BIOSPHERE n+1
Models and Realities: Versions of Sustainability
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Transdisciplinary Play in 3 Acts: Monday 23 June 2014, 10:00–18:00
Exhibition: 24 – 27 June 2014, 07:00-21:00
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU),
Foyer of Franz Schwackhöfer Haus, Peter Jordan-Straße 82, 1190 ViennaEnvisioning a sustainable future of our planet leads to many attempts to integrate scientific disciplines and respective research methods. Biosphere 2 was a living model world with the aim to study the interactions between humans, farming and technology. The ecological experiment was implemented in the 1990s in the Arizona desert and tried to build a closed, independent system that resembled the most important factors of Earth’s ecosystem. Compared to today’s fine-tuned computational models, which are used to understand, simulate and control real-world systems and tackle transformation towards sustainability, the project of Biosphere 2 can serve as a model for an experimental and performative mode of living that dreams of new ways of doing the natural and the social. The cooperation between students of the Art & Science master’s programme and the Doctoral School of Sustainable Development uses Biosphere 2 as a starting point to develop a transdisciplinary play that enacts “biospherian” versions of sustainability.
Schedule:
Check-in / 09:00–10:00
Introduction / 10:00–10:45
Act 1 / 11:00–12:30
Act 2 / 13:45–15:15
Act 3 / 15:30–17:00
Wrap-up / 17:15–18:00
Choice of modules for act 1–3:
Metaphysics of Opportunity Costs – Shaping Spaces of Sustainability
Making decisions is a complex process. Not only does it require the individual to take into account various factors like opportunity costs, estimated consequences of a decision and the workload involved, it almost always involves communication and collaboration with others as well. The importance of a factor has to be considered and discussed. More often than not it turns out, that what seems sustainable to one actor is considered beside the point and not taken as seriously by another.
By asking you to cooperate in small groups to construct a sustainable landscape and attach specific properties to the materials
involved, you are confronted with a (playful) decision making process. The outcome will be transferred to a model and assessed.
The collaborative creative action reflects the qualities of apparently mainly rational scientific and less rational artistic
decision making and gives an idea how those different approaches can cross-fertilize. The resulting patchwork landscape-sculptures
will be displayed in the foyer.
Meat the Action! Arena
Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes: Play the role of a stakeholder discussing and deciding on the issue of artificial meat.
Followed by an analysis of the discussion.
The Green Storm
maNature – The Missing Gap
IPCC-reports that agriculture contributes to a large extent to the greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. In a referendum the public asked the government to enhance climate protection in agriculture.
Now, you as the government get a certain budget to develop strategies and to support and fund solutions and present them in a press conference.
Publication Quota
Taste the Abstract
Biosphere 2 and Performative Research - Lecture by Ralo Mayer
Involving:
Christian Baumgartner (Naturfreunde International), Konrad Domig (Institute of Food Science, BOKU), Josef Glössl (Vice Rector for Research, BOKU), Katharina Gugerell (University of Groningen), Karl Hogl (Institute of Forest, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy, BOKU), Bernd Kräftner (Art & Science, Angewandte), Rodrigo Lozano (Corporate Sustainability, University Utrecht), Ralo Mayer (Artist), Andreas Muhar (Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning, BOKU), Christian Mu?nchner (ReThink), Marianne Penker (Sustainable Economic Development, BOKU), Kumela Nedessa (BOKU), Christian Pohl (Transdisciplinarity, ETH Zurich), Michael Proschek-Hauptmann (Umweltdachverband), Martin Reinhart (Artist), Werner Schneider (BOKU), Martin Schönhart (BOKU), Patricia Stokowski (Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont), Virgil Widrich (Art & Science, Angewandte), Christoph Winckler (Sustainable Agriculture Systems, BOKU)Michael Braito, Kerstin Böck, Margit Busch, Ana Daldon, Benedict Endler, Andrea Hermann, Matilde Igual Capdevila, Adrijan Karavdic, Mathias Kirchner, Martina Lang, Tamara Mitrofanenko, Hermine Mitter, Gerardo Montes de Oca Valadez, Kiengkay Ounmany, Anna-Sophie Santner, Katharina Schodl, Peter Walder
Art & Science
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Team
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Students
- Margit Busch
- Benedict Endler (Exhibited)
- Matilde Igual Capdevila (Exhibited)
- Adrijan Karavdic (Exhibited)
- Martina Lang (Exhibited)
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Alumni
- Ana Daldon (Exhibited)
- Gerardo Montes de Oca Valadez (Exhibited)
- Simon Sailer (Actor)
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Institutions