Toni Hildebrandt nominated for the Bernese Award for Environmental Research 2023
Toni Hildebrandt's article The Aporia of Cinders and the Aporetic Structure of Hiroshima, mon amour has been nominated among 13 exceptional works for the Bernese Award for Environmental Research 2023.
Kultur als Motor für Nachhaltigkeit
Journalist Pieter Poldervaart on our conference REMEDIATIONS: Ecologies – Encounters – Engagements
Our Designer Kaj Lehmann is featured in the Swiss Design Awards 2021 Exhibition in Basel
The Swiss Design Awards 2021 exhibition organised by the Federal Office of Culture presents the 48 works nominated from among 247 entries. Our Designer, Kaj Lehmann, is presenting his typeface Synt, a research on late 19th-century modern typefaces — hot metal typefaces made for reading typography — and reimagining the genre in the context of today’s culture and technology. More information here, 20.09.2021.
Toni Hildebrandt nominated for the Bernese Award for Environmental Research 2021
Toni Hildebrandt's article Post-Apocalyptic Amazement: Aesthetics and Historical Consciousness in the Natural Contract has been nominated among 6 exceptional works for the Bernese Award for Environmental Research.
Qiao Hu, doctoral student of the SNSF Sinergia Mediating the Ecological Imperative, has been awarded a scholarship by the China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Qiao Hu has been awarded a scholarship by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to pursue her PhD research at the University of Bern. Her research project Mapping the Smellscape of Altermodern: Olfactory Art and Multidimensional Art History will explore how olfactory art brings into play the concept of relational aesthetics in order to reflect on the smellscape in altermodern, in which viewers' positions are replaced by participants and relations. Her dissertation project is part of the subproject Formations of the Ethical Imperative: From Postmodernity to Relational Aesthetics and the Contemporary Period, 1960–2019, under the lead of Prof. Dr. Peter J. Schneemann, 23.07.2021.
Swiss Mobiliar's Anniversary Foundation supports the SNSF Mediating the Ecological Imperative
Swiss Mobiliar's Anniversary Foundation generously supports the development and design of an interactive platform for the public outrearch of the SNSF Sinergia Mediating the Ecological Imperative in collaboration with designer Kaj Lehmann
Artist Encounters Series (2021-24)
A series of Artist Encounters (2021-24) is generously sponsored by the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, 19.05.2021.
Michaela Schäuble, with and without a camera
Julia Pelta Feldman on Michaela Schäuble's project Tarantism Revisited, 10.05.2021
Mit den Environmental Humanities gegen die Umweltkrise
Uniaktuell – Das Online Magazin der Universität Bern, 10.12.2020
Das Problem ist zu gross für ein einzelnes Fach
Interview (German) with cPI Prof. Dr. Peter J. Schneemann, 26.06.2020
Green Learning für alle
UniPress 179/2020
Wie Kultur unser Nachhaltigkeitsverständnis formt
Interview (German) with PI Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl (Vontobel Wealth Management Magazin «Inspiration» 2020)
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Voices is our public outreach format. In collecting short statements and responses from all society, we want to include otherwise unheard voices and foster a broader dialogue on the ecological imperative. We also want to relate our own conception to perspectives from outside academia. The format of Voices relies on Hito Steyerl's concept the poor image, which emphasizes the potential of easily accessible, low resolution footage brought to common use.
