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Ever heard a river speak? Come meet the Lahn, it has a lot to say. Opening Tuesday 24 June at @lahnfenster_giessen_official from 13-15. By creating an avatar for the Lahn River, this project explores the paradox of using technology to express the potential interests of an ecosystem. Experience a novel way of interacting with the Lahn via an AI powered interactive sculpture serving as a voice to the river, using real-time environmental data, research, and regional cultural knowledge. By blending art, science, and community engagement, the Lahn Avatar invites us to listen, feel, and act — remembering a future where rivers speak and we listen Created by Danilo Olivaz and Ingvild Syntropia - 2025 Fellows in the Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Program at the Panel on Planetary Thinking, Justus Liebig University. Teaser directed by @ingvild_syntropia Edited by @brunodecc DoP @younesxlaaguidi Music by @keithrodway / @necessaryanimals #listentotheriver #rightsofnature #beyondhuman #kinship #bioregionalism #crosspeciesdemocracy
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10 months ago
As the year draws to a close, we look back at From Relations to Politics: Pathways Toward a Planetary Praxis. Held from 18–20 November 2025 at Schloss Rauischholzhausen, the event served as the concluding conference of the Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Program (2022–2025). The conference brought together the 2025 Planetary Agency/Politics Fellows — Danilo Olivaz, Ingvild Syntropia @ingvild_syntropia , Sophie von Redecker, Eva Meijer, Erle Ellis @prof_erle_ellis , Milja Kurki @kurkimilja , Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings @echolology , and Stefan Pedersen — in dialogue with former fellows Claudia J. Ford, Jason Waite @jasonhwaite , and Lukáš Likavčan @lukas_likavcan . They were joined by invited scholars, artists, and practitioners from across disciplines, including Patrizia Nanz, Frederic Hanusch @frederic.hanusch , Jonathan Ledgard, Martin de Jong, Miranda Whall @mirandawhall , Alexandra Toland @soilkin_alex , Adam Frank @adamfrankscience , Azucena Morán, Frank Biermann, Anthony Burke, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Liza Bauer, Angie Pepper, Ólafur Páll Jónsson @olafur_pall , Ole Martin Sandberg, Patrick Flamm, Maarten A. Hajer, Brandon Letsinger, and Claus Leggewie. Moving beyond response toward praxis, the conference asked: How can we build knowledge, imagination, and practices that sustain planetary habitability? 🎥 A YouTube playlist is now live — revisit the sessions and conversations. 🔗 Link in bio #FromRelationsToPolitics #PlanetaryThinking #PlanetaryPraxis #ArtAndScience #PlanetaryFutures ClimateCulture JLUgiessen
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4 months ago
🌍 Final Conference - From Relations to Politics: Pathways Toward a Planetary Praxis 🌍 From Nov. 18-20, for three days, @schlosshotelrauischholzhausen hosted the concluding gathering of the Planetary Scholars and Artists in Residence Program. Fellows, alumni and invited contributors - Danilo Olivaz, @ingvild_syntropia , Sophie von Redecker, Eva Meijer, @prof_erle_ellis , @kurkimilja , @echolology , Stefan Pedersen, Claudia J. Ford, @jasonhwaite , @lukas_likavcan , Patrizia Nanz, @frederic.hanusch , Jonathan Ledgard, Martin de Jong, @mirandawhall , @soilkin_alex , @adamfrankscience , Azucena Morán, Frank Biermann, Anthony Burke, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Liza Bauer, Angie Pepper, @olafur_pall , Ole Martin Sandberg, Patrick Flamm, Maarten A. Hajer and others - came together across disciplines, practices and ways of knowing. Via ten pathways - cooperation, localisation, embodiment, recognition, communication, contemplation, interaction, relations, negotiation and invention - participants engaged with the conception and practice of planetary politics. Themes addressed range from engaging with soil, ice, rivers, and technospheres, to the idea of more-than-human deliberation, the grappling with planetary time, and more. The question of how humans and the Earth might shape futures together united these discussions. We look forward to seeing how the authors’ meeting for "Planetary Politics: Puzzles for Political Science" – a collective publication project rounding off the conference – which will carry this dialogue beyond the castle walls. As the Panel on Planetary Thinking concluded its three-year program, what remains are open invitations to nurture planetary thinking with humility, curiosity and companionship across disciplines, species and worlds. 📌 For the full report, see the link in our bio. #planetarythinking #planetarypolitics #multispeciesfutures #praxis #jlu #panelonplanetarythinking #morethanhuman #planetarytimes #planetaryintelligence
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5 months ago
We’re happy to share our interview with @echolology Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings, Planetary Politics Winter Fellow, artist, and researcher with an ecological focus. In October, Angela spoke with us about her project entitled: Glacial Vocabulary – a set of performance scores that aims at attuning humans to the sensorial and semantic worlds of glaciers. This project is connected to the initiative Snæfellsjökul fyrir forseta, which she has co-founded with more than 50 collaborators and which nominated a glacier for president during the Icelandic campaign in 2024. In this panel, she shares her experience engaging with more-than-human agencies, exploring modes of listening and being with them. 👉 Would you like to learn more? 🔗 Check out the link in Bio #MoreThanHuman #GlacialVocabulary #EcocentricArt #ParticipatoryEcology #IcelandicGlacierProject #DemocracyPrototype #PoliticalTheatre #EnvironmentalEmbodiment #GeoSemiotics #GlacierForPresident
