Summer School in Climate Change, Indigenous Perspectives and Artistic Utopias in

The Summer School examines how cultural practices can generate responses – speculative, concrete, political and communal – to the multiple crises of climate change, from perspectives beyond Western paradigms. CoE researchers Outi Laiti and Nicola Renzi contribute to the course through lecture-based sessions and interactive workshops.

Summer School description

The Summer School “Climate Change, Indigenous Perspectives and Artistic Utopias” explores urgent questions surrounding climate change through an interdisciplinary lens, bringing together scholars from diverse and seemingly distant academic fields.

The program examines how cultural practices can generate responses – speculative, concrete, political and communal – to the multiple crises of climate change, from perspectives beyond Western paradigms.

Our CoE researchers Outi Kaarina Laiti and Nicola Renzi (University of Helsinki) are contributing to the course.

The course combines lecture-based sessions with interactive workshops, including a videogame development jam by Outi Kaarina Laiti, alongside sound performances by Nicola Renzi, as well as an artistic VR installation, and other practice-led, horizontal and participatory activities designed to foster dialogue and active engagement among participants.

The Summer School is organised as part of the Una Europa Micro-Credential in Sustainability, developed jointly by the University of Helsinki, Jagiellonian University, and Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna.

Summer School programme

The Summer School programme is available here.

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