Tuesday 3 November, 12:00

Fertile Encounters: Rethinking Our Relation to the Living

Christian Clot, explorer-researcher and founder of the Human Adaptation Institute, is a specialist in adaptive cognition and co-founder of the Climate House. He researches behavioral and transformational adaptation to new living conditions and led the Deep Time expedition.

This session examines how behaviors, decisions and social bonds change under crisis, drawing on Deep Time experiences and artistic contributions by Laurence Piaget-Dubuis. A subsequent panel explores creation by and for living beings, discussing ecological practice, collaborative art-science methods and implications for collective adaptation.

Chemin du Champ-des-Filles 36a,
1228 Plan-les-Ouates
Photo Credit: HiFlow
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