Saturday 21 September 2024: 9.40 – 5.30pm
Rolando Vázquez is a teacher and decolonial thinker. Rolando is Professor of Post/Decolonial Theories and Literatures, with a focus on the Global South” at the department of Literary and Cultural Analysis & the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). He is regularly invited to deliver keynotes on decoloniality at academic and cultural institutions. Since 2010, he co-directs with Walter Mignolo the annual Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School, now hosted by the Van Abbemuseum. Vázquez’s work places the question of the possibility of an ethical life at the core of decolonial thought and advocates for the decolonial transformation of cultural and educational institutions. Most recent publication includes “Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary” (Mondriaan Fund 2020). More details here
Françoise Vergès is an antiracist feminist activist, a public educator, an independent curator, and the cofounder of the collective Decolonize the Arts 52015-2020). She is the author of seminal publications: A Decolonial Feminism (Pluto, 2021); The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (Duke University Press, 2020) and forthcoming A Program of Absolute Disorder. Decolonizing the Museum (Pluto, 2024). Françoise Vergès is currently Senior Fellow Researcher, Sarah Parker Remont Center for the Study of Race and Racialization, UCL, London. See more details here. Françoise Vergès is a key research contributor to L’Internationale and the fourth cooperative project Museum of the Commons, of which IMMA is associate member see more details here
Nadine El-Enany is a writer, poet and teacher. She is Professor of Law at the University of Kent. Her book (B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire (Manchester University Press, 2020) was awarded the 2021 SLSA Theory and History Book Prize. El-Enany is co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (Pluto Press, 2021), and co-editor of After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response (Pluto Press, 2019). She is winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She has written for the Guardian, LRB Blog, Verso Blog, New Humanist, MAP Magazine, Open Democracy and Critical Legal Thinking. More details here
Ursula Biemann is a Swiss artist and theorist, her practice centres on fieldwork, often in Indigenous territories, and the creation of networks between different fields of knowledge. Her artistic practice reflects on the political ecologies of forests, oil and water, creating through her videos, books and installations critical perspectives on the dynamics of extraction and also proposing alternative, ecocentric modes of ecological and epistemological relatedness. Recent Solo exhibitions present at MAMAC in Nice and at MUAC, the Museum for Contemporary Art in Mexico City. She published the online monograph “Becoming Earth” on ten years of her ecological video works and writing and the book “Forest Mind – On the Interconnection of All Life” with Spector Books. More details here
BothAnd Group is a research-based design studio investigating the logic of living systems, and the social, ecological and political forces that shape urban and rural territories. They uncover, design for, and translate these concerns through their work in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and exhibition. BothAnd Group’s work has been exhibited at both La Biennale Architettura 2023 and the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022. Their ongoing investigations include an examination of global food landscapes and indigenous land management practices. BothAnd Group is Jarek Adamczuk, Alice Clarke, Andrew Ó Murchú and Kate Rushe. More details here
Moderator: Mick Wilson, is artist, educator and researcher based in Gothenburg and Dublin. He is currently Professor of Art, Director of Doctoral Studies at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, and co-chair of the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary. More details here
Moderator: Dr. Sharae Deckard is Associate Professor in World Literature in the School of English at UCD. Sharae has published five books, most recent is Tracking Capital: World-Systems, World-Ecology, World-Culture, co-authored with Michael Niblett and Stephen Shapiro (SUNY Press 2024). More details here
Moderator & Respondent: Sinéad Mercier is campaigner and Lecturer in environmental law and PhD candidate in environmental, cultural heritage and climate law at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin. Aiming to make climate and environmental issues as relevant and accessible as possible to the public in keeping with a meitheal, internationalist and social justice approach. She is a militant optimist has been involved in various campaigns. See more details here
Moderator: Donal Lally is a Dublin-based architect, lecturer, and researcher. His research critically explores the socio-technical imaginaries of data infrastructure, focusing on data materiality, techno-utopianism, and techno-colonialism. Donal has presented his work at institutions, festivals and universities around the world, such as at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Transmediale, University of Illinois, Akademie Der Kuenste (Berlin), Science Gallery Dublin, Universität der Künste (Berlin), the Galway International Arts Festival, amongst many others. More details here
TU DUBLIN MA Art and Environment Convenor & Moderator: Glenn Loughran (TU Dublin MA Art and Environment) and chaired with Ann Davoren (Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre). Together they have delivered the long-standing BA in Visual Art on Sherkin Island and the archipelagic MA Art and Environment, sited on multiple islands. In 2020, he set up the archipelagic MA Art and Environment in collaboration with Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre. The MA Art and Environment (MAAE) uniquely combines post-studio art practice, interdisciplinary research, virtual teaching, island studies and community engagement. More details here
Panellist: Gill Perry, Professor of Art History at the Open University, UK. Her books include Islands and Contemporary Art Hardcover – 1 Sept. 2024. More details here
Panellist: Pippa Marland Lecturer in English and Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol, and author of Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago (Rowman and Littlefield 2023) and the forthcoming The Pen and the Plough: The Farm in British Nature Writing. More details here
