Climate Change: Artistic Interventions and Alternative Futures - 2025

Rethinking the Present: Art, Imagination and Alternative Futures

Unibo

• Demos, T. J. Radical Futurisms : Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come. London: Sternberg Press, 2023.
• López, Antonio, Adrian Ivakhiv, Stephen Rust, Miriam Tola, Alenda Y. Chang, and Kiu-wai Chu, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies. New York: Routledge, 2024.
• Taylor, Taryne Jade, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, eds. The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms. New York: Routledge, 2024.
• Lütticken, Sven, "From Re- to Pre- and Back Again", in Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, Arianna Sforzini (eds.), Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory, ICI Berlin Press, Berlin, 2022, pp. 1-16.
  
• Lund, Jacob, "Historicity", in Jacob Lund, Nicolas Malevé, Maj Ørskov, A Situated Terminology: For the Analysis of Artistic Practice Under Contemporary Conditions, 2024.
  
• Lund, Jacob, "Planetary", in Jacob Lund, Nicolas Malevé, Maj Ørskov, A Situated Terminology: For the Analysis of Artistic Practice Under Contemporary Conditions, 2024. 

The Post-Art of Survival: Enacting Speculative Gestures and Degrowing Academia

Jagiellonian University

• Kallis, Giorgos, In Defence of Degrowth. Ecological Economics 70, no. 5, pp.873–880, 2011 .
  
• York, Richard, and J. Adam McGee, "Understanding the Jevons Paradox", Environmental Sociology  2, no. 1, pp. 77–87,2015.
• Ward, James D., Philip C. Sutton, Adrian D. Werner, et al. Is Decoupling GDP Growth from Environmental Impact Possible? PLOS ONE 11, 2016: e0164733.
  
• Vuković, Marija B., Branko Ančić, and Mladen Domazet, "Values Underpinning a Degrowth Transformation of the Socio-Political System", in Traditiones , 49, no. 1, 2020: 141–158.
• Hickel, Jason, What Does Degrowth Mean? A Few Points of Clarification, in Globalizations 18, no. 7, pp.1105–1111, 2021.
  
• Pałasz, Mikołaj, Magdalena Pieniążek, and Julia Wydra, Language Affects Climate. Foundations of Science, 2024.
  
• James, Erin, Narrative in the Anthropocene, in Chapter 9: Narrative in the Anthropocene, pp. 183–202,  2022.
  
• Hage, Ghassan, Alter-Politics. Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2015
• Rosengarten, Marsha, Martin Savransky, and Alex Wilkie, eds. Speculative Research. The Lure of Possible Futures. New York and London: Routledge, 2017
• Stengers, Isabelle, The Insistence of Possibles. Towards a Speculative Pragmatism. Parse 7, 2017.
  
• Debaise, Didier, and Isabelle Stengers, eds. Gestes spéculatifs. Paris: Les presses du réel, 2015.

Video

• Jason Hickel on Economic Democracy (2024), Twitter.
• EUC Seminar Series 2023–2024. Aim High, Degrow: Dialogues on Degrowth. 
• Fairytales of Growth. 2020. Documentary.

Narratives of Climate Change: Re-imagining the Future with Stories

University of Helsinki

• Brady, Emily, Aesthetic Value, Ethics and Climate Change, Environmental Values 23, no. 5, 2014: 551–570. White Horse Press.
  
• Peary, Alexandria, and Tom C. Hunley, Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central.
  
• Sangervo, Julia, Kirsti M. Jylhä, and Panu Pihkala. Climate Anxiety: Conceptual Considerations, and Connections with Climate Hope and Action. Global Environmental Change 76, 2022

Climate Change: Cultural Practices and Socio-Economic Outcomes - 2024

System Change, Not Climate Change: Degrowth and Well-being

Jagiellonian University

• EUC Seminar Series 2023–2024. Aim High, Degrow: Dialogues on Degrowth.
• Fairytales of Growth. 2020. Documentary.
• Ferrando, Francesca. “Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, Metahumanism, and New Materialisms: Differences and Relations.” Existenz 8, no. 2 (2013): 26–32.
• Fitzpatrick, Nick, Timothée Parrique, and Inês Cosme. “Exploring Degrowth Policy Proposals: A Systematic Mapping with Thematic Synthesis.” Journal of Cleaner Production 365 (2022): 132764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132764.
• “Meet the Lefty Europeans Who Want to Shrink the Economy.” The Economist, 2023. 
• •  “A Response to The Economist: Shut Up and Let Me Grow,” 2023.
  • @remblance_erin. “Answer: A Response to The Economist: Shut Up and Let Me Grow.” X, August 10, 2023. https://x.com/remblance_erin/status/1689524589662269440.
  • @Agenda2030_LU. “Aim High, Degrow – Dialogues on Degrowth.” X, March 29, 2023. https://x.com/Agenda2030_LU/status/1641001544647573504.
  • @AnunaDe. “Degrowth Is Not About Going Back in Time. It’s about Going Forward Differently....” X, May 25, 2023. https://twitter.com/AnunaDe/status/1661711704466550788.
  • @AnunaDe. “We Need a Radical Transformation of Our Economic System. That Starts with Letting Go of the Growth Dogma....” X, May 19, 2023. https://twitter.com/AnunaDe/status/1659486023615643649.
• O’Neill, Daniel W., Andrew L. Fanning, William F. Lamb, and Julia K. Steinberger. “A Good Life for All within Planetary Boundaries.” Nature Sustainability 1 (2018): 88–95. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0021-4.
• Pałasz, Michał, Maria Pieniążek, and Jakub Wydra. “Language Affects Climate.” Foundations of Science (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-024-09952-1.

Sustainable Food Systems

University of Helsinky

• European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Maggiore, A., Afonso, A., Barrucci, A., and De Sanctis, G. Climate Change as a Driver of Emerging Risks for Food and Feed Safety, Plant, Animal Health and Nutritional Quality. EFSA Supporting Publication 2020; 17(6): EN-1881. 146 pp. 2020.
• OECD. Enhancing Climate Change Mitigation through Agriculture. Paris: OECD Publishing, 2019.
• Hormio, Säde. “Shared Social Orientation and Responsibility as Constituents.” In Taking Responsibility for Climate Change, 73–100. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 10.1007/978-3-031-51753-2_4
• Kortetmäki, Teea. “What Is (Not) the Point of Just Transition in Food Systems?” In Transforming Food Systems: Ethics, Innovation and Responsibility: EurSafe 2022 Edinburgh, edited by D. Bruce and A. Bruce, 52–57. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2022.
• World Food Programme. Better Food, Better World podcast. Launched 2023.

Climate Change and the Arts: The Italian Fragile Ecosystem

University of Bologna

• Baldacci, Cristina, “An Archipelago of Ecological Care: Venice, Its Lagoon, and Contemporary Art" , in LAGOONSCAPES, vol. 3, 321–333, 2023.
• Cucco, Marco, Massimo Scaglioni, Anna Sfardini, and Gertjan Willems, (eds.) “Sustainable Screenings : Economic, Touristic and Cultural Impact of Audiovisual Productions on the Host Locations in the Post-Lockdown Era” in COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI, 2022 
  
• Fowkes, Maja, and Reuben Fowkes, World of Art: Art and Climate Change, Thames & Hudson, 2022.
• Mirzoeff, Nicholas, How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More, Basic Books, 2016.
• Regi, Emanuele, “A Matter of Relationships: Dramatising, Staging and Planning Ecological Performances” in Itinera, no. 25, 2023
• Broken Nature, XXII Triennale di Milano, Milan: Triennale, 2019.
• Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics. Karlsruhe: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2020.