What Does the Land Say?
Principal delegates: Ravi Agarwal and Nitoo Das
Respondents: students of ZHdK
What does the land have to say about pesticides, synthetic nitrogen petrol-based fertilization, deforestation, GMO, plastic pollution, disappearing lakes?
Day 1 Session 2
How to Live Well?
Principal delegate: Ernst Götsch
Respondents: Damian Christinger and students of ZHdK
Secure access to land for cultivation and farming has become a pivotal issue for many rural communities.
Day 1 Session 3
Climate Peace
Principal delegates: John Palmesino, Maya Kóvskaya
Respondents: Dorothee Richter and students of ZHdK
As climate change brings more extreme weather, monsoon disruptions, flooding, drought, sea level rise, and rapid glacial melting, it plays an ever-greater role in shaping geopolitics.
Day 1 Session 4
Discussion and an African Dinner
Principal delegates: Apiyo Brändle Amolo
Discussion and an African dinner prepared by delegate Apiyo Brändle Amolo and the organization Pawa.
Day 2 Session 1
What Does the Future Want?
Principal delegates: Luiz Alberto Oliveira, Telo Tulku Rinpoche
Respondents: Urs Mueller und students of ZHAW
Looking ahead into planetary futures, we interrogate and call upon the voices of futurity from our diverse positions…
Day 2 Session 2
What Is Knowledge?
Principal delegates: Petra Baettig-Frey and Monica Ursina Jaeger, Clémentine Delisse
Respondents: Txanabane Huni Kuin, Fabio Rubio Scarano and students
In a green valley located on the hills of Lake Zurich, Switzerland, the team of “Sustainability Communication” at the Institute of Natural Resource Sciences ZHAW explores the possibilities of new communication methods.
Day 2 Session 3
Ancestral Futures
Principal delegates: Jeremy Narby and Daniela Zyman
Respondent: Ernesto Neto, Delzimar Acrino Yawanawa, Damian Christinger
The cosmogonic reversal of evolution, and the role of beings therein, invites a radical rethinking of what was called modern and rational for over four centuries.
Day 2 Session 4
We Are Nature
Principal delegates: Emanuele Coccia, Fabio Rubio Scarano
Respondents: students of ZHdK
Indigenous views of nature and life, as described by Eduardo Viveiros de Castros are based on the idea of “multi-naturalism,” a finely defined realm of both self-similarity and difference within the world of plants, animals, and humans expressing different embodiments and affects.
Day 2 Session 5
Discussion and an African Dinner
Principal delegates: Apiyo Brändle Amolo
Discussion and an African dinner prepared by delegate Apiyo Brändle Amolo and the organization Pawa.
