Activity: Talk/lecture or presentation › Presentation
Description
The research seminar Critical Zones was held at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in 2018-2019 and led by Bruno Latour. November 2019 assembly was the 5th meeting of the research group partly involved in the development of the future exhibition "Critical Zones. Observatories for Earthly Politics", which is taking place in May-October 2020 at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM). The exhibition and the seminar uncover the implications of the current state of the critical zone – the surface layer of earth containing life. November 2019 seminar was focused mostly on the development of students' proposals. Among the main topics discussed at the research meeting were current problematics of ecological crisis, the unavoidable changes in the geopolitical, cultural, and historical as interconnected with the ecological.