Encountering Silent Workers

How do we encounter silent workers? How do we see what is meant to be hidden behind apps and interfaces? In our group work, we went on an unusual search: the search for our personal encounters with silent workers as researchers, academics and scholars. While some of us hired workers in order to find interview… Continue reading Encountering Silent Workers

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Climate Action: We don’t shut up!

MORE WORLD – BG’s 20th Anniversary Conference How can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate change? To explore this question, the Berliner Gazette organized the 20th edition of its annual conference: a three-day program with workshops, performances and public talks. A documentation of the event and further info about MORE WORLD please find here: https://more-world.berlinergazette.de ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics | Berlin | October 10–12, 2019

We were concentrating on the idea of intersectionalities and climate change. We started talking about some of the real life projects that people are working on and thinking of ways how to connect people from very different areas. One of the projects we were looking at was #HambiBleibt – the new protest movement against coal… Continue reading Climate Action: We don’t shut up!

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Everyday Encounters with the Impacts of Climate Change

MORE WORLD – BG’s 20th Anniversary Conference How can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate change? To explore this question, the Berliner Gazette organized the 20th edition of its annual conference: a three-day program with workshops, performances and public talks. A documentation of the event and further info about MORE WORLD please find here: https://more-world.berlinergazette.de ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics | Berlin | October 10–12, 2019

How can we connect climate narratives with data? How could we visualize the willingness of many individuals that want to make a change when it comes to global warming? Using data visualization techniques, two groups at the MORE WORLD conference came up with engaging and interactive projects. Read more about them below. Climate Storytelling As… Continue reading Everyday Encounters with the Impacts of Climate Change

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Climate Justice

"Climate Justice rally - Make Big Oil Pay" by anitakhart is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Climate justice relates to the fact that those who are least responsible for anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are the ones most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. There are different ways by which the world may begin to address this challenge. Rich countries could provide support to developing countries for economic and… Continue reading Climate Justice

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Data-Driven Decisions

Many climate change solutions involve changes in consumption patterns, significant investments and austerity measures that politicians are afraid to make because they could prove unpopular. Apart from the compulsory expert opinions, we think people’s will should be included in the decision-making process as well. We believe many individuals would be willing to make changes in… Continue reading Data-Driven Decisions

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#SorryIsNotEnough

The word ‘lifestyles’ is tied up with ways of living and the conditions of life. The former relates to personal choices and the latter to socio-cultural context. For the climate crisis, it has become clear that both need to be transformed radically within a short span of time if we are to have any hope… Continue reading #SorryIsNotEnough

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Towards the Unknown

We worked within a highly structured series of exercises borrowed and amalgamated from Social Presencing Theatre, La Pocha Nostra, among other traditions, to locate counterknowledge in three ways, explained below. First we asked our ‘intuition’ (also sometimes known as our assumptions) about another person as we stared in their eyes. If the other person was… Continue reading Towards the Unknown

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