17.09.2021 | 11:00 – 11:30 CET
TALK VIII
Energy, climate change and the endless push for economic growth: Why we need a different mindset, not new technology
Graeme Maxton, Climate change economist, author and former secretary general of the Club of Rome (online)

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Graeme Maxton is an internationally renowned climate-change economist, best-selling author and speaker on the challenges facing humanity – climate change, poverty, unemployment and inequality. His areas of expertise include international economic development, as well as geopolitics, climate change, sustainable business, energy, the automotive industry, the impact of aging on growth and the factors that inspire positive long-term human development.

A trenchant critic of modern economic thinking, Graeme Maxton is the author of seven internationally acclaimed books on climate change, energy, economics and the automotive industry, published in more than 20 different language editions. He is an Advisory Board Member on the UN’s Energy Pathways Project, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board at Population Matters.

His two most recent book on climate change, A Chicken can’t lay a Duck Egg: How Covid-19 can solve the climate crisis (written with Dr Bernice Maxton-Lee) and Globaler Klimanotstand (Global Climate Emergency), were both published in 2020 and explain how societies can overcome hurdles which stop them responding effectively to climate change and use the economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic to make radical social and economic changes and slow the pace of climate change. Graeme’s previous book Change! Warum wir eine radikale Wende brauchen (why we need a radical turnaround), published in 2018 was a No. 1 Amazon best-seller in Germany. He is also the co-author of Reinventing Prosperity: Managing economic growth to reduce unemployment, inequality and climate change (2016). The book was written with Jorgen Randers, one of the authors of 1972 book The Limits to Growth.

He is a former Full Member of the Club of Rome, where he was Secretary General between 2014 and 2018. Previously he was Regional Director with the Economist Group in Asia, a strategy consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, in banking with Citibank and American Express, and a visiting professor at Cass Business School in London from 1988 until 2004, where he taught courses on European business, economics, retail banking and corporate strategy. He has also written regularly for The Economist, The Guardian, The South China Morning Post, the Irish Times and the BBC as well as a wide range of other international and academic publications.

16.09.2021 | 21.05 – 21.35 CET
TALK
Materializing circular design
Areti Markopoulou, architect, researcher and urban technologist, academic director IAAC – Barcelona (online)

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Areti Markopoulou is an architect, researcher and urban technologist working at the intersection between architecture and digital technologies. She is the Academic Director at IAAC in Barcelona, where she also leads the Advanced Architecture Group, a multidisciplinary research group exploring how design and science can positively impact the way we live and interact by transforming the present and future of our built spaces.

Her research and practice focus on redefining the architecture of cities through an ecological and technological spectrum of combining design with biotechnologies, new materials, digital fabrication and big data.

Markopoulou is co-founder of the art/tech gallery StudioP52 in Barcelona and co-editor of Urban Next, a global network focused on rethinking architecture through the contemporary urban milieu. She is the project coordinator of several European Research funded projects on topics including urban regeneration through data science, circular design and construction and multidisciplinary educational models in the digital age.

She is the founder and current chair of the Responsive Cities International Symposium in Barcelona and as well as having her work featured in exhibitions worldwide. She has also served as a curator of international exhibitions such as Future Arena and On Site Robotics (Building Barcelona Construmat 2017-19), Print Matter (In3dustry 2016), HyperCity (Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale, 2015) and MyVeryOwnCity (World Bank, BR Barcelona, 2011). Together with Lydia Kallipoliti she has been appointed as the Head Curator for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022.

16.09.2021 | 17:20 – 18:00 CET
TALK I
New life
Theo Jansen, kinetic art creator (offline)

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Theo Jansen is a visual artist who builds “Strandbeests”, wind-driven, beach-walking kinetic sculptures that he calls a new form of life. Jansen studied physics at the University of Delft but left in 1974 to pursue what became a lifelong career in art – especially art explored through technology. Among his early projects, he built a machine that could paint and staged a convincing UFO encounter over Delft.

