https://ecoartlab.ch Ecoartlab Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:57:56 +0000 https://ecoartlab.ch en https://ecoartlab.ch/summerschool Fri, 24 Feb 2023 14:28:07 +0000 Ecoartlab https://ecoartlab.ch/summerschool Summer School 2020: Climate and the City Monday 24th &nbsp;Kick-Off <img width="2553" height="2553" width_o="2553" height_o="2553" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6dcfc19903f40284cde18b7da14328e5718771ffda1726341c96df17eada44b/01_montag.jpg" data-mid="178556815" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6dcfc19903f40284cde18b7da14328e5718771ffda1726341c96df17eada44b/01_montag.jpg" /> At the start of the Summer School in Bern, the participants met up and got to know each other a little better. After the kick-off there was a speed dating-event so the participants could find groups in which they would elaborate a project together. The participants quickly found each other and were able to start working on their projects in the afternoon. Tuesday 25th Environmental Report <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef1f367e8bbdcb312ce990efbc893ae7ffd7cc3afaced52a26c58b70601e94e7/02_dienstag.jpeg" data-mid="178565896" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef1f367e8bbdcb312ce990efbc893ae7ffd7cc3afaced52a26c58b70601e94e7/02_dienstag.jpeg" /> The second morning was spent listening to an interesting input by Karin Fink about the environmental report BAFU. After the input the groups were able to further work on their projects and get individual mentorings by Yvonne and Benjamin, who also enquired about the ressources the groups will need to develop their projects. Wednesday 26th 3000 Peaks <img width="4464" height="2976" width_o="4464" height_o="2976" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b769d87b7916f80ccaf38fad131d5d13c4a909060afe1cdbe112f16f3daa06d5/e7a2590.jpg" data-mid="178566050" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b769d87b7916f80ccaf38fad131d5d13c4a909060afe1cdbe112f16f3daa06d5/e7a2590.jpg" /> On the third day of the Summer School, the groups were slowly starting to finalise their project ideas and implementations. After some individual work time, the project “3000 Peaks” gave an imput in the afternoon. After further work on their projects, the participants had to say goodbye to Bern and transitioned into the next chapter of the Summer School in Zürich. Thursday 27th Zürich 2050 Futureproof <img width="5315" height="3543" width_o="5315" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39ed56ca19769f64f1bcd140a01ecaea8f1ecee0be7cfe03bc6d3dea1a9b24da/180820_fgg_nea_morgen_3312.jpg" data-mid="178566135" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39ed56ca19769f64f1bcd140a01ecaea8f1ecee0be7cfe03bc6d3dea1a9b24da/180820_fgg_nea_morgen_3312.jpg" /> Arriving in Zürich, the participants made themselves with the future playground for their projects: Frau Gerolds Garten. After touring through the location, the group attended the public lunch event “Zürich 2050 Futureproof”. The rest of the day, the participants were encouraged to continue working on their projects and enjoy the warm city summer day. Friday 28th HEAT Method <img width="4464" height="2976" width_o="4464" height_o="2976" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a45b2e94cd1472c7861c7d2a1554f7ea71c221bd531e57f5cb7113e158fabe72/heat11.jpg" data-mid="178566403" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a45b2e94cd1472c7861c7d2a1554f7ea71c221bd531e57f5cb7113e158fabe72/heat11.jpg" /> Friday morning started out contemplative with a general reflection round on the week and the projects so far. After the lively discussion David Christie showed his strategic design approach, involving research into the psychological and cognitive mechanisms behind denial: the HEAT Method (in short: Hope, Evaluate, Act, Tell). After the input the participants tried to evaluate different aspects of personal and political values concering climate change. Friday 28th Panel Discussion In the Zentralwäscherei the Summer School held a panel discussion with guest speakers. The podium raised questions of language, responsibility, and participation in the cotext of “Climate and the City” . The three guest panelists were Roland Fischer (Science writer / Curator / Tech catalyst), Kaspar König (Artist / Sound designer / Researcher), Anaïs Tilquin (Evolutionary biologist / Ecologist rebelling against extinction) Saturday 29thSaturday 29th Saturday 29th Operation Beton &amp;Interventions <img width="2976" height="2976" width_o="2976" height_o="2976" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd8d003578c4b21947fdb8b2005181b2b496e3b764aa3709b41ea00e935f4503/06_samstag.jpg" data-mid="178566615" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd8d003578c4b21947fdb8b2005181b2b496e3b764aa3709b41ea00e935f4503/06_samstag.jpg" /> After finishing