A warm welcome… … to the Earth Futures symposium!...Lunchtime Agenda: four plenaries, enough...

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A warm welcome…

… to the Earth Futures symposium!

Aarti Gupta and Gerlinde De Deyn

October 19, 2018

Rationale and Themes: What and Why

Art Meets Science

Agenda for the Day

Opening and Introduction

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What and Why

Rationale

Celebrate WUR@100!

Leverage interdisciplinarity at WUR and beyond

One coherent conversation: no parallel sessions!

Themes

Timely, vitally important,

inescapable

Inter-related but how? 3

Artists Creative Innovations

Designer questioning

the significance of

daily-life products

Scenographer, performer,

operating in the fields of

sensory experience,

architecture & social

interaction

Visual artist working in

video & photographic

medium

New York based

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Cody Healey-ConellyLudmila RodriguesGionata Gatto

ESG & AFSG ESG & SSGESG & ASG

Lunchtime

Agenda: four plenaries, enough breaks and

networking options…

Small change: first break 10 min. longer, lunch

10 min. shorter to catch up!

Session 2 starts at 11.10, lunch at 12.40

Agenda

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Plenary Session – I

Theme: The Anthropocene

Humans as a geological force,

impacting earth system parameters

• Meaning(s) of this concept?

• What do different ideas about the

Anthropocene imply for diverse

research agendas going forward? For

political action and opportunities?

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Our speakers

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Prof. Wouter PetersProfessor of Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric composition, WUR, and University of Groningen

Prof. Arthur Mol

Professor of

Environmental Policy and

Rector Magnificus (Vice-

President), WUR

Dr. Eva Lovbrand

Associate Professor of

Water and Environmental

Studies, Linköping

University, Sweden

The Anthropocene through an artist’s eye

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Gionata Gatto

Italian designer working in Rotterdam

ArtistCreative Innovation, 100@years WUR

Plenary Session – II

Theme: Inequality

Implications for Earth System

Research and Governance

• trends across the globe,

historic, and future outlook

• various dimensions of

inequality: a major challenge

in the pursuit of global

sustainability

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Our speakers

Prof. Bas van Bavel

Chair of Transitions of

Economy and Society,

Utrecht University

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Dr. Narasimha Rao

International Institute

for Applied Systems

Analysis (IIASA), Vienna

Prof. Bram Büscher

Chair of Sociology of Development & ChangeWUR

Works between sculpture and

performance, creating spaces, situations

and devices to trigger social collaboration.

Degree in Architecture and in Arts, also a

background in dance and martial arts.

Artwork today: an experiment on

collaboration, patterns of movement and

change!

Our artist: Ludmila Rodrigues

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Plenary Session – III

Theme: Biosphere –

Technosphere interactions

Our artist:

Cody Healey-Conelly

SyntheticLives

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PLANET TRIAGEhttps://vimeo.com/280104676

Plenary Session – III

Theme: Biosphere –

Technosphere interactions

The role of science and

technology in imagining, and

calling into being, diverse Earth

Futures?

The politics of visualizing, and

seeking to engineer, earth

system transformations?

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Our speakers

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Prof. Esther Turnhout

Professor of the Politics

of Environmental

Knowledge at the Forest

and Nature Conservation

Policy Group, WUR

Dr. Heleen de

Coninck, Associate prof.

of Innovation Studies,

Radboud University

Prof. Martin Herold

Professor of

Geoinformation Science

and Remote Sensing, WUR

Plenary Session – IV

Theme: Earth Futures:

Research and Action Agendas

What are effective and equitable

trajectories in interdisciplinary

scholarship and societal

engagement, going forward?

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Music by Sytze Pruiksma

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Our speakers

Prof. Katrina Brown

Chair Social Science,

University of Exeter

(UK)

Ir. Natasja

Oerlemans

Head Food &

Agriculture, WWF

Netherlands

Dr. John Ingram

Environmental

Change Institute,

University of Oxford

(UK)

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Prof. David Kleijn

Chair Plant

Ecology & Nature

Conservation,

WUR

Music by Sytze Pruiksma

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Closing

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• Take home messages?

• Shared output?

And the best part:

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THANKS to our wonderful speakers and audience!!

And a very big thanks to the fabulous 100years WUR team!!