In 1990 Jansen began building Strandbeests, which he ultimately strives to equip with their own “brains”, granting them the ability to sense and respond to their environment and avoid obstacles such as the water. Eventually he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches of Holland to live their own lives.

Theo Jansen has been a regular columnist for the Dutch newspaper “Volkskrant” for 22 years and has had articles about his work published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Scientist, Wired and Popular Science. His exhibitions in Oita, Japan (2011), Madrid (2015) and at The Peabody Essex Museum (2015) in Salem MA, near Boston drew hundreds of thousands of visitors.  He has also written three books about art and evolution.

17.09.2021 | 10:00 – 10:30 CET
TALK VII
Social energy – powered by people
Karin Frick, Economist and futurologist, Head Think Tank, Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (online)

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Karin Frick is Head of Think Tank and a Member of the Executive Board at the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. As an economist, she has been researching and analysing trends and countertrends in business, society and consumption for over 15 years. Since graduating from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Karin Frick has held various positions in which she worked on future-related topics, innovation and change in people and markets. She was editor-in-chief of the well-known quarterly publication GDI IMPULS and managing director of the Swiss Society for Futures Studies (SwissFuture). She has analysed developments in the consumer-goods and service sectors both on behalf of noted companies and as in-house researcher for the GDI.

Photo: Sandra Blaser

16.09.2021 | 18.40 – 19.00 CET
TALK V
Black holes: The most efficient energy source in the universe
Fabio Pacucci, astrophysicist, Harvard University (offline)

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Fabio Pacucci is widely known for his contributions to the study of black holes and the early Universe and currently is the BHI and Clay Fellow at Harvard University and at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. His main field of research as a theoretical astrophysicist aims at understanding the formation, growth and properties of the first black holes formed in the Universe. He led the team that was able to discover the first two direct collapse black hole candidates known thus far and developed the tool which allowed them to do so, namely the first code to accurately predict the observational properties of high redshift black hole seeds GEMS (Growth of Early Massive Seeds). Pacucci was also part of the team that discovered the first strongly lensed quasar in the epoch of reionization in 2019, known as “the brightest quasar in the world”.

His work on black holes earned him several prizes including the International Astronomical Union Prize as well as the “Livio Gratton” Prize in 2017 for his Ph.D. Thesis on “The First Black Holes in the Cosmic Dark Ages”, which he received at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy.

Science education and outreach is another field where Fabio is active, with his most notable collaboration being with TED, which led to 5 educational video productions about black holes and astronomy that have been watched by millions of people and translated into 25 languages. Furthermore, he works as a student mentor, is a reviewer for several scientific magazines contributed to numerous talks and seminars and is the author of several scientific contributions to newspapers, magazines and books.

16.09.2021 | 19.40 – 19.50 CET
STATEMENT
Science & Art
Roland Psenner, President of Eurac Research

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16.09.2021 | 20.20 – 20.50 CET
TALK IV
Energy futures for a hospitable climate
Harald Desing, Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology, Technology and Society Lab, St. Gallen (online)

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Harald Desing is a Post Doc Researcher at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology (Empa) in St. Gallen focused on energy systems, product and service design, resource efficiency and mechanical engineering for a sustainable circular economy.

He obtained his Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich). Desing lectures on the subject of “Frontiers in Energy Research” at ETH Zürich and gives the class “Towards a Circular Economy: Conditions, Opportunities and Limits” at the University of St. Gallen.

16.09.2021 | 18.20 – 18.40 CET
TALK III
Energy – Relationality in focus
Theologian and environmental engineer, Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (offline)

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Sibylle Trawöger studied bio- and environmental technology, catholic theology and religious education and taught and researched at various Austrian universities. She is currently Junior Professor for Systematic Theology and its Didactics at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg.

Her research focuses on natural science and theology in dialogue, as well as the interdisciplinary examination of selected theories of art and cultural studies. She is a member of the board of the St. Stephan Forum.

17.09.2021 | 09.05 – 09.30 CET
TALK VI
Can psychic energies be used to produce magical effects?
Walter von Lucadou, Parapsychological counsellor

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Walter von Lucadou is a physicist and psychologist, which he studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg and the Free University of Berlin. He is considered a worldwide leading researcher in the field of parapsychology, specifically in systems theory and borderline areas of psychology.

After receiving a doctoral degree from both Universities, von Lucadou worked as Physicist at the Kiepenheuer Insitute for Solar Physics in Freiburg, as research assistant at the Department of Psychology and Borderline Areas of Psychology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and as Visiting Professor at the Parapsychology Laboratory of Utrecht University (NL). In 1989 he founded the Parapsychological Counselling Centre of the Scientific Society for the Promotion of Parapsychology (WGFP) in Freiburg which he has headed ever since.

Walter von Lucadou was co-publisher of several journals, among which the Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie (Journal for Parapsychology and Frontier Areas of Psychology) and the journal Cognitive Systems of the European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems (ECCSC). He also acted as scientific advisor for the six-part ARD documentary Dimension PSI on the greatest unsolved parapsychological mysteries broadcast in 2003 and has published more than 300 scientific and popular articles and 10 books about physics, psychology, system theory, and parapsychology.

17.09.2021 | 11.30 – 12.15 CET
PANEL DISCUSSION
Energy and passion
Michaela Egarter, Alpine guide

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Michaela Egarter is the first, and still on of the few, female alpine guides trained and professionally active in South Tyrol. Currently working at the “Alpinschule Pustertal” located in the Italian Dolomites, she’s been a nature lover since growing up as a child and longs for the outdoors as anchor in her life. Apart from climbing mountain tops, she also enjoys skitouring, freeriding and iceclimbing during the winter.

17.09.2021 | 11.30 – 12.15 CET
PANEL DISCUSSION
Energy and passion
Wolfram Sparber, Head of the Institute for Renewable Energy at Eurac Research

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Wolfram Sparber is heading the Institute for Renewable Energy at Eurac Research, which focuses on renewable energy applications and energy efficiency in buildings and cities and counts over 120 collaborators. Since 2020 he serves as vice president of The Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centers (EUREC) and before that as vice president of the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC Platform) for over 5 years.

Wolfram Sparber studied applied physics at Graz University of Technology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and closed his studies and worked for Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 2011 till 2019 he was chairman of the board of directors and chairman of the executive board of the North Italian energy supplier and utility company SEL later Alperia, one of the main renewable electricity producers in Italy offering a series of services in the field of sustainable energy. Since 2019 he is vice president of the advisory board.

He is co-author of a series of books, journal publications and conference proceedings, lately especially in the in the field of overall energy system modelling, urban energy transition and sustainable heating and cooling solutions.

16.09.2021 | 17:05 – 17:15 CET
OPENING WORDS
Energy!
Harald Pechlaner, Head of the Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research

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Harald Pechlaner is the head of the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research and holds the chair of Tourism at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. His research area concerns the sustainable destination development, selected questions about Global Governance combined with economics and politics as well as the impact of digitalization on democracy and the economy. Since 2014 he is Adjunct Research Professor at Curtin University (Perth, Australia) and President of AIEST (Association Internationale d’Experts Scientifiques du Tourisme), the oldest tourism experts’ association based in the St. Gallen University. Furthermore, Pechlaner is leading the Competence Center for Tourism in Berlin as Scientific Director and he is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Stefano Di Buduo is a German-Italian video artist, documentary filmmaker and photographer. After studying “Arts and Sciences of the Digital Performance” at the Università La Sapienza in Rome, where he also founded the multimedia company AESOPSTUDIO in 2008, his projects have taken him to France, Portugal, Denmark, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, USA, China, India, Iran and time and again to Germany and Italy. From 2005 he was engaged for many years as multimedia artist for the urban space project “Città Invisibili” (Invisible Cities) of the Italian Teatro Potlach, with guest performances in many cities in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

In 2009 Di Buduo created the virtual underwater world for the award-winning play “20,000 Miles Under the Sea” (after Jules Verne/Teatro Potlach). This was followed by video installations and video mappings in the context of international festivals and events such as “Vision of Odin” in Holstebro/Denmark, “Incubatio” in the Museo Nazionale Svevo of Manfredonia/Italy and the video mapping at the metro station Battistini in Rome.