all of their projects, the participants held a final reflective discussion on the week. Following this, the participants held a roundtable with Dr. Annina Boogen about her project “Operation Beton”, a multi-perspective and aesthetic approache on the perception of energy infrastructure in (alpine) landscapes Projects Community Constructions<img width="956" height="956" width_o="956" height_o="956" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b1735b6ee65a5f62e3892ddde9293c7fed7ff0d78dcf922daad4c35667de346/community-constructions_01_cropped.jpg" data-mid="178566994" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/956/i/8b1735b6ee65a5f62e3892ddde9293c7fed7ff0d78dcf922daad4c35667de346/community-constructions_01_cropped.jpg" /> Still Rivers <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cf011351bbc9299aee6b7642d2abd4b3106af4a6f2cbdcceeb6ccefde5e3e45/still_waters_01_cropped.jpg" data-mid="178566999" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cf011351bbc9299aee6b7642d2abd4b3106af4a6f2cbdcceeb6ccefde5e3e45/still_waters_01_cropped.jpg" /> Climate Exquis <img width="1149" height="1149" width_o="1149" height_o="1149" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c244eef7d1e0ef505dd8fcc58b479806d6466f67796616e7eda6522383a44a82/climateexquis_cropped.jpg" data-mid="178567001" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c244eef7d1e0ef505dd8fcc58b479806d6466f67796616e7eda6522383a44a82/climateexquis_cropped.jpg" /> Who are you rooting for?<img width="2976" height="2976" width_o="2976" height_o="2976" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5fd40e3278500b47ca392011133ff0b7a1b837555ce16c18b2611241b9694d7/whoareyourootingfor_cropped.jpg" data-mid="178567013" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5fd40e3278500b47ca392011133ff0b7a1b837555ce16c18b2611241b9694d7/whoareyourootingfor_cropped.jpg" /> Hanging Awareness<img width="2976" height="2976" width_o="2976" height_o="2976" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83631eb47e30027df11606508852f6086018475fb2fb6dc7c24908375027b7fa/hangingawareness_cropped.jpg" data-mid="178567028" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83631eb47e30027df11606508852f6086018475fb2fb6dc7c24908375027b7fa/hangingawareness_cropped.jpg" /> Warming Globes Souvenirs<img width="2976" height="2976" width_o="2976" height_o="2976" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7bfffc80e1b9ab6effece867d8d68acce2bb289161440f3751675ff5c34767ec/warmingglobes_cropped.jpg" data-mid="178567034" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7bfffc80e1b9ab6effece867d8d68acce2bb289161440f3751675ff5c34767ec/warmingglobes_cropped.jpg" /> 3000 Peaks <img width="1357" height="1357" width_o="1357" height_o="1357" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f82cc6a4ce700d142f1df4cd1d4d22861914d3d0daf33619ace2b2a9d64a6f7/3000peaks_eal_bern_cropped.jpg" data-mid="178567057" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f82cc6a4ce700d142f1df4cd1d4d22861914d3d0daf33619ace2b2a9d64a6f7/3000peaks_eal_bern_cropped.jpg" /> HEAT-Method <img width="819" height="820" width_o="819" height_o="820" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48361c8976c7128225d000ebdf4dbabaccf42d4bad3f987efbf1a5726d843982/heat-_01-cropped.jpg" data-mid="178567058" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/819/i/48361c8976c7128225d000ebdf4dbabaccf42d4bad3f987efbf1a5726d843982/heat-_01-cropped.jpg" /> Operation Beton <img width="1480" height="1480" width_o="1480" height_o="1480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69c2f1b0fe60d38635727c2c29a7a2a398c49ca5225343be85532e63f7f1ba26/operation-beton_short-description_cropped.jpg" data-mid="178567060" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69c2f1b0fe60d38635727c2c29a7a2a398c49ca5225343be85532e63f7f1ba26/operation-beton_short-description_cropped.jpg" /> <img width="1213" height="563" width_o="1213" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cba31b92d3f480afa4ad7603fb03900aa0f9495f40f15bbd69a8a1cad896b725/logos_layout.jpg" data-mid="169818094" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cba31b92d3f480afa4ad7603fb03900aa0f9495f40f15bbd69a8a1cad896b725/logos_layout.jpg" /> https://ecoartlab.ch/Home-2 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:04:32 +0000 Ecoartlab https://ecoartlab.ch/Home-2 EcoArtLab Lab&nbsp; &nbsp; Research&nbsp; &nbsp; Interventions https://ecoartlab.ch/News-2 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:13:21 +0000 Ecoartlab https://ecoartlab.ch/News-2 News https://ecoartlab.ch/EcoArtLab-Symposium-Gaps-Friction-and-Injustice-in-Knowledge-Creation Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:09:28 +0000 Ecoartlab https://ecoartlab.ch/EcoArtLab-Symposium-Gaps-Friction-and-Injustice-in-Knowledge-Creation Symposium Art-Science Collaborations: Gaps, Friction, and Injustice in Knowledge Creation Art-science collaborations often claim to be a response to the climate crisis. What is really achieved, what remains unresolved? A HKB symposium examines unseen gaps, exclusions, power relations and friction. 13.10.2026, 1.30pm–7pm and 14.10.2026, 9am–5pm Gaskessel,&nbsp;Sandrainstrasse 25, 3007 Bern <img width="4032" height="2016" width_o="4032" height_o="2016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/678062c4da85018aed818438c3841eb61e63a06fbb4c761707b76c62e22a6fcc/2Forschung_EcoArtLab_Visual.jpg" data-mid="251204413" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/678062c4da85018aed818438c3841eb61e63a06fbb4c761707b76c62e22a6fcc/2Forschung_EcoArtLab_Visual.jpg" /> There is a growing surge in collaborations between artists, scientists, and the public that address the climate crisis and ecological sustainability. It has become almost common sense to claim that transdisciplinarity is the only adequate response to the climate crisis, bridging the gap between knowledge and action, and that bringing artists and scientists together will somehow unlock new ways of knowing, sensing, and transforming society.This symposium invites to critically reflect on lessons from several decades of art-science collaborations in the field of the climate crisis and ecological issues. Rather than highlighting projects as success stories, we focus on the hidden spots of collaborations: What is achieved in these art-science collaborations, and what remains unsolved?Why do we still see countless artist-in-lab-programmes, yet almost no scientists embedded in artists' studios?Who truly benefits from these initiatives, and which target groups are reached?Which inequalities are reproduced through funding structures, disciplinary hierarchies, and staying inside the bubble? Whose perspectives are still missing?And what about the messy, uncomfortable dimensions of collaboration, such as failure, frictions, emotional labor, contamination?&nbsp;How do we confront questions of epistemic injustice?Through panel discussions and working groups, the event aims to lay the groundwork for nothing less than a(nother) manifesto on art-science collaborations in the context of the climate crisis and ecosocietal change. Speakers and contributors Eric Nanchen (HippoCampus, CH), tara lasrado (Curator, Arvae, CH), Sally De Kunst (curator, facilitator &amp; writer, CH), Laura Giudici (Vert le Future, CH), Katharina Schneider-Roos (B Lab, CH), Payal Parekh (Climate Justice Activist &amp; Consultant, CH), Jana Thierfelder (Eawag; ZHdK,CH), Sapna Kumar (UniBE, CH), Juliana Robles de la Pava (HKB, CH), Catarina Fontoura (Falmouth University, UK/PT), Sara Blanco Ramìrez ( UZH &amp; UCR, CH/CR), Karin Fink (HSLU, BAFU, CH), Benjamin Sunarjo (Performance artist and curator, CH), Collective Terravibe (CH), Irene Hediger (AIL ZHdK, CH) Organisation Riikka Tauriainen (EcoArtLab, HKB), Johanna Paschen (EcoArtLab HKB/GIUB UniBe), Susan Thieme (mLAB, GIUB, UniBe), Mirko Winkel (mLAB, GIUB, UniBe), Yvonne Schmidt (EcoArtLab, HKB), Thubten Shontshang (EcoArtLab, HKB), Marc-Antoine Vouillamoz (EcoArtLab, HKB) REGISTRATION:Attendance is free. If you’d like to register, please email thubten.shontshang@hkb.bfh.ch by September 20. Tuesday, October 13 1.30pm Arrival 2pm Welcome 2.15pm Perspectives from the EcoArtLab 3.30pm Break 4pm Podium: Learnings from Arts-Science-Collaborations with Monica Bello (Platform Dalí, ES) Eric Nanchen (HippoCampus, CH) tara lasrado (Curator, Arvae, CH), Irene Hediger (AIL ZHdK, CH) Moderator: Yvonne Schmidt 5.45pm Apéro Wednesday, October 14 9.15am Arrival &amp; Registration 9.30am Warm up Workshop:&nbsp; Get to know each otherwith Sally De Kunst 10.30am Break 10.45am 3 Parallel Working Groups: From Knowledge to Practice: Towards a Manifesto Ways of Working with&nbsp;Laura Giudici (Vert le Future, CH) &amp; Katharina Schneider-Roos (B Lab, CH) This working group explores the conditions needed to establish equitable and balanced art-science collaborations, with a focus on developing a shared language, vision and expectations. It also examines funding models that can support effective, reciprocal and sustainable partnerships across disciplines. The group sheds light on lacking structural cooperations and the importance of care in successful collaborations. Climate Justice Activism and Epistemic (In)Justice with&nbsp;Payal Parekh (Climate Justice Activist &amp; Consultant, CH) The focus of the working group will be on the role of activism in relation to epistemic (in)justice and research in transdisciplinary art and science collaborations. That includes questions about the roles of artists, scientists, and activists in social movements. Many research findings carry significant implications for how individuals should live and how societies should act. However, substantial gaps remain between these insights