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5 months ago
We’re thrilled to share an update from the project “Desert Pavements – A Geomorphological and Geoecological Phenomenon of Global Significance” led by Prof. Dr. Markus Fuchs and funded in context of our Planetary Futures Competition Vol. III (2024/25)! 🌍 This fall, the interdisciplinary research team has successfully completed their field trip in southern Namibia—taking an important step toward deepening our understanding of these widespread yet understudied surface formations. Their investigations span geomorphology, soil science, geomicrobiology, and atmospheric and data sciences, bringing together crucial insights into how desert pavements influence landform evolution, soil water dynamics, microbial activity, and dust transport. As a result of their trip, the team has submitted a funding application to the German Research Foundation to advance their research in a larger context. We’re holding our thumbs for a positive outcome and look forward to seeing this work continue to unfold! With the support by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Arts and Culture, the Panel on Planetary Thinking remains committed to fostering bold, boundary-crossing research that expands our understanding of Earth’s intertwined systems. 🌬️🪨💧 #jlugiessen #interdisciplinary #seedfunding #planetarythinking #desertpavements
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5 months ago
🌍 MEET EVA MEIJER 🌍 We’re excited to share our interview with Eva Meijer, Summer Planetary Fellow, philosopher and writer whose work spans language, silence, madness, nonhuman animals, and politics 🌿. During the interview, Eva shared insights into their project: Multispecies Assemblies A powerful concept inviting us to recognize seas, mountains, animals, and plants not as backdrops to human activity, but as political actors in their own right 🌊⛰️🐕. Eva explores these assemblies as forms of direct democracy, where some beings speak for themselves and others are represented. Eva also spoke about their guests — political philosopher Angie Pepper and writer and curator Jason White — who will join them at the concluding conference of the panel From Relations to Politics, taking place 18–20 November at Rauischholzhausen Castle. 👉 Want to learn more? Check our Linktree in bio 🌍 #planetarythinking #multispeciesassemblies #animalphilosophy #morethanhuman #ecophilosophy #democracy #planetaryfellowship #artandscience #loungeoffuture
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6 months ago
🌍 MEET STEFAN PEDERSEN 🌍 We’re happy to share an interview with our Planetary Fellow, Stefan Pedersen: a political theorist working at the intersection of international political theory and global environmental politics. Stefan speaks about his project on: Biospheric Politics and Planetary Democracy - where he explores the political transformations needed to address the Earth System crisis, calling for a new mode of planetary politics — biospheric politics — to legitimize these transformations. Stefan has invited Martin Haajer, author of the forthcoming book Captured Future: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics (2025), to join him at our concluding conference “From Relations to Politics: Pathways toward a Planetary Praxis,” taking place 18–20 November at @schlosshotelrauischholzhausen 👉 Would you like to learn more? Check our Linktree in bio 🌍 #planetarythinking #biosphericpolitics #planetarydemocracy #earthsystemgovernance #ecopolitics #politicaltheory #morethanhuman #artandscience #loungeoffuture #jlugiessen
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6 months ago
🌍 MEET MILJA KURKI 🌍 We’re happy to share an interview with our Planetary Fellow @kurkimilja — interdisciplinary researcher, teacher, and Chair of the Department of International Politics at @aberystwyth.university , Wales (UK). Her work explores planetary multispecies politics, the histories of knowledge (including their cross-disciplinary formation), and the ways cosmological imaginations reshape how we do politics. During the interview, Milja speaks about her current book project: Exploring the Wheres and Hows of Planetary Multispecies Politics In a deep dive into possible political sites and practices involved in a planetary democracy, she explores the futures of thinking planetary politics from a cowshed rather than from global institutions such as the UN. Milja also shares some ideas about what she and her longtime collaborator, @mirandawhall — artist and professor at Aberystwyth University, Wales (UK) — will present at our concluding conference From Relations to Politics: Pathways toward a Planetary Praxis, taking place 18–20 November at @schlosshotelrauischholzhausen 👉 Would you like to learn more? Check our Linktree in bio 🌍 #planetarythinking #multispeciespolitics #planetarydemocracy #cosmopolitics #morethanhuman #politicaltheory #artandscience #loungeoffuture #jlugiessen
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6 months ago
