- Evening event
Shaping Utopias Methods and Practices in Art, Activism and Climate Research
How do artists, activists, and researchers collaborate through different practices to create utopias?
22.04.2026, 5pm–7pm – HKB, Auditorium, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern
Interviews of the Dreamers – Reflections on the Transdisciplinary EcoArtLab Collaboration.
The Institute of Eternal Utopias will take you on a twisted lecture that blends academic reflection with performative and embodied modes of presentation. Sharing an alchemical transformation on how we could look at the world, it will introduce you to their work, or will it unfold as a dream?
This event will elaborate on the motivations, frames, and actions of the Institute for Eternal Utopias. It will also reflect on the participatory action research process led by PhD researcher Johanna Paschen and share initial insights from multiple perspectives. The presentation will evolve into an open discussion, inviting collective reflection and dialogue.
17–17.30
Twisted Lecture Performance by NOAH
17.30–18
Reflection on the participatory action research process and sharing initial insights from multiple perspectives
18–18.30
Open Discussion Round
18.30–19
Apéro
Speaker
Emmeline Werner, Mads Kjærgaard Lange & Annika Nilsson, activists and artists, NOAH – Friends of the Earth Denmark; Asger Hougaard, lecturer and researcher, University of Copenhagen
Moderation
Johanna Paschen, researcher, EcoArtLab, Univeristy of Bern & Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB)
Host
Institute Practices & Theories in the Arts (HKB)
Information
Talk will be in English
Factsheet
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Start date
22.04.2026, 5pm–7pm
Add to calendar - Place HKB, Auditorium, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern