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
 

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  • Start date 22.04.2026, 5pm–7pm
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  • Place HKB, Auditorium, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern