Climate Change: Cultural Practices and Socio-Economic Outcomes - 2024
The Summer School “Climate Change: Cultural Practices and Socio-Economic Outcomes” explores urgent issues connected to climate change, related cultural practices – in terms of imagery and forms of artistic expression – and their social and economic impacts. Through an interdisciplinary approach involving faculty from usually distant academic fields such as art history, physics and economics, a speculative approach will be developed, aimed at understanding the dramatic environmental condition that has taken shape with the advent of the Anthropocene. In particular, the educational project moves from a reconsideration of cultural practices as an engine of social processes based on forms of public engagement.
Monday 3 – Friday 7, June 2024
Department of the Arts
Teatro DAMSLab
Piazzetta P.P. Pasolini 5/b, Bologna
University of Bologna – Francesco Maria Spampinato
University of Helsinki – Silvia Gaiani
Jagiellonian University – Michał Pałasz and Anna Sławik
DAY 1 – June 3
Getting Together: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change (COLLABORATIVE)
9.00–10.00 Coffee and Registration
10.00–10:30 Welcome Session
- Francesco Spampinato (University of Bologna)
- Michał Pałasz and Anna Sławik (Jagiellonian University)
- Silvia Gaiani and Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki)
10:15–11:00 Integration & Interknowledge, Michał Pałasz (Jagiellonian University)
11.00–12.00 A Joint Unibo, JU, UH Effort Presentation: UNA Europa Micro-credential in Sustainability, Laura Riuttanen (University of Helsinki), Maciej Grodzicki (Jagiellonian University), Francesco Spampinato (University of Bologna)
12.00–12.10 Introduction to Collaborative Virtual Components, Sara Molho and Simona Maria Pagano (University of Bologna)
12.10–14:00 Lunch Break (available on-site at DAMSLab)
14.00–15:00 Individual Perspectives
- 14.00–14:20 Climate Change and the Arts, Francesco Spampinato (University of Bologna)
- 14:20–14:40 The End of the World as We Know It, Michał Pałasz (Jagiellonian University)
- 14:40–15.00 Socio-Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Implications for Innovation in Sustainable Food, Silvia Gaiani (University of Helsinki)
15.00–15.20 VR Installation Introduction, Beatrice Sartori (University of Bologna)
15.20–16.00 Clea T. Waite, The ‘Ice-Time’ Project: The Space-Time of Climate Change
16.00–17.00 VR Installation Experience
DAY 2 – June 4
System Change, Not Climate Change: Degrowth and Well-being (JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY)
9.00–10.00 Coffee
10.00–10:30 What is Degrowth? Idea and Propositions, Michał Pałasz (Jagiellonian University)
10:30–12.00 Degrowth Workshop, Michał Pałasz (Jagiellonian University)
12.00–14:00 Lunch Break (on your own)
14.00–14:30 Redefining Stakeholder Mapping for Higher Education Institutions in the Context of Sustainable Development, Anna Sławik (Jagiellonian University)
14:30–16:00 MISS® – an app that guides you through the process of identifying and prioritizing stakeholders https://miss.uj.edu.pl/en, Anna Sławik (Jagiellonian University)
16.00–17.00 Student Contribution
DAY 3 – June 5
Sustainable Food Systems (UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI)
9.00–10.00 Coffee
10.00–11.00 Climate Change and Food Sustainability. What’s the Connection?, Silvia Gaiani (University of Helsinki)
11.00–12.00 Responsibility and Social Norms Around Food in the Era of Climate Change, Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki)
12.00–14.00 Lunch Break (on your own)
14.00–16.00 Food systems and Climate Vulnerability: A Focus on Africa, workshop with Liana Ricci (University College of Dublin) and Giacomo Ciambotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano e E4Impact)
16.00–17:00 Visit to the Future Food Institute, Bologna
DAY 4 – June 6
Climate Change and the Arts: The Italian Fragile Ecosystem (UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA)
9.00–10.00 Coffee
10.00–10.20 Introduction: On Floods, Media Representations and Speculative Scenarios, Francesco Spampinato (University of Bologna)
10.20–11.00 Documentary Photography and Climate Change: The 2023 Emilia-Romagna Floods, Marco Solaroli (University of Bologna) and Michele Lapini (photographer)
11.00–11.20 Images from the Capitalocene. An Italian Visual Odyssey, Beatrice Sartori (University of Bologna)
11.20–11.40 Artists, Ecology and Politics in Italian Public Space in the Early 1970s, Sara Molho (University of Bologna)
11.40–12.00 Artistic Tactics for Climate Justice in Southern Italy, Simona Maria Pagano (University of Bologna)
12.00–14.00 Lunch Break (on your own)
14.00–15.00 Starting from Venice: Ecological Art Practices in the Anthropocene, Cristina Baldacci (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
15.00–16.00 Art, Activism and Agroecological Practices, Giulia Allegrini (University of Bologna) + Luigi Coppola (artist and agroecologist)
16.00–16.30 Towards a Sustainable Audiovisual Production: The Italian Green Film Rating System, Marco Cucco (University of Bologna)
16.30–17.00 Theatre Nature in Italy: Creative Strategies for Sustainable Approach to Landscape, Emanuele Regi (University of Bologna)
DAY 5 – June 7
Agency and Dignity of Nonhumans: Notes on the Future (COOPERATIVE)
9.00–10.00 Coffee and Certificates
10.00–11.00 Include Us! A Workshop on Radical Inclusion of Non-Humans in the Language or how Language Affects Climate, Michał Pałasz and Jakub Wydra (Jagiellonian University)
11.00–12.00 Participatory Debriefing Session from Miro and Beyond
12.00–14.00 Lunch Break (on your own)
14.00–16.00 Visit at MAST Foundation Bologna