Panellist: Émer Deane, Asst Sec British and Northern Ireland Affairs Division, The British and Northern Ireland Affairs Division comprises two units, which work together to support the Taoiseach and the Government in fostering reconciliation and developing relationships on the island of Ireland and between Britain and Ireland. More details here
Panellist: Ruairí Ó Donnabháin, is a language activist and a choreographer, graduate from the MA Art and Environment (TU Dublin). His choreographic practice is concerned with ‘aesthetic practices of care’. He is currently living and working on Oileán Chléire, where he has recently set up an arts festival and residency. More details here
IMMA / NCAD FIELD / tranzit / L’Internationale Associate partners of L’Internationale Museum of the Commons Climate. More details here Moderators: Gareth Kennedy and Seoidín O’Sullivan of NCAD FIELD was established in 2020 to facilitate face-to-face learning during the pandemic and introduce critical ecological thought and action into art and design students’ learning experience, and to create a hospitable setting for art and design research to meet other forms of expertise in novel ecosystems. More details here tranzit / The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life (Romania) The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life is a project, a site and the expression of a utopia. It is a bet and a promise, an experiment and an investment into a future we can still shape. The Station is the result of the shared desires and beliefs of a small community built over years, around values such as love of art, respect for nature, friendship, belief in emancipatory practices, sharing of resources, mutual trust. More details here
Sunday 22 September 2024: 10:30 – 5pm
THE FOREST THAT WON’T FORGET
Panellist: Dr. Fiona Whelan is a Dublin based artist, writer and educator, who is committed to exploring and responding to systemic power relations and inequalities through long-term cross-sectoral collaborations with diverse individuals, groups and organisations. Fiona Whelan is Programme Leader of the MA/MFA Art and Social Action at NCAD. More details here
Panellist: John Conway is a visual artist working extensively in complex healthcare and community health contexts. Previous projects include long term collaborations with breast cancer survivors, mothers of children in end-of-life care, paediatric healthcare staff, and family members of forensic mental healthcare patients. More details here
Panellist: Ray Ó Foghlú is a woodland conservationist. His background is in Environmental Science, where he specialised in Forests and Water Quality. He has worked for the last decade in the Irish eNGO sector. He is currently the Landowner Engagement Coordinator at Hometree Charity. www.hometree.ie
Panellist: Ceara Martyn 221+ (Patient Support Group for those directly affected by the CervicalCheck debacle). More details here
Moderator: Sarah Searson director of the National Sculpture Factory Cork, and previous Director of The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon where she commissioned several artists projects related to contemporary forestry practices in Northwest of Ireland.
SAKIYA RESIDENCY – Palestine Sahar Qawasmi Cofounder and Director Sakiya, an international residency programme and research platform in Ramallah, Palestine. Sahar Qawasmi is an architect, restorer, cultural organizer, and forager, committed to the conservation of land, restoration of architectural heritage, and preservation of Palestine’s cultural histories as testaments of creative collective resilience. More details here
DCU CENTRE FOR CLIMATE AND SOCIETY Moderator & Convenor: Diarmuid Torney, Associate professor in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University and is director of the DCU Centre for Climate and Society and programme chair of DCU’s MSc in Climate Change: Policy, Media and Society. He is author of European Climate Leadership in Question: Policies toward China and India (MIT Press, 2015) and co-editor of Ireland and the Climate Crisis (Palgrave, 2020) and European Union External Environmental Policy: Rules, Regulation and Governance Beyond Borders (Palgrave, 2018). More details here
Panellist: Ben Mallon is Assistant Professor in Geography and Citizenship Education in the School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies in the Institute of Education, Dublin City University.
Panellist: Dr. Ellen Howley is an Assistant Professor in the School of English. She received her PhD in 2020, for a thesis that examined engagements with the sea in Irish and Caribbean poetry. In 2019, she co-organised the IRC-funded, interdisciplinary workshop Planet Ocean.
Panellist: Dr. Louise Fitzgerald Assistant Professor at the DCU School of Law and Government. Louise’s research broadly focuses on issues of justice in environmental topics and is leading a SEAI-funded project on the role of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in energy transformations.
Panellist: Laura Costello, Strategy Director Purpose & Planet at THINKHOUSE has been named by Forbes Magazine as one of 43 People Changing Advertising for the Climate. More details here
Moderator: Evie Kenny, Host of RTE’s Ecolution podcast, with participants in Ireland’s Children and Young People’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss. More details here
DEMOLITON TAKE DOWN Convenors: Islander architects is a Dublin based design and research practice led by two registered members of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI), Laura Carroll & Ciarán Molumby. Demolition Take Down is a recipient of the Creative Climate Action Fund and is a research and engagement initiative by Islander Architects. As a practice they aim to be agents of change, they believe in the broader social impact architecture and the built environment can have on our communities & places. Laura & Ciarán currently teach at the School of Architecture, Building and Environment, TU Dublin. More details here
Panellist: Susannah Hagan is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster, London. She has published extensively, drawing together architectural design, history and theory to examine environmental practice in publications such as Digitalia (2008), and Ecological Urbanism (2015) and acclaimed book, Revolution? Architecture and the Anthropocene, 2022. More details here Panellist: Ellen McKinney is sustainability manager at IPUT.
Panellist: Joseph Kilroy is (IE) of the CIOB.
Panellist: Dr Carole Pollard architect & architectural historian.
Moderator: Emer Byrne is from the School of Surveying and Construction Innovation, TU Dublin.