and lived reality, as illustrated by the insufficient response to the current environmental crisis. Thus far, the efforts of governments to curb the climate crisis have been far short of what is needed. Neither scientists, artists, nor social movements have been able to shift the needle on climate policy. In this working group, we will explore why this may be the case and brainstorm innovative ideas at the intersection of art, science and activism to change this dynamic. Navigating Friction: Working across epistemological, methodological and cultural differences with Jana Thierfelder (Eawag; ZHdK,CH) The working group explores art–science collaboration as a space of productive friction, where epistemological, methodological, and disciplinary cultures meet to expand—but also unsettle—knowledge. It examines how working across different ways of knowing, research practices, and institutional contexts requires negotiation, trust, and mutual learning. The group brings into focus the often unspoken dimensions of collaboration, including emotional labour, asymmetries, and the risks involved in working across disciplines with different values, institutional cultures, languages, geographies, and temporalities. It asks how such encounters reshape not only what can be known, but also how responsibility, vulnerability, and authorship are negotiated and shared. Access: Discussions and practical work at tables, both in plenary sessions and in small groups. Held in english (whispertranslation into german possible). Max. 20 participants. 12.30pm Lunch 1.30pm 3 Parallel Working Groups: From Knowledge to Practice: Towards a ManifestoWays of Acting and Communicating with Laura Giudici (Vert le Future, CH) &amp; Katharina Schneider-Roos (B Lab, CH) Knowledge becomes usable when it is structured and linked to action. What bridging formats can strengthen cross-sector learning about the methods employed in art-science projects, and help to translate them into repeatable practices? This working group examines the infrastructures needed to turn knowledge into concrete action, adapt art-science methods to different contexts and ensure that the right stakeholders are involved, with the benefits distributed equally, to enable a systemic approach. Epistemic (In)Justice in the Production of Climate Change Knowledge with Sapna Kumar (UniBE, CH) &amp;&nbsp;Juliana Robles de la Pava (HKB, CH) The working group reflects on the role of feminist philosophy of science from an intersectional perspective, as well as the role of Indigenous epistemologies, in transdisciplinary collaborations between art and climate science. Diverse strands of feminist thought and non-hegemonic philosophies are concerned with identifying and addressing epistemic injustices, that is, harms related to the production, assessment, and distribution of knowledge, as well as its sensorial dimension. In this session, we will focus on epistemic (in)justices in the production of climate knowledge and knowledge of territories that emerge within global scientific institutions and research-related contexts. We will also explore how a transdisciplinary encounter between art, philosophy, and science has the potential to address climate-related epistemic injustices and different forms of oppression, contributing to a more just and less harmful context for the production and enactment of climate knowledge. Navigating Friction: When Knowledge meets Uncertaintywith Catarina Fontoura (Falmouth University, UK) A working group exploring art–science collaboration as a space where knowledge is not only expanded but unsettled. What happens when different ways of knowing, making and working encounter one another — and when methods, assumptions and certainties no longer quite hold?Through discussion and practical exercises, the working group &nbsp;brings attention to the often-unspoken dimensions of collaboration: the emotional labour of working across difference, the asymmetries of knowledge and power, and the risks involved in building trust across disciplines with different languages, values and timelines. Rather than seeking to resolve these frictions, the working groupconsiders them as productive spaces for negotiation and learning. It asks how encounters between art and science might reshape not only what can be known, but also how responsibility, vulnerability and authorship are shared. Access: Movement-based activities. Discussions and practical work at tables, both in plenary sessions and in small groups. Held in english (whispertranslation into german possible). Max. 20 participants. 