This thematic line speaks to the role of art and design in addressing climate crises and the increased planetary kinships and urgencies that come with it.
Using tools and methods such as speculation, audiovisual experiences, performative interventions or collective rituals, applied artistic and design research can create more-than-human agency, thus producing circular, reparative and future-oriented knowledge.
Handpoke sele tattoos in the mountains by s†ëf/\n sch/\efer
Hochvlogel front gap by s†ëf/\n sch/\efer
Workshare at the AHK Academy of Theatre and Dance for MA Choreography 2025 by s†ëf/\n sch/\efer
Visual outcome from the participatory workshop series 'It Happened Tomorrow' by Carlo De Gaetano, where participants rework archival images through drawing, storytelling, and AI to imagine more-than-human futures in a country transformed by rising sea levels
Image from Carlo De Gaetano’s contribution to the Slow AI publication 'Restless Grounds', where he uses climate fiction and experimental visual methods to reflect on the intellectual and emotional landscape of his research practice.
From the print series 'Understanding Home' by Carlo De Gaetano, developed through gelatin plate image transfers using houseplant leaves link intimate memories of home with broader questions of displacement and solidarity, including this work’s presentation in a charity auction supporting relief efforts in Lebanon
'Queer as the Ocean' portrait series: investigates interspecies relationships within aquatic environments (with generative AI as a device for climate fiction) by Carlo De Gaetano
Ecological Response-Ability work session at PD A+C Symposium 2025 (picture by Barbara Medo)
Ecological Response-Ability work session at PD A+C Symposium 2025 (picture by Barbara Medo)
Ecological Response-Ability work session at PD A+C Symposium 2025 (picture by Barbara Medo)
s†ëf/\n sch/\efer in mountain costume by Carly Everaert in Ecological Response-Ability work session at PD A+C Symposium 2025 (picture by Barbara Medo)