Climate Change, Art and Isolation
Augmented Europe – Riga “Climate Change” Ideathon
Friday, March 26, 2021 (virtual)
Organized by RIXC / Riga,
in collaboration with AUGE – Augmented Europe project partners
Call for Participation!
Are you interested to find out how art and other creative practices tend to contribute to the
greatest challenges of our time such as climate change and pandemics? Join us for the
Augmented Europe – Riga Virtual Ideathon taking place on March 26, 2021 – to share your
experience, ideas and visions with regards to climate, art and isolation!
Deadline: March 22, 2021! Apply Now!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj72YiPQ5tjhfB0bHG2tyQbmGaC3t3HJLT_JQvTR9qTK_IVg/viewform
AUGE | Augmented Europe Ideathons are short, intensive, workshop-like experiences for young people to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. AUGE Riga ideathon will serve a platform for discussion on climate change, art and isolation, focusing on how the time of pandemics have influenced climate activism, and exploring the role of art and creativity in raising awareness about these issues.
Our times of social distancing, lock-downs and isolation present new and unique challenges for climate change activism. Our daily living routines are disrupted and we are overloaded with Zoom meetings and online lectures, and ecological issues have been shadowed by our life in front of computer screens.
But social distancing does not mean social isolation. Now more than ever, artistic thinking,
creativity and “do it yourself” approach can show new ways to work and interact.
AUGE Riga Ideathon will serve a platform for discussion on how arts, creativity, and digital
technologies can contribute to raising awareness of climate change issues and building a
‘greener’ and more sustainable Europe. This ideathon will explore creative and alternative ways and approaches to create a future vision based on “ecosystemic” perspective, which is more than just socially inclusive, namely, involving not only us, humans but also “non-humans”, all living beings on our planet, referring to the notions of “terrestrial co-existence” (Latour), and “natureculture” (Harraway) which suggests that culture shouldn’t be never been separated from nature…
RIXC ideathon will feature keynote panel on the role of art, creativity and DIY (Do It Yourself) in raising awareness about urgent ecological and social issues as well as artist led workshops during in which the participants will learn how to create “bacteria batteries” by using the electricity that’s produced by microorganisms which are found in mud, explore alternative, experimentally creative ways of how to work with photographic media without a camera or photo film and discover the meaning of DIY culture in our everyday life as well as the development of “sustainable robots”.
Program
Times in the program are scheduled in the local Riga time:
13.00 Riga, Thessaloniki time, EET (UTC+2) = 12.00 CET, Berlin, Milan time
13.00 – 14.30 Introduction and Keynote Panel
Rasa Smite. Climate “literacy”: What Art Can Do?
Lina Kusaite. Creative Alternatives in Climate thinking
Maija Demitere. Deep Sustainability: Grow (and Make) Your Own!
Discussion and introduction to the workshops
14.30 – 15.00 Lunch break..
15.00 – 15.30 .. continued by Open Session by RIXC and Partners
Virtual Tour through the RIXC’s project and new immersive art platform
https://immersive.rixc.org,
partner presentations AUGE climate change situation, art and activism case studies in Latvia, Germany, Italy, and Greece, 6 min (20 slides x 20 sec)
15.30 – 17.30 Workshops by artists (40 min, demo format) followed by the discussion
generating ideas. Participants split in 3 parallel Zoom break-out rooms.
How can art meaningfully contribute to raising awareness about climate change? How to give a voice to climate activists in the time of pandemic? What tactics and strategies we can learn from art, creativity and DIY practices?
Workshop 1. ‘LOCKDOWN’ BACTERIA BATTERIES, conducted by Moritz Schottmüller & Efren Trevisan
Workshop 2. ECOLOGIES OF IMAGES. CHEMICAL POLLUTION AND DIGITAL AGE, conducted by Kristine Krauze-Slucka.
Workshop 3. GROW ‘N MAKE YOUR OWN! FOOD AND SUSTAINABILITY ROBOTS, conducted by Maija Demitere, Rogier Jupijn (NL).
17.30 – 18.00 Final presentation of the generated ideas / Wrap up