3pm Break 3.15pm Input: Participant Observers interventions with Sara Blanco Ramìrez, Karin Fink, Benjamin Sunarjo 3.45pm Wrap-Up Workshop : Creating the Manifesto with Sally De Kunst 5.30pm End of the Symposium ongoing Installations: Dialogue of two Mothers from Tomasee to SunderbansCollective Terravibe, 2024 As a complementary element to the installation a spart of the exhibition and themed trail ‘Stories of departure and arrival’ at the Ballenberg Open-Air Museum 2024, the video was created during the residency ‘Dialogue as a means of understanding and empathy’ organised by the EcoArt Lab (HKB) in collaboration with the Ballenberg Museum, Helvetas and the mLAB at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern. Soils, the base of life on land, are literally and metaphorically the common ground our lives and communities are built upon. Expanding on their work with soils as a hyper-local, stable medium, they play with water and rivers as a global, flowing element to draw attention to in/visible connections between the mountains and the sea, beginnings and endings, Switzerland and India. By getting personal through a mixed method comparative study between the Tomasee in Switzerland and the Gangetic Delta in India, their intention is to bring forward dialogue as a tool of empathy, change, resistance and action in highly complex, intangible contexts. Through an intergenerational dialogue between Dutt &amp; Herrmann, both in their 30s, and their mothers, both in their 60s, we add in women’s perspectives through time. They explore the connections between women and nature in the socio-cultural context of their homes, highlighting the importance of honoring a spectrum of perspectives and learning from our elders. Waterscape Imaginaries Riikka Tauriainen &amp; Marta Musso, Centre d’art Pasquart, 2025Waterscape Imaginaries emerged from a collaboration between the visual artist Riikka Tauriainen and the marine biologist and illustrator Marta Musso as part of the Pro Helvetia Synergies project Plankton Ecosystems within the EcoArtLab. Both focus on plankton and aquatic ecosystems in their research and practice. This two-part film paints a multi-layered picture of life underwater:The first chapter of the film presents aquatic environments from a non-human perspective – diving into river currents, drifting amongst swarms of jellyfish and sinking into microscopic worlds. Viewers are invited to imagine water as a living, dynamic medium that exists beyond human perception. This imagined perspective opens up a space for new forms of understanding and empathy towards ecological processes. The second chapter is devoted to the collaborative creative process between the scientist and the artist. It returns to the same water sites from the first chapter and takes the audience on a journey from the glaciers high in the mountains down to the coasts. In doing so, it highlights the social dimensions of field research, dialogue and joint exploration. Together, the two chapters offer a multi-layered reflection on water as a medium of transmission, memory and archiving. Water emerges as an active participant, shaping, storing and circulating the traces of ecological, geological and social processes. Through this dual perspective, Waterscape Imaginaries invites the audience to reflect on how knowledge is formed and shared across disciplines and scales. Accessibility We aim to make our symposium accessible to as many people as possible. We therefore endeavour to take various needs into account. We realise that not all needs can be fully covered. If you have any questions or concerns or need support, please contact us by sending a message to thubten.shontshang@hkb.bfh.ch How to get there: The symposium will take place at Gaskessel Bern, 400 metres from the bus station Monbijoubrücke. Travelling by public transport from Bern railway station, take the B19 or T9 to the station Sulgenau. From there it is a 700 meter walk, or change on to B28 for one further station. There is an elveator to reach Sandrainstrasse down from the bridge. Adress: Gaskessel Bern, Sandrainstrasse 25, 3007 Bern Access to the building: The entire venue is wheelchair accessible. Transport partner: www.betax.chParking: There are no visitor parking spaces directly on site. Closest public parking space is Parkplatz Marzili. https://ecoartlab.ch/SAVE-THE-DATE Fri, 29 May 2026 09:09:48 +0000 Ecoartlab https://ecoartlab.ch/SAVE-THE-DATE <img width="9000" height="11250" width_o="9000" height_o="11250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2fe0079e19b2709ca42832d97ae2973420155380d7fa6788636cb3b08ba09fd/Save-the-date.jpg" data-mid="248880118" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2fe0079e19b2709ca42832d97ae2973420155380d7fa6788636cb3b08ba09fd/Save-the-date.jpg" /> SAVE THE DATE: Symposium | EcoArtLab | Gaskessel Bern !SAVE THE DATE! 13 &amp; 14 October 2026 at Gaskessel Bern How do transdisciplinary art-science collaborations in the context of ecological transformations deliver on their promise for change and success, or are structural problems being perpetuated and reproduced?As the SNSF research project ‘EcoArtLab: Relational Encounters between the Arts and Climate Research’ draws to a close, we are organising a gathering of artists, researchers and practitioners to look back on the learnings together and work towards a manifesto. Stay tuned https://ecoartlab.ch/Symposium-Wien Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:57:56 +0000 Ecoartlab https://ecoartlab.ch/Symposium-Wien SYMPOSIUM: 1.