QUESTIONS FOR GREEN AND JUST TRANSITIONS

CONVERSATIONS

We have talked with researchers, political scientists, philosophers, biologists, representatives from local municipalities, experts on research and innovation policies, and activists to discuss with them possibilities and challenges, strategies and approaches.

How can we, as artists and artistic researchers, contribute to larger collective efforts to push for a just and green transition?

How can we best navigate the complex political landscapes and share our experiences, perspectives and resources?

What can a project like this do to prepare more established research communities for the inclusion of artistic research?

Research is part of lobbying, but where can we lobby

How to avoid paternalism?

Justice just for people?

What about future people?

How can art help those?

Can different art forms work together?

What can art help in representing those who can't represent themselves?

How can different mediums do this?

Whom is the work made for?

Green transition - a way of buying time?

What can artists be?

Why does art position itself above all others?

Questions for a green and just transition

How do we allow the new things to enter the world?

How can the abstract community help us to not embelish existing power relations?

How do we avoid repeating old patterns?

Does it increase pleasure?

Future Library Project

How do artists not cover up existing power-relations? (Economic dependencies)

Make the revolution irresistable? How?

When does it become propaganda?

How do you stay optimistic in this complexity + uncertainty?

Who sets the agenda on urgencies?

Solidarity is more interesting than care, tries to avoid hiearchical relations

Solidarity is similar. You can work together without sharing an agenda.

Care reiterates an economy of guilt

The work of the artist is to make the revolution irresistable?

Why should the transition be so serious?

What is a life worth living?

How can we bring in a more dynamic/temporal and relational understanding into development projects?

How can we get the embodied situated, into our acts of Transition?

How can we bring in a more dynamic/temporal and relational understanding into development projects?

How to represent what cannot be represented itself?

Instead of impact attribution, we should try attribution of non-change?

How do we avoid that art covers up the power relations?