Which futures can we (not yet) imagine? On arts-based methods and shared climate-social visions
A lecture by Eva-Maria Schitter, Iris Laner and Maximilian Muhr as part of the lecture series Lectures for Future.
In our interactive session, we examine and experiment with art-based methods as instruments for developing shared climate-social imaginaries. We explore forms of knowledge that underpin these methods and reflect on the potentials and limitations of such transformational processes, which bring desirable future visions from the unthinkable into the imaginable.
Eva-Maria Schitter is a visual artist and researcher at the Department of Fine Arts and Design at Mozarteum University Salzburg. Her academic work focuses on collective aesthetic education, critical approaches to knowledge production within pedagogical contexts, and the integration of participatory and art-based processes in transdisciplinary frameworks.
Iris Laner has been a Professor of Fine Arts and Art Education since 2019. She leads the FWF individual project "Joint Aesthetic Judgments" and serves as both Coordinator and Principal Investigator in the transdisciplinary #ConnectingMinds project "Transforming Climate-Social Futures," in which she collaborates with researchers from practice and academia.
Maximilian Muhr is a sustainability scientist at the Institute of Development Research at BOKU University, where his research focuses on urban climate change and societal participation of marginalized groups. He is particularly interested in participatory, transdisciplinary, and arts-based research approaches. His teaching activities include theories of sustainability (at the University of Applied Arts Vienna), political ecology, and systems thinking.