We warmly invite you to the concluding conference of our Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Fellowship Program, realized by us and our fellows. 🌍 From Relations to Politics: Pathways Toward a Planetary Praxis 📅 November 18–20, 2025 📍 @schlosshotelrauischholzhausen Schloss Rauischholzhausen | Schlosspark 1 | 35085 Ebsdorfergrund How can we conceive a politics with the Earth? This three-day conference brings together scholars, artists, and practitioners to develop a research agenda around planetary politics. We explore how new forms of knowledge, collaboration, and political action can emerge, and how to do justice to the complex interrelations between humans and the Earth. The program features keynotes, panel discussions, artistic contributions, and interactive formats where new perspectives and research approaches are developed collaboratively. Our aim is to consolidate insights from the four-year fellowship and lay the groundwork for future collaborative research. Program highlights include: a keynote lecture by Prof. Adam Frank @adamfrankscience (University of Rochester, NY) “The Planetary as a New Cosmology” an impulse talk by Prof. Patrizia Nanz (European University Institute, Florence) “Universities as Anchors of Societal Change in the Planetary Age” and a whole range of different contributions from our fellows and their guests. Please register by November 1, 2025. More details via linktree in bio / on our website. — #PlanetaryThinking #PlanetaryPolitics #PlanetaryPraxis #Conference #ArtAndScience #ClimateCulture #AcademicEvents #PanelOnPlanetaryThinking #Sustainability #PlanetaryScholars #jlugiessen
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6 months ago
We warmly invite you to participate in the Planetary Agency & Politics Workshop “Soil Translations: How to Read Soil in the So-Called Anthropocene” organized by Planetary Fellow Sophie von Redecker. The workshop explores soils as vital and communicative agents shaping planetary life. Through a panel discussion and hands-on engagement in the form of a guided tour of the experimental farm, focusing on its soil management, we will investigate how to read the expressions of soils and what such an understanding might mean for planetary politics. 🗓 24.10.2025 | 10:45 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 📍 Gladbacher Hof | 65606 Villmar Transdisciplinary panel discussion & guided tour at the research farm with contributions by: lissa mirea weidenfeld • Brad Harmon • Lisa Krall • SoLawi Terra Lumbricus • Wiebke Niether • Franz Schulz Students, researchers, agricultural practitioners, and all others interested in learning more about the role of soil in shaping our shared future are warmly invited. 🪴 Register by 16.10.2025 🌿 A plant-based lunch will be provided 🚆 Registered participants may join a collective train ride or travel independently Further details on the speakers & Registration are available via our Bio
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7 months ago
🌍✨ We are pleased to introduce this year's winter fellows of Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence to the Panel! This semester, @echolology (Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings), Eva Meijer, @kurkimilja (Milja Kurki), and Stefan Pedersen will explore the themes of Planetary Agency/Politics with the aim of conceptualizing building blocks for a prototype of planetary democracy. ☕ After our traditional welcome breakfast, the fellows discussed their projects: ❄️🗻 Rawlings - Glacial Vocabulary: creative tools for communicating with glaciers through geosemiotics & performance scores. 🐾🌱 Meijer - Multispecies Assemblies: reimagining politics as a dialogue between humans, animals, plants, and landscapes. 🌏🐾 Kurki - Planetary Multispecies Politics: exploring where and how multispecies democracy can take shape. 🌿⚖️ Pedersen - Biospheric Politics: balancing global biospheric needs with democratic freedoms and local autonomy. 🌱👩‍🌾 In addition, our summer fellow Sophie von Redecker will realize her project 'Soil Translations' with a participatory workshop at JLU's Gladbacherhof Research Farm on 24 Oct. 2025. 📅 The projects will culminate in a final conference at Castle Rauischholzhausen, November 18–20. Stay tuned for more updates! #jlu #gladbacherhof #snæfellsjökulsfyrirforseta #planetarythinking #morethanhuman #biosphericpolitics #multispecies #planetary #glacier
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8 months ago
We’re excited to introduce you to our Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence for the winter term 2025! 🌍 Meet Stefan Pedersen—political theorist working at the intersection of international political theory and global environmental politics. He completed his PhD at the University of Leeds and is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex. He’s also a recipient of the Streit Council–Frank Fund Fellowship 🏅. In his project “Biospheric Politics and Planetary Democracy,” Stefan explores the political transformations needed to address the Earth System crisis and calls for a new mode of planetary politics—biospheric politics—to legitimize these transformations 🌐🌱. This form of politics responds directly to the physical realities of a rapidly changing Earth System, while also embracing regional, local, and communal autonomy. In other words: a planetary governance centered on the biosphere and respecting the rights of diverse communities to self-determine their futures. During his residency, Stefan will work toward assembling a cohesive set of concepts for imagining a biospheric community—capable of self-governance as a whole, while honoring the autonomy of its many parts 🌍🤝. #planetarythinking #biosphericpolitics #planetarydemocracy #earthsystemgovernance #ecopolitics #politicaltheory #morethanhuman #artandscience #loungeoffuture
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8 months ago