The 9th Futurological Congress, Zürich Chapter

The Futurological Congress invites you to think about the future together. Different voices, experiences and ideas should enter into an open dialogue and give rise to new ideas. The aim is to share many futures in order to influence the present. The congress is a structured collective brainstorming session aimed at making things happen. The public will be invited to actively participate and imagine a variety of interwoven, animal, polysemic, astronomical, indigenous, aquatic and post-planetary futures. They will also be challenged to think, try and fail at unattainable futures in order to venture together into the unknown and expand the horizons of what is possible.

Organized by Julieta Aranda, Mareike Dittmer and Martina Huber in collaboration with Löwenbräukunst, Migros Museum, Kunsthalle Zurich and WE ARE AIA Awareness in Art

Registration and full information

1st day, 29 November 2024, 15:30 – 22:00
15:30 - 16:00 Introduction to Futurological Congress by co-organizers Julieta Aranda, Mareike Dittmer, Martina Huber
16:00 - 17:00 'Architecture of Care' by Ethel Baraona Pohl, Senior Assistant at the Chair Architecture of Care, ETH Zurich
16:00 - 18:00 Coalition Bouquet Workshop by Ren Loren Britton
16:00 - 18:00 Caring Space
17:00 - 17:30 Performance: Communities of Care, by Athina Maria (Greece) & Adnan Hadzi (Malta)
17:30 - 18:00 Break
18:00 - 19:00 Beyond Time: Decolonizing History for a Future of Care Nikita Dhawan, Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies
19:00 - 20:00 Film Screening: How Do We Want to Live Together? with discussion, by Youth Group Taskforce 2123
20:00 - 21:00 Reimagining Care through Art + Science Monica Bello, Head of Arts at CERN, Giulia Bini, Curator and Head of Public Programs EPFL Lausanne
21:00 – 22:00 Apéro by Co-organizers for all participants

Location: All events on November 29 will take place at Kunsthalle Zurich, except the workshop with Ren Britton, which will take place at Caring Space, Migros Museum

*PLEASE NOTE: The workshop with Ren Britton requires a separate registration

2nd day, 30 November 2024, 14:30 – 21:00
14:00 - 14:30 Opening Remarks Day – Introduction by Martina Huber, WE ARE AIA I Awareness in Art, NPO
14:30 - 15:30 All that remains of the changing seasons by Lucia Pietroiusti, Head of Ecologies at Serpentine London
15:30 - 16:30 Coalition Bouquet workshop: Open discussion about the workshop’s results by Ren Loren Britton, Artist
16:30 – 17:00 Break
17:00 -18:00 Caring for Ghosts, Learning from Plants, Performative walk through Knowledge is a Garden by Uriel Orlow – Artist
18:00 - 18.30 Book launch What If? Letter to the Future by Johannes M. Hedinger & performative reading 'Voices from the global south' by Ishita Chakraborty
18:30 - 19:00 Inclusive closing discussion by all
19:00 - 21:00 Slippery Grounds: Food Experience by artist Maya Minder by Maya Minder, Artist

Location: All events on November 30 will take place at schwarzescafé, Luma Westbau.

Photo: Julietta Aranda