Climate Change
Climate change is one of the central themes of the CCCB’s 2016-2017 programme. In the course of the year we’ll be offering activities, talks and a major exhibition with the aim of addressing what we see as one of the biggest challenges facing humankind.
Joanna Zylinska: “We need a new way of seeing the Anthropocene”
Laura Benítez Valero
An approximation to climate crisis from an ethical and responsible stand at several scales where humans may be the cause but also answerable to solutions.
Donna Haraway
A conversation with Marta Segarra
The biologist and philosopher of science Donna Haraway talks with the Professor Marta Segarra on the occasion of the essay Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (DUP, 2016), in which Haraway proposes new ways of reconfiguring the relations of humans with the earth and all its inhabitants.
Sea State 9: Proclamation
Interview with Charles Lim Yi Yong
Singapore is a key port in the world’s infrastructure and a central node in the international financial system. The country’s most limited resource is land, which it is attempting to increase by terraforming, reclaiming land from the sea. Thirty per cent of its surface is now artificial ...
McKenzie Wark
The Drunken Driver: Thoughts on a Waning Civilisation
McKenzie Wark, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, discuss the role of climate change in the present Anthropocene Era. Wark points out that perhaps this is not as rational a world as its owners would like us to think. What if the corporate-robotic-information complex that is seeking power o...
Vandana Shiva
Seeding Freedom: Humanity at an Evolutionary Crossroads
Vandana Shiva, activist and ecofeminist thinker talks about the role humanity must accept in a future conditioned by the ecological, economic, political and social effects of the present climate crisis. Vandana Shiva argues that today’s climate crisis faces humanity with a serious situation ...
Minister of the Future
Timothy Morton
Timothy Morton represents the heirs of the planet, human and non-human, whose existence will be determined by what we do and how we think from now on.
Angry Optimism in a Drowned World: A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson
José Luis de Vicente
Reflections from a science-fiction angle on the scenarios posed by climate change and the defence of the imagination to help find real solutions.
Timothy Morton: Ecology without Nature
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
We interview the philosopher Tim Morton, author of “Dark Ecology”, who proposes that we rethink the way we see ecology, anthropocentrism and art.
Benjamin Grant talks about the 'Overview' effect
Seven hundred kilometres above our heads, satellites capture in detail the Earth’s new skin, cracked and tattooed across its entire extent. From up there, we can see the catalogue of all the objects of the world. Benjamin Grant is the founder of Overview, a publishing and online project ...
Win-Win: an immersive installation on climate change
The German documentary theatre company Rimini Protokoll presents a dramatic experience about the animal species that will be the winners and losers in the climate crisis. A surprising experience for the visitors of the exhibition "After The End of the World". Until May 1 2018 at CCCB.