Detailed programme

COCKTAIL

This session will consider the concept of Postnature, taken to be political subject, as a discussion platform from which to research, consider problematic issues and discuss new approaches of the artistic practice that posit the definitive dissolution of the nature-culture pairing. An anarcheology journey through materials, tales and places will create a transcale alchemy of images and events; a speculative journey through the complexity of the relationships between the visual culture and their political, economic and social ramifications.

ATTTNT is a continental infrastructures of reparation lands that models planetary sovereignties and crucial solidarities

to survive a climate crisis. It learns from the black and indigenous victims of the last five hundred years of colonisation, capitalisation and globalisation, whose resistance stories provided cooperation and mutuality practices to counter the Enlightenment/modern/white habits and monocultures. Reparations – essential to address the climate – return to the root causes and the damage patterns, which will otherwise only continue. They revolve around community economies and living organisations instead of financial abstractions. In this framework, problems are information, solutions are errors, ideologies are unreliable markers and innovations are not new technologies, but rather more sophisticated relationships between emerging and existing conditions. By reversing certain expectations regarding what constitutes radical thought, the history of design also offers some special tricks to circumvent the political superbugs.

BIA KLIMA_ reGENERATING FUTURE. Climate and Energy continues on its second day with an insight panel focused on aesthetics, art and nature. The interdisciplinary panel will be led by Iñigo Berasategui and Ane Arce, BEAR.

AESTHETICS, ART AND NATURE. What aesthetics do our future require of us? Reputed artists and professionals will provide a view of how this new vision of nature is materialising in the 21st century.

Philippe Rahm will analyse the natural causes of architectural evolution, i.e., the climate, biological and physical factors that, throughout history, and in close relationships with technological and scientific advances, have influenced its development and shaped its rationale, from pre-history to the present. The Swiss architect will show how rereading the evolution of architecture and urban planning from its material roots allows us not only to understand how they have adapted to the needs and events of each moment, but also to face present and future environmental challenges.