Natureculture Lab

This international workshop aims to bring together in a hybrid format experts of conservation in two domains: on the one hand, art and cultural heritage conservation; and on the other hand, nature conservation.

27.01.2025, 12.30pm until 29.01.2025, 7pm – HKB, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern

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The current global challenges of the climate, environmental and, in parts of the globe, humanitarian crisis create a strong urgency to intensify the exchange between the fields of art and nature conservation. To cope with these challenges, nature and culture heritage conservation requires alternative ontologies and distinct epistemologies.

Contributors:

Ravi Agarwal, Lotte Arndt, Jacob Badcock, Marjolijn Bol, Sven Dupré, Josephine Ellis, Noémie Etienne, Rodney Harrison, Hanna B. Hölling, James Kuboja, Felicity Lunn, Emilie Magnin, Daniel Margoscy, Laura Martin, Julia Robles de La Pava, Christian Rosset, Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya, Friederike Schäfer, Anna Schäffler, Maartje Stols-Witlox, Aga Wielocha, Jerylee Wilkes Allemann and Glenn Wharton.

12.30am–12.45am

Arrival, with coffee and fruit.
HKB Aula, Fellerstrasse 11, Bern

12.45am–1.10pm

Welcome: Sebastian Dobrusskin, Hanna Hölling and Sven Dupré.
HKB Aula

Public Lectures and Q&A

1.10pm–2pm

Laura Martin: ‘Restore / Rewild: Collaborating with Non-Human Species,’ public lecture
and discussion. Moderated by Sven Dupré.
Hybrid: HKB Aula and online.

2pm–2.50pm

Maartje Stols-Witlox, Sven Dupré and Glenn Wharton, ‘Inspired by Nature: Reflections on Cultural Heritage Conservation Through Restoration Ecology,’ public lecture and discussion. Moderated by Hanna B. Hölling.
Hybrid: HKB Aula and online.

2.50pm–3.40pm

Ravi Agarwal: ‘Rethinking Nature— From Fishing Communities to More-than-Human
Relations,’ public lecture and discussion. Moderated by Jerylee Wilkes Allemann.
Hybrid: HKB Aula and online.

3.40pm–4.30pm

Break, with snacks

Non-Public Discussion Groups

4.30pm–5.30pm

Three working groups will be formed, comprising all in-person workshop participants, to
discuss three key questions:

  1. How do we deal with change?
  2. Who decides where and how conservation occurs?
  3. Who is considered an expert?

The discussions will be led by Glenn Wharton, Anna Schäffler, and Sven Dupré, with co-moderators Marjolijn Bol, Friederike Schäfer, and Aga Wielocha.
The working groups will convene at the HKB Studio, HKB Small Meeting Room, and Aula.

5.30pm–6pm

Convenience break

6pm–6.50pm

Group leaders feedback to forum, plenum discussion follows. Moderated by Hanna
Hölling and Sven Dupré.
HKB Aula

6.50pm–7pm

Conclusions Day 1 and overview and tasks for Day 2.
HKB Aula

12.45am–1pm

Arrival, with coffee and fruit.
HKB Aula

Public Lectures and Q&A

1pm–1.50pm

Lotte Arndt ‘Bees, Bugs and Beyond,’ public lecture and discussion. Moderated by Anna
Schäffler.
Hybrid: HKB Aula and online.


1.50pm–2.40pm

Daniel Margoscy ‘The Challenge of Conservation: Worms, Timber and Deforestation,’
public lecture and discussion. Moderated by Christian Rosset.
Hybrid: HKB Aula and online.

2.40pm–3.30pm

Break, with snacks

Public Presentations

3.30pm–5.20pm

Moderated by Felicity Lunn

  • Julia Robles de La Pava: ‘Beyond the Culture of Reason in Conservation: Art and Eco-Cosmology in the Patagonian Wetlands,’ [4pm–4.30pm]
    Hybrid: HKB Aula and online.
  • Anna Schäffler: ‘Preservation in the Atomic Age: Practices Anticipating Artistic and Environmental Futures,’ [4.30pm–4pm]
    Hybrid: HKB Aula and online.
  • James Kuboja: ‘Community Based-Conservation in Tanzania: Its Efficacy and the Position of Culture,’ [4.30pm–5pm]
    Hybrid: HKB Aula and online.
  • Rodney Harrison: ‘Beyond Natural and Cultural Heritage: Rethinking Heritage Conservation Practices in the Carbocene,’ [5pm–5.20pm]
    Hybrid: HKB Aula and online.

5.20pm–5.45pm

Convenience break

5.45pm–6.45pm

Discussion with all speakers of the second block, moderated by Aga Wielocha followed
by a Plenum, moderated by Jerylee Wilkes Allemann with all in-person participants.
HKB Aula

6.45pm–7pm

Conclusions Day 2 and preview Day 3. Hanna Hölling and Sven Dupré.
HKB Aula

12.45am–1pm

Arrival, with coffee and fruit.
HKB Aula

Public Lectures and Q&A

1pm–1.45pm

Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya: ‘Beyond Wildlife: Re(imagining) conservation of protected
areas in Zimbabwe,’ public lecture and discussion. Moderated by Christian Rosset.
HKB Aula and online.

1.45pm–2.30pm

Jacob Badcock: ’Conserving ’Sodom and Gomorrah:’ Nature, Urbanism, and
Technology,’ public lecture and discussion. Moderated by Noémie Etienne.
HKB Aula and online.

2.30pm–3.15pm

Josephine Ellis: ‘Situating the Conservation Object, or the New Object of Conservation,’ public lecture and discussion. Moderated by Emilie Magnin.
HKB Aula and online.

3.15pm–4pm

45-minute break, with snacks

Non-Public Discussion Groups

4pm–15.30pm

Three working groups will be formed with all in-person workshop participants to discuss three key questions, following a similar approach to Day 1 but with participants arranged in distinct groups. The discussions will be facilitated by Glenn Wharton, Anna Schäffler, and Sven Dupré in collaboration with Marjolijn Bol, Friederike Schäfer, and Aga Wielocha. The groups will convene in the HKB Studio, HKB Small Meeting Room, and Aula.

5.30pm–5.45pm

Mini convenience break

5.45pm–6.30pm

Plenum with all participants. Group leaders feedback to forum, plenum discussion
follows. Moderated by Hanna Hölling and Sven Dupré.
HKB Aula

6.30pm–7pm

Conclusions workshop and discussion of tasks for the writing retreat for selected
participants. Group leaders, with Hanna Hölling and Sven Dupré.
HKB Aula

Factsheet

  • Start date 27.01.2025, 12.30pm
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  • End date 29.01.2025, 7pm
  • Place HKB, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern