Until October
15th : Call for Applications : Anthropocene
Campus Lisboa: Parallax : January 6-11, 2020
We
welcome applications for the Anthropocene
Campus Lisboa: Parallax
(ACL: Parallax), taking place at Culturgest
in
Lisbon, Portugal, between 6 and 11 January
2020. The Campus is
organised by the Portuguese research center CIUHCT
and
is part of the Anthropocene Curriculum
initiated by the Haus
der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
and
the Max
Planck Institute for the History of
Science (MPIWG),
which has generated two Anthropocene Campus in
Berlin (2014, 2016)
and several satellite events worldwide.
Like
previous editions, the Anthropocene Campus Lisboa:
Parallax is an
interdisciplinary event in which participants will be
working in
workshop-like seminars hosted by conveners. We
welcome the
attendance of students from higher education
institutions, scholars
from the sciences and the humanities, artists, and
activists. We
encourage participants to engage in sketching possible
collaborative
outputs in several formats (publications, videos,
artworks, research
projects, etc.) that will circulate in different
fora.
Core
topics in the discussion on environmental crisis will
be approached
through different perspectives: Inequality,
Turistification,
Big Data, Hacking, Animal Care, Popular Dwelling,
Sonic ecology,
Technological resistance, etc.
According
to its dictionary definition, parallax is «the effect
by which the
position of an object seems to change when it is
looked at from
different positions.» The challenges of the
Anthropocene demand
research actions that cut across disciplinary barriers
to create new
modes of making and sharing knowledge. But while a
transdisciplinary
approach is necessary, we should also restrain from
aiming at an
integrated framework. On the contrary, new actionable
insights may
spark only from an open, non-hierarchical and even
conflictual
exchange, in which multiple, and not necessarily
compatible,
perspectives on reality are at stake. Taking the
parallax effect
seriously means not to dismiss it as an error or as
“apparent”
movement. The movement is there, and we must move to
follow it.
The
Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax uses the parallax
effect to
engage with issues of environmental and social
transformation and
collapses highlighted by the term Anthropocene. To
that end, we
propose to organize a discussion around two
intertwined and
complementary but often divorced frameworks: on the
one hand, systems
of social and technological organization, which
determine the actions
that are possible within a given historical context;
and on the
other, perception and narrative, which determine our
limits for
understanding and imagining. Power and discourse are
negotiated,
challenged, and perpetuated through both means,
defining the
conditions for living in contemporaneity.
Participants
will participate in one seminar from each of
the two overarching
framework: Systems
of Social and Technological Organization
and
Perception
and Narrative.
To
apply please use exclusively the online application form in
https://parallax.ciuhct.org/