETY
Nature is circular. Taking nature’s established winning formula as point of departure, the CIRCULAR SOCIETY panel explores how to base our economies on biological and technical cycles and thereby transition from a linear concept of “take, use, waste” to a circular mode of operation. There is a focus on key areas such as food, textiles/fashion, and the building industry while highlighting some outstanding initiatives in these fields. The panel discusses why we have to move beyond the circular economy towards a truly circular society, and how design, architecture, and art can effectively promote such a transformation.
Chair: Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
11:10 a.m. Introduction: Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE
11:15 a.m. Mae-Ling Lokko, Architectural Technologist (GH/USA)
11:35 a.m. Ina Budde, Designer, Co-founder of circular.fashion (DE) (tbc)
11:55 a.m. Harald Gruendl, Designer, EOOS / EOOS NEXT
12:15 p.m. Thomas Romm, Architect, Consulting & Strategic Development BauKarussell
12:35-1:15 p.m. Panel Discussion
1:15–2:45 p.m. Lunch Break
Panel III: LAND MATTERS
The LAND MATTERS panel explores the land issue in a context of the climate crisis, food security, international politics and colonialism, covering the spectrum from an international research platform to land-grabbing in the global south and east, to artistic positions. What is the role that land and our handling of land play in safeguarding a climate-friendly future? How can science, research, art and activism together increase awareness of the significance of the finite and valuable resource of land in the world's environmental and social balance?
Chair: Karoline Mayer, Curator Az W
2:45 p.m. Introduction: Karoline Mayer, Curator Az W
2:50 p.m. Elena Aguido, Artistic Co-director, SAVVY contemporary (DE)
3:10 p.m. Mathieu Asselin, Photographer (FR)
3:30 p.m. Mykhailo Amosov, The Land Matrix Initiative (UA)
3:50–4:30 p.m. Panel Discussion
4:30–5:15 p.m. Coffee Break
Panel IV: NATURAL TECHNOLOGY
The NATURAL TECHNOLOGY panel has a focus on practices and streams of thought that engage with rethinking the relationship between nature and technology, reconfiguring our planetary connections through epistemological systems that undermine the extractivist logic that has long been facilitated by colonial legal mechanisms and late capitalism. We discuss a new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it. We also focus on non-western methods of ecological management, more specifically, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which describes indigenous and other traditional knowledge about local resources.
Chair: Laura Amann & Aziza Harmel, Curatorial Assistants, Kunsthalle Wien
5:15 p.m. Introduction: Laura Amann & Aziza Harmel, Curatorial Assistants, Kunsthalle Wien
5:20 p.m. Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg, Artist (NO) (tbc)
5:40 p.m. Cecilia Åsberg, Professor, Linköping University (SE) - online
6 p.m. Astrida Neimanis, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, University of British Columbia, Okanagan (CA) – online
6:20–7 p.m. Panel Discussion
Funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology
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