Un-disciplinary

Following Donna Haraway’s motto: ‘Alone, in our separate kinds of expertise and experience, we know both too much and too little, and so we succumb to despair or to hope, and neither is a sensible attitude’ (Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chtuluscene), Un-disciplinary builds on the idea that our current disciplinary system is in part responsible for the crisis caused by the Anthropocene as it fails to engage with the planet as a complex whole. To surpass this, Un-disciplinary is a symposium and art exhibition that provide a highly diverse and stimulating space where the academic and artistic communities can discuss these topics with the general public.

The invited keynotes will give talks on their diverse practices ranging from medical humanities, science, technology, and visual culture (Silvia Casini), genetics and digital architecture (Alberto T. Estévez), image science and critical theory (Viola Rühse), interactive arts, music and AI (Kivanç Tatar), structural engineering, architecture and energy efficiency (Ioana Moldovan); and architecture, design and contemporary culture (Răzvan Nica). The guests will share their perspectives and discuss how art, technology and science can work together to produce unique modes of engagement and bring together future generations of transdisciplinary efforts towards sustainable futures.