Making / Thinking: The Cultural Tomorrow

The process of climate change is a dramatic multidimensional phenomenon signaling the need for a fundamental shift and renewal of cultural agency. The transmediale.09 conference Making / Thinking proposes an open forum of debate, creating a space between manifesto and how-to for revealing the complex dynamic of this planetary transformation process and considering its impact on social, cultural and political systems. Emerging from veritable geo-political blind spots, paradigmatic events in human history - such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center or the most recent banking crisis - seem to unleash their radical capacity all at once, breaking through history, blowing across boundaries and ripping through political systems and cultural traditions.

13.00 hrs: Opening Lecture by Claus Leggewie: ClimateCulture - Climate change as cultural change

14.00 hrs: Opening of the Conference by Rob van Kranenburg: Making/Thinking: The Cultural Tomorrow

14.30 hrs: Discussion with Paul Aarulaq Quassa (a major figure in both the political and cultural landscape of Nunavut) and the French philosopher Michel Tibon-Cornillot, chaired by Rob van Kranenburg (Head of Public Domain at Waag Society, Amsterdam).

More information: www.transmediale.de

A project of the Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in collaboration with the House of World Cultures, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation