Climate outlook
international seminar
Between the 22nd and 24th of November, the Sesc-SP Research and Training Center will host the seminar "Climate Perspectives", where scientists, activists, indigenous and quilombola leaders, journalists and artists will gather to, together, think about the climate issue.
Registration is open via the link:https://
The center of today's cultural and political debate can be recognized in the theme of climate change. It is in this expression that the main political, social and cultural challenges facing us are concentrated. Melting glaciers, ocean acidification, rising temperatures and social inequality are some of the well-known effects of this global event. However, when we reflect on it from a local perspective, we end up coming into contact with issues arising from a diversity of small materialities specific to what Western science has been calling "climate change" globally. In this movement, other narratives and stories are told to us, opening different epistemological and political horizons for action on the climate emergency.
Taking advantage of such particularities, the "Climate Perspectives" seminar aims to showcase a set of different perspectives and narratives on climate and the environment, so that, through them