In the light of current times, the Foundation is broadening its field of exploration to include ecological issues through a series of online and live conversations “Word of Makers: facing the ecological crisis”. Artists, scientists and searchers are invited to question today’s world and create new narratives to draw more desirable futures:
- Which commitment and responsibility do the artist and the philosopher have regarding this crisis?
- How are artistic and writing practices impacted? Which behaviour should individually and collectively be implemented?
- What new way to produce and display art while public engagement becomes increasingly immaterial?
- Which vision and creativeness to be impulsed for reinventing tomorrow’s world?
Guests: Tiphaine Calmettes, visual artist and Emmanuel Hache, economist-prospector at IFP Énergies nouvelles and research director at IRIS - Institute for International and Strategic Relations.
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Themes: Fit-to-eat narratives / Conceiving artistic creation as a living organism / Notion of resource and sobriety / Necessity of utopia / Green technologies and greenwashing / Difference between sobriety and degrowth in the face of the ecological emergency (Getting out of the restrictive vision of degrowth that scares people)
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Le Champignon de la fin du monde, La Découverte, 2017
Jean Giono, Que ma joie demeure, Grasset, 1935
David Abram, Comment la terre s'est tue : pour une écologie des sens, La Découverte, 2013
