ECOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE

Voices is our public outreach format. In collecting short statements and responses from all society, we want to include otherwise unheard voices and foster a broader dialogue on the ecological imperative. We also want to relate our own conception to perspectives from outside academia. The format of Voices relies on Hito Steyerl's concept the poor image, which emphasizes the potential of easily accessible, low resolution footage brought to common use... Our research approach brings together researchers from four distinct disciplines. By jointly developing methods and analyzing case studies, we adhere to an interdisciplinary agenda that allows us to understand how complex twentieth and twenty-first century cultural production mediates the urgent ecological imperative of our time. The close collaboration of word and image specialists will establish an analytical framework for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research in the environmental humanities by conceptualizing four modes of..

Primary location: Bern