-3. Oktober 2026 Universitaet fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien Kunst_Klima_Forschung:&nbsp;Wandel gestalten Mit Impulsvortrag und Respondenz von Yvonne Schmidt Anmeldung bis zum 15.092026 die Teilnahme ist kostenlos Das Symposium fragt nach der Bedeutung von Kunst, Artistic Research, Arts based Research und deren Einbindung in transformative Forschung. Ziel ist eine mdw-interne und universitätsübergreifende Vernetzung zum Aufbau von Forschungsprojekten an der Schnittstelle von Kunst und Wissenschaft. Do, 1. Oktober 2026 | 17:15 Impulsvorträge: Kunst_Klima_Forschung Sam Goldscheider, Harmonic Progression, Verbier Festival Yvonne Schmidt, EcoArtLab, Hochschule der Künste Bern Harald Heinrichs, Institut für Nachhaltigkeitssteuerung, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Fr, 2. Oktober 2026 | 14:00 Impulsvorträge: Transformative Forschung Reinhard Steurer, Institut für Wald-, Umwelt- und Ressourcenpolitik/ BOKU Wien Ulli Vilsmaier, Responsive Research Collective sowie Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Lisa Bohunovsky, Zentrum für Globalen Wandel &amp; Nachhaltigkeit/ BOKU Wien Respondenzen Yvonne Schmidt und Stephanie Schroedter, Artistic Research Center (ARC) Weitere Infos und Programmpunkte: HIER&nbsp; <img width="2250" height="2813" width_o="2250" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6689ee46c143130fb5a5095269355a32c4847f0cfa42950df50b810ff64c3e5/konferenz-wien.png" data-mid="251185208" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6689ee46c143130fb5a5095269355a32c4847f0cfa42950df50b810ff64c3e5/konferenz-wien.png" /> https://ecoartlab.ch/Shaping-Utopias-1 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:20:51 +0000 Ecoartlab https://ecoartlab.ch/Shaping-Utopias-1 Intervention: NOAH Friends of The Earth Denmark – Institute of Eternal Utopias | EcoArtLab «Shaping Utopias: Methods and Practices in Art, Activism and Climate Research»Wednesday, 22 April 2026 17:00 – 19:00 Auditorium Bern Academy of the Arts Fellerstrasse 11&nbsp; 3018 Bern Interviews of the Dreamers – Reflections on the Transdisciplinary EcoArtLab Collaboration How do artists, activists, and researchers collaborate through different practices to create utopias? The Institute of Eternal Utopias will take you on a twisted lecture that blends academic reflection with performative and embodied modes of presentation. Sharing an alchemical transformation on how we could look at the world, it will introduce you to their work, or will it unfold as a dream? This event will elaborate on the motivations, frames, and actions of the Institute for Eternal Utopias. It will also reflect on the participatory action research process led by PhD researcher Johanna Paschen and share initial insights from multiple perspectives. The presentation will evolve into an open discussion, inviting collective reflection and dialogue. 17.00 – 17.30 Twisted Lecture Performance by NOAH 17.30 – 18.00 Reflection on the participatory action research process and sharing initial insights from multiple perspectives 18.00 – 18.30 Open Discussion Round 18.30 – 19.00 Apéro The SNSF-funded research project Relational Encounters between the Arts and Climate Research examined the collaborative working process between artists, activists, and researchers. Through participatory action research, the research focused on practices and forms of methodological integration within transdisciplinary collaboration with the artists and activists as co-researchers. The Institute of Eternal Utopias is a space where artists and activists meet to process, digest, perform and reflect on utopias. It takes its roots in the Danish environmental organisation NOAH (part of the Friends of the Earth network) and employs artivism as a method and tool to share visions and embody the change it seeks in the world. Combining ecofeminist approaches with the praxis of ecological care, the initiative originated to gather people’s dreams and bring them to the European Union, transforming our relationship to politics by ‘wearing the costume of power’ as we would like it to be: soft, flowery, supportive and in solidarity. The Institute aims to be a sense-based, meditative and collaborative laboratory for inspiration, dreams, hope, togetherness, and cultivating tasty and sensory alternatives. Speaker: Emmeline Werner, Mads Kjærgaard Lange &amp; Annika Nilsson, activists and artists, NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark; Asger