Summer School in Climate Change, Indigenous Perspectives and Artistic Utopias
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 (University of Helsinki) 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. The course combines lecture-based sessions with interactive workshops, including a videogame development jam, alongside sound performances, an artistic VR installation, and other practice-led, horizontal and participatory activities designed to foster dialogue and active engagement among participants. The program also includes a visit to a local cultural space.
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.
