The plenary sessions took place during the exhibition “DEAR2050: Humans Respond to Climate Change”, featuring international climate scientists, activists and artists speaking about challenging topics related to Climate Change. 

An unseren Podiumsgesprächen haben sich während der Ausstellung “DEAR2050: Antworten auf den Klimawandel” internationale Wissenschaftler:innen, Künstler:innen und Aktivist:innen mit spannenden Themen auseinandergesetzt – die Videos dazu findest du hier.

Plenaries programme

October 25. Tribute to Konrad Steffen: The Arctic and Climate Change.

• Introductory address by Michel Bourqui
• Diane Burko speaking
• Jason Box speaking
• Thomas Stocker speaking

October 27. We pollute, thus we are!?

• Kathleen A. Mar speaking
• Claudia Schildknecht speaking
• Marie-Claire Graf and Martina Rapp speaking

October 29. Upstream into the future: about restoration, community, and traditional knowledge.

• Tero Mustonen speaking
• Chantal Bilodeau speaking
• Matthew Skjonsberg speaking

October 30. How extreme can it be? Rebels asking for the storm.

• Friederike Otto speaking
• Chris Wilmott speaking
• Irmi Seidl speaking
• Anna-Lena Mayer & Jakob Winkler speaking

October 31. What if we used our power? Courage is as contagious as fear.

• Paribesh Pradhan speaking
• Fernando Aranda speaking

November 1. Forests for future.

• Jordi Jon Pardo speaking
• Charlotte Grossiord speaking
• Franziska Elmer speaking

November 5. Creatively responsible or responsibly creative?

• Sige Nagel speaking
• Marcel Bernet speaking
• Friederike Rass speaking