He has a continuous cooperation with the directors Donald Berkenhoff, Yael Ronen and Brit Bartkowiak as well as with the outfitter and director Wolfgang Menardi. Most recently he has worked at the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Berliner Ensemble, the Munich Kammerspiele, the Stadttheater Ingolstadt and the Schauspiel Hannover.

Daisy Press, otherwise known as Voice Cult, will draw on multiple traditions for her performance in Bolzano.  In this presentation she will combine her years-long study of Hindustani music (Dhrupad and Khyal) with her intimate connection with Hildegard of Bingen, adding to this Daisy’s own deeply personal work and training as an energy healer.

PIANIST FOR MOUNTAIN & MAIDEN

Ein Film von Shmuel Hoffman & Anton von Heiseler
Mit einer Komposition von Sarah Nemtsov für Keyboard solo 

Christoph Grund, Keyboard/Klavier

Dauer ca. 24 Minuten

Der Film erzählt die Geschichte eines Tages im Leben von Aspiya, einem 10-jährigen Mädchen, das mit seiner Familie in Neu-Delhi in der Nähe der größten Mülldeponie Asiens lebt. Obwohl sie inmitten eines buchstäblichen Müllbergs arbeitet, ist Aspiyas Stimme letztlich eine der Hoffnung und der Würde. Die Komponistin Sarah Nemtsov hat die Musik zu diesem Film geschrieben. „Wie Musik dazu (er)finden? Ähnlich wie bei einen Stummfilm begleitet der Pianist Christoph Grund den Film, mal ergänzend, aber auch kontrastierend und verschachtelt mit dem Konzertflügel.

In der Projektserie Foreign Tongues untersucht Liquid Loft die komplexen Interaktionen zwischen sprachlichen Mitteilungen und deren physischen Begleiterscheinungen. Ausgangspunkt für die site-spezifischen Performances sind Sprachaufnahmen, die im Rahmen von persönlichen Interviews in verschiedenen Regionen Europas hergestellt wurden. 

Zufällige Begegnungen lassen neue Denk- und Sichtweisen zu und definieren nebenbei aber auch die Kommunikation, die zwischen den Menschen, unter dem Druck von Architektur, Materie und Landschaft entsteht. Die Fragen, wie (und unter welchen Vorzeichen) wir Sprache verwenden, wie eine gegebene Mitteilung vom anderen interpretiert wird, stehen im Zentrum dieser Arbeit. 

Credits

Tanz, Choreografie: Luke Baio, Dong Uk Kim, Katharina Meves, Dante Murillo, Hannah Timbrell
Künstlerische Leitung, Choreografie: Chris Haring
Komposition, Sound: Andreas Berger
Kostüme: Stefan Röhrle

IN SITU Koproduktionspartner: Atelier 231 (FR), Festival di Terni (IT), Freedom Festival (UK), La Strada Graz (AT), Lieux publics (FR), Norfolk & Norwich Festival (UK), Østfold kulturutvikling (NO), Oerol Festival (NL), Theater op de Markt (BE) and UZ Arts (UK).

Research-Partner: CDC Toulouse (FR), Dublin Dance Festival (IR), Tanz.Ist Dornbirn (AT), Opera Estate Festival Bassano del Grappa (I), DansBrabant (NL).
Foreign Tongues erhält als IN SITU Pilot Project eine Projektförderung über IN SITU ACT, ko-finanziert von der Europäischen Union über das Programm Creative Europe

Liquid Loft wird unterstützt von der MA7 Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien und dem BMKÖS Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport.