On Friday the 21st of April 2023, a symposium on the Blue Economy and the interdisciplinary approach to marine and coastal sustainability and education in different Mediterranean communities will be held at BAU , College of Art & Design – Granada Building (C/ de la Ciutat de Granada, 34-36, 08005 Barcelona).
What can we learn from the association of art and science with regard to a sustainable transformation of the economy on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea? What diagnoses and strategies can we draw up from this hybrid space that will allow us to establish a more balanced and less anthropocentric relationship with the sea that fills our coasts? In this symposium the project A Sea Change brings together different voices from the fields of art, science, economics and philosophy, and invites them to weave a choral but coherent discourse concerning the foreseeable future of the Mediterranean. How do we relate to the sea as a source of food, as a place for leisure and tourism, as a means of transport for people and goods, and what is the current state of Mediterranean ecosystems? And, having made these evaluations, what concrete actions can we propose for the near future?
With contributions from experts in the fields of economics, art, design, film, marine literature, philosophy and environmental sciences, as well as interventions by international artists, the event will raise issues and urgencies around urban design, the well-being of Barcelona’s coastal communities and ecosystems and their environments.
Participants:
Patricia Carbonell (AMWAJ – Head of Revolve media Barcelona) · Denis Delestrac (filmmaker) · Ignasi Ferrer (CEO & Founder of Seastainable ventures ) · (Daniel G. Andújar (artist) · María Antonia Gonzalez Valerio (Doctor in Philosophy & full time professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM ) Joaquín Jara (artist) · Camila Maggi U (Architect & professor, BAU) · Anna Majó (Operational Director of Innovation Barcelona Activa / Blue Economy- Ajuntament de Barcelona ) · Anne-M. Melster (Executive Director & Founder of ARTPORT_making waves ) · Filippo Minelli (artist) · (Kasia Molga (artist) · Cris Noguer (Designer & independent researcher) · Ana Otero (Designer & PhD student, BAU) · Josep Lluís Pelegrí (Senior Researcher & professor, Institut de Ciències del Mar) · Maja Smrekar (artist) · Marta Puxan (Doctor in Humanities, distinguished researcher at the Universitat de les Illes Balears) · (Robertina Šebjanič (artist) · Carole Viaene (Director of the Seareg Foundation)
Symposium Programme
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10:10 – 10:20
Opening from Tatiana Kourotchkina Founder & director of Quo Artis.
10:30 – 10:50
Anna Majó - Barcelona Blue Economy : towards a sustainable future. (ENG)
10:50 – 11:10
In conversation, Ignasi Ferrer & Carole Viaene, Seareg Foundation - Sustainable Blue Economy ventures. (ENG)
11.10 – 11.30
Robertina Šebjanič - Sounds of a troubled world’s = Underwater Interception of aquatocene (ENG)
12:15- 12:35
Anne - M. Melster - WE ARE OCEAN Global program: How can interdisciplinary art projects activate societal change? (ENG)
12:40 – 13:00
Denis Delestrac - On the documentary, Freightened. The real price of shipping (2016). (ENG)
13:05 – 13:25
Patricia Carbonell - Building creative narratives to spark water action. (ENG)
13:30 – 13:50
María Antonia González Valerio - About nature, the oceans and what we have to meditate upon. (ENG)
16:05 – 16:25
Josep Lluís Pelegrí - Enbluement: searching enactive interfaces for participating in the living planet. (ENG)
16:30 – 16:45
Camila Maggi - BAU's Institute of Political Materialities (IMP). Cris Noguer - Explanation of 5 student projects linked to the project with ICM Bluegenes, practical methodologies for approaching a dialogue between design and the sea. (ENG)
16:50 – 17:05
Maja Smrekar - Sea Station. (ENG)
17:10 – 17:30
Marta Puxan - The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: graphic memoirs for the economy of illegal fishing. (ENG)
17:35 – 17:55
kasia molga – how to fall for the sea. (ENG)
17:55 – 18:15
Mare Nostrum?- A conversation between Daniel G. Andújar & Filippo Minelli. (ENG)
18:15 – 18:30
Presentation of the workshop on Art and Ecology at Llobregat’s Delta by Joaquín Jara. (ENG)
FULL PROGRAM & SPEAKERS ABSTRACTS This event was streamed live online