Hougaard,&nbsp;external lecturer, University of Copenhagen Moderation: Johanna Paschen,researcher, EcoArtLab, Univeristy of Bern &amp; Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB) Host: EcoArtLab, Institute Practices &amp; Theories in the Arts (HKB) Access: Wheelchair access. For more details or questions, please contact thubten.shontshang@hkb.bfh.ch. Talk will be in English. https://ecoartlab.ch/Conference-Beyond-Communication Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:49:53 +0000 Ecoartlab https://ecoartlab.ch/Conference-Beyond-Communication <img width="2250" height="2813" width_o="2250" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a9d1ad27a4dcb9c647d6a1d66d769fe5a24edeaf4820769d24593788be997e1/beyond-communication.jpg" data-mid="246752242" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a9d1ad27a4dcb9c647d6a1d66d769fe5a24edeaf4820769d24593788be997e1/beyond-communication.jpg" /> Conference: ART–SCIENCE CONFERENCE 4 – 5 May, organized by Eawag and Zurich University of the Arts | Riikka Tauriainen | Yvonne Schmidt «Beyond Communication» art–science collaborations for science, policy and society Yvonne Schmidt and Riikka Tauriainen will be contributing to the ART–SCIENCE CONFERENCE 4 – 5 May, organized by Eawag and Zurich University of the Arts. The conference brings together practitioners in the field of art and science collaboration along with students and policy makers. The goal of the conference, together with exhibitions and screenings, are threefold: first, to give these collaborations a platform and make them visible; second, to create a space for exchange around the guiding questions of (i) where the motivation to engage in such work originates, (ii) what these collaborations facilitate, and (iii) what the main challenges are; and third, to offer discussion on how to work across disciplines, particularly in art-science contexts, and how to engage at science-policy interfaces. Unfolding Waterscapes (2025) by Riikka Tauriainen &amp; Marta Musso 4 May, 18:30, Kino Toni Response : Critical Perspecitves on Art-Science Collaborations With Yvonne Schmidt 5 May, 16 :00 See the full programm&nbsp;HERE. https://ecoartlab.ch/Publication-Framework-Conditions-Creating-Epistemic-Injustices Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:49:14 +0000 Ecoartlab https://ecoartlab.ch/Publication-Framework-Conditions-Creating-Epistemic-Injustices <img width="2250" height="2813" width_o="2250" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c72fe57ce421789983fce99fd2fdbe4e89e05501f6abbbfef5d91cb05de32a0/Vorlage_EcoArtLab.jpg" data-mid="245520474" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c72fe57ce421789983fce99fd2fdbe4e89e05501f6abbbfef5d91cb05de32a0/Vorlage_EcoArtLab.jpg" /> Publication: GEO: Geography and Environment | Johanna Paschen «Transdisciplinary Art and Climate Science Collaborations: Framework Conditions Creating Epistemic Injustices» Johanna Paschen We are excited to share another publication! Johanna’s article was published in Geo: Geography and Environment. Transdisciplinary art-science collaborations addressing the climate crisis aim to co-create knowledge by integrating diverse perspectives and knowledge types to tackle complex sustainability challenges. Despite growing institutional and funding support, little research has been done on how framework conditions shape such collaborations. This study examines how framework conditions of transdisciplinary art-science collaborations influence collaborative dynamics of knowledge integration and contribute to epistemic injustice. Framework conditions refer to circumstances, thus structural and situational factors shaping collaboration, which can enable or constrain it. Epistemic injustice involves knowledge-related injustices, including the exclusion or silencing of knowers. Applying semi-structured interviews and the transdisciplinary storywall method, six Switzerland-based transdisciplinary art-science collaborations addressing climate, ecological or sustainability issues were analysed. The exploratory thematic analysis identified the six key framework conditions of temporality, financing, location, internationality, partnering and outcome, which elicit circumstances creating epistemic injustice. Applying four epistemic injustice dimensions to categorise collaborators' experiences on conditions further, the findings show that these conditions most frequently contribute to participatory and procedural, followed by distributive and then recognition epistemic injustices. Early phases of collaboration were found to be particularly influential in shaping unjust processes. This study suggests the need for greater awareness of injustice among scientists, practitioners and artists and calls for structural adjustments by those shaping or initiating such collaborations. It offers practical recommendations to reduce epistemic injustices and strive for more inclusive and pluralistic knowledge integration and co-creation in art-science contexts, as well as across broader transdisciplinary sustainability efforts to address the climate crisis. Read the full article HERE. https://ecoartlab.ch/Publication-Waterscapes-An-Art-Science-Workbook-1 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:01:39 +0000 Ecoartlab https://ecoartlab.ch/Publication-Waterscapes-An-Art-Science-Workbook-1 Publication: Waterscapes: An Art-Science Workbook | Waterscape Imaginaries «Waterscapes: An Art-Science Workbook» Riikka Tauriainen &amp; Marta Musso &nbsp;DOWNLOAD&nbsp;EN: We are happy to share Waterscapes: An Art-Science Workbook, a publication emerging from the artistic-scientific research project Plankton Ecosystems. The workbook accompanies our ongoing research and documents fieldworks, workshops, and shared exercises developed through collaboration between the marine biologist Marta Musso and the visual artist Riikka Tauriainen. Conceived as a living document, the workbook is not only a record of processes, but an open and adaptable format meant to be activated. It introduces artistic and community science exercises that invite readers to observe, sense, draw, map, and sample water bodies in their own contexts. Alongside documentation, it proposes ways of engaging with microorganisms that are central to aquatic ecosystems and climate regulation, yet largely invisible beyond scientific discourse. The workbook brings together four Plankton Studio exercises, two field trips from mountain rivers to the Limfjord in Denmark, and a range of visual materials and research tools. It moves across scientific protocols and artistic practices, working with sampling methods, taxonomy tools, mapping, drawing, and cyanotype impressions made with sunlight and water. Waterscapes is an invitation to think with plankton, to drift with water, and to explore ecological processes through both scientific and artistic lenses. The workbook is trilingual and works in English, Italian, and German, reflecting the multilingual nature of our collaboration. Plankton Ecosystems is a programme by EcoArtLab at the Bern Academy of the Arts HKB in collaboration with Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne, ETH Zurich, European Research Institute, and Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, with the support of Pro Helvetia Synergies Musso, Marta; Tauriainen, Riikka. "Waterscapes: An Art-Science Workbook" produced by EcoArtLab, Institute for Practices and Theories in the Arts (IPTK), Bern Academy of the Arts HKB, BFH, Bern, 2025. DE: Wir freuen uns Waterscapes: An Art-Science Workbook teilen zu dürfen. Eine Publikation, die aus dem künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Forschungsprojekt Plankton Ecosystemshervorgegangen ist. Das Arbeitsbuch begleitet unsere laufenden Forschungen und dokumentiert Feldforschung, Workshops und gemeinsame Übungen, die in Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Meeresbiologin Marta Musso und der bildenden Künstlerin Riikka Tauriainen entwickelt wurden. Das Arbeitsbuch ist als lebendiges Dokument konzipiert und dient nicht nur der Dokumentation von Prozessen, sondern ist ein offenes und anpassungsfähiges Format, das zum Mitmachen einlädt. Es stellt künstlerische und Community Science Übungen vor, die Leser*innen dazu anregen, Gewässer in ihrem eigenen Umfeld zu beobachten, zu ertasten, zu zeichnen, zu kartieren und zu beproben. Neben der Dokumentation zeigt es Möglichkeiten auf, sich mit Mikroorganismen auseinanderzusetzen, die für aquatische Ökosysteme und die Klimaregulierung von zentraler Bedeutung sind, aber ausserhalb des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses weitgehend unsichtbar bleiben. Das Arbeitsbuch vereint vier Übungen aus dem Plankton Studio, zwei Exkursionen von Gebirgsflüssen zum Limfjord in Dänemark sowie eine Reihe von Bildmaterialien und Forschungswerkzeugen. Es bewegt sich zwischen wissenschaftlichen Protokollen und künstlerischen Praktiken und arbeitet mit Probenahmemethoden, taxonomischen Instrumenten, Kartierung, Zeichnen und Cyanotypie-Abdrücken, die mit Sonnenlicht und Wasser hergestellt werden. Waterscapes ist eine Einladung, mit Plankton zu denken, sich mit dem Wasser treiben zu lassen und ökologische Prozesse sowohl aus wissenschaftlicher als auch aus künstlerischer Perspektive zu erkunden. Das Arbeitsbuch ist dreisprachig und erscheint in Englisch, Italienisch und Deutsch, was den mehrsprachigen Charakter unserer Zusammenarbeit widerspiegelt. Plankton Ecosystems ist ein Programm von EcoArtLab an der Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne, der ETH Zürich, dem European Research Institute und dem Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, mit Unterstützung von Pro Helvetia Synergies