Climate - Landscape - Art: Cultural Education in the Anthropocene
The symposium on 19 and 20 September will bring together current perspectives on cultural education in times of multiple ecological crises and put them up for discussion. It is a joint event organised by the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, the Plattform Kulturelle Bildung Brandenburg, the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg and the Berlin University of the Arts.
Climate change not only has an impact on ecosystems, landscapes and human living conditions, but also calls into question our understanding of nature, which has guided the natural sciences, humanities, education and art of the Western world up to now. The awareness that we live on a damaged planet brings nature - beyond its character as a resource for human purposes - into focus as a co-world of humans.
So if the climate crisis goes hand in hand with a process of changing world views, what does this mean for cultural education? What concepts of the relationship between humans and nature underlie its proven premises? Is the concept of sustainability as a value and objective sufficient or do we need a fundamental reformatting of concepts and a change in practice?
The conference will explore these questions in a keynote speech, in discussions with experts and practical panels, and will ask how cultural education can be shaped in the age of the Anthropocene.
The conference is aimed at scientists, cultural mediators and those involved in cultural education and education for sustainable development.
Programme and registration
19–20/09/2024
Climate - Landscape - Art: Cultural Education in the Anthropocene
Location: Orangery Palace & FH Potsdam (Lecture Hall D 0.11)
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