Carpa 9 conference: Day 2

The theme for the ninth international conference on artistic research is ecological design and performance pedagogies: sustainable practices and interdisciplinary acts in a climate changed world.

Programme of day 2: Thursday 28 August

Check-in and Information Desk open
8:00–19:00
Teak Tori 

Opening of the conference by the conference committee
9:00–9:45  
Theatre Hall  

STRAND 1: Ecological Design Practices

10:00–10:30
Session 1: AUD 1

Ian Garrett 
Teaching Eco-Scenography: Pedagogical Frameworks for Ecological Design for Performance at York University

Paper, 30 min.

STRAND 2: Ecological Performance Making

10:00–10:45
Session 2: STUDIO 1

Maedy de Miranda-Tol  
The Choreographic Force of Matter: Reframing Ecodramaturgy 

Lecture-performance, 45 min.

STRAND 3: Ecological Storytelling

10:00-10:45
Session 3: Theatre Hall

Laura Cull O’Maoilearca, Dorothy Blokland, Joy Brandsma, Patricia de Vries, Sabine Niederer and Carlo De Gaetano 
Climate Imaginaries at Sea: Interdisciplinary Artistic Research as Ecological Storytelling 

Workshare, 45 min.

STRAND 1: Ecological Design Practices

10:30 –11.00
Session 1: AUD 1

Elina Lifländer
Involvement of the spectator in scenographic content

Paper, 30 min.

STRAND 2: Ecological Performance Making

10:45–11:15
Session 2: STUDIO 1

Anne-Lise Brevers 
Hyperwithin: a shy dramaturgy in shadowtimes 

Paper, 30 min.

STRAND 3: Ecological Storytelling

10:45–11:30
Session 3: Theatre Hall

Riikka Tauriainen 
Plankton Ecosystems and Situated Learning in Fluid Networks 

Multimodal, 45 min.

STRAND 1: Ecological Design Practices

11:00–11:30
Session 1: AUD 1

Kathryn Downton 
Putting the Theatre Green Book into Practice; Sustainability, Pedagogy and the Conservatoire 

Paper, 30 min.

STRAND 1: Ecological Design Practices

12:00-12:45
Session 4: STUDIO 4

Lauren O`Neal  
The Eco-Curatorial: Reimagining Cultural Institutions                          

Workshare, 45 min.

STRAND 2: Ecological Performance Making

12:00–12:45
Session 5: STUDIO 1

Tuomas Laitinen
Compostable thinking 

Lecture-performance, 45 min.

STRAND 3: Ecological Storytelling

12:00-12:30
Session 6: Theatre Hall

John Taukave and John Kautoke
Hanua ‘e ‘os gasava: Delivering a Just and Equitable Transition within acti(vā)ted spaces and values, at the IMO. An Oceanic Perspective 

Paper, 30 min.

STRAND 3: Ecological Storytelling

12:30-13:00
Session 6:  Theatre Hall

Damien Ricketson and Diana Chester
Intertidal Conversations

Paper, 30 min.

LUNCH at Teak
13:00–14.30

STRAND 1: Ecological Design Practices

14:30-15:00
Session 7: AUD 1

Daniel Kofi Brako
Perspectives of Selected Designers on Ecoscenography and a Sustainable Ghanaian Theatre Stage 

Paper, 30 min.

STRAND 2: Ecological Performance Making

14:30–15:00
Session 8: STUDIO 1

Aldith Gauci
Aesthetic Responses to the Ecological Crisis in the Indigenous Jola Masquerades of Senegambia  

Paper, 30 min.

STRAND 3: Ecological Storytelling

14:30- 15:30
Session 9: Theatre Hall

Aino-Kaisa Koistinen and Susi Mikael Nousiainen
Writing-with-water: A feminist environmental artist pedagogy 

Workshop, 60 min.

STRAND 1: Ecological Design Practices

15:00–15:30
Session 7: AUD 1

Oshima Hiroko
Paper, Plants, and Performance: Reapproaching Scenography by Listening to Ancestral Knowledge   

Paper, 30 min.

STRAND 2: Ecological Performance Making

15:00-15.45
Session 8: STUDIO 1

Tormod Carlsen
Recycling traditions of garden theatre in search of relevance for a sustainable theatre.  

Lecture-performance, 45 min.

STRAND 1: Ecological Design Practices

16:15-17:00
Session 10: STUDIO 4

Anna Chrtková
How Slow Can We Go? Staging the Sustainable Spaces in an Age of Burnout

Workshare, 45 min.

STRAND 2: Ecological Performance Making

16:15-17:15
Session 11: STUDIO 1

Riina Hannula and Kaajal Modi
Thermofilia: witnessing the microbial through hot yoga fermentation 

Workshop, 60 min.

STRAND 3: Ecological Storytelling

16:15-17:45
Session 12: Outdoors, Merihaka strand, across the street from the intersection of Haapaniemenkatu and Sörnäisten rantatie, a 3-5 minute walk.

Marianne Lavoie
Serendipity and Storytelling: A Regenerative Framework for the Cultural Sector 

Outdoors, 90 min.

STRAND 1: Ecological Design Practices

18:00-18:45
Session 13:  STUDIO 4

Oona Leino-Virtanen
Touching as a way for multi-species knowledge

Multimodal presentation, 45 min.

STRAND 2: Ecological Performance Making

18:00-18:45
Session 14: STUDIO 1

Kilpeläinen Raisa and Milla Martikainen
On More Sustainable Performance Design, Education and the Future Skills in a World of Polycrisis. 

Multimodal presentation, 45 min.

STRAND 3: Ecological Storytelling

18:00–19:00
Session 15: Theatre Hall

Germain Ducroise
Dancing an embodied landscape: an ecosomatic movement workshop 

Workshop, 60 min.

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