[phd.students.socioeco] Art & Science - Project Biosphere n+1

[Dieter, Armin]

Dear colleagues,

please find below the invitation to an event that could be of interest, at Boku on Monday.

All the best,

Armin

https://www.facebook.com/events/324263981058641/?ref=22
http://artscience.uni-ak.ac.at/jart/prj3/art_science/main.jart

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Transdisciplinary Play in 3 Acts: Monday 23 June 2014, 10:00–18:00

Exhibition: 24 – 27 June 2014, 07:00-21:00

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Foyer
of Franz Schwackhöfer Haus, Peter Jordan-Straße 82, 1190 Vienna

Envisioning a sustainable future of our planet leads to many attempts
to integrate scientific disciplines and respective research methods.
Biosphere 2 was a living model world with the aim to study the
interactions between humans, farming and technology. The ecological
experiment was implemented in the 1990s in the Arizona desert and tried
to build a closed, independent system that resembled the most important
factors of Earth’s ecosystem. Compared to today’s fine-tuned
computational models, which are used to understand, simulate and control
real-world systems and tackle transformation towards sustainability, the
project of Biosphere 2 can serve as a model for an experimental and
performative mode of living that dreams of new ways of doing the natural
and the social. The cooperation between students of the Art & Science
master’s programme and the Doctoral School of Sustainable Development
uses Biosphere 2 as a starting point to develop a transdisciplinary play
that enacts “biospherian” versions of sustainability.
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