In a context marked by rapid environmental change and upheaval of ecosystems, Learning from the Unknown poses an essential question: how can we face up to ecological upheavals without giving in to flabbergasting, and what historical or sensitive responses have been mobilized in the past to deal with the unknown? What ways of living, creating and transmitting emerge when reference points falter?
From melting glaciers to colonial archives, from forgotten catastrophes to the fictional narratives of tomorrow, this symposium examines the ways in which societies, past and present, confront the unknown.
Bringing together archaeology, history, sociology, literature, art and architecture, speakers will explore the narratives, aesthetics and collective strategies that enable us to imagine other ways of navigating the unknown.
With :
Amita Baviskar, Rector and Professor of Environmental Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University
Jeanne Brun, art historian, Deputy Director of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou
Radha D’Souza, Professor of Law, University of Westminster
Olivier Dangles, Research Director, Centre d’écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive (CEFE), Montpellier
Thomas Doxiadis, landscape architect
Matthieu Duperrex, lecturer in human and social sciences, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Marseille
Magdalena Grüner, doctoral student, University of Hamburg
Ayesha Hameed, artist / Kone Foundation Fellow and Professor of Art Research, University of Helsinki
Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas, artists and filmmakers
Tom Hirst, musician
Diébédo Francis Kéré, architect, winner of the Pritzker Prize 2022
Catharina Landström, Head of Division, Chalmers University of Technology
Eric-Daniel Lacombe, architect
Christophe Leclercq, lecturer in art history and digital humanities, École du Louvre
Valérie Masson-Delmotte, research director at CEA and former co-chair of IPCC Group 1
Patricia Murrieta-Flores, co-director of the Centre for Digital Humanities at Lancaster University
Eléni Myrivili, Global Head of Heat for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Grégory Quenet, Professor of Environmental History, UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay
Paul-André Rosental, Professor of History, Sciences Po, Paris
Élodie Royer, independent curator and doctoral student, École normale supérieure
Thomas Schlesser, Director, Hartung-Bergman Foundation
Bas Smets, landscape architect, LUMA Arles landscape park
Jonas Staal, artist
Skylar Tibbits, founder and co-director of the Self-Assembly Lab, MIT
David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
