Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
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
2
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
4
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
5
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?
6
Our speakers
7
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
8
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
9
Our speakers
Prof. Bas van Bavel
Chair of Transitions of
Economy and Society,
Utrecht University
10
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
11
Plenary Session – III
Theme: Biosphere –
Technosphere interactions
Our artist:
Cody Healey-Conelly
SyntheticLives
12
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?
14
Our speakers
15
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?
16
Music by Sytze Pruiksma
17
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)
18
Prof. David Kleijn
Chair Plant
Ecology & Nature
Conservation,
WUR
Music by Sytze Pruiksma
19
Closing
20
• Take home messages?
• Shared output?
And the best part:
21
THANKS to our wonderful speakers and audience!!
And a very big thanks to the fabulous 100years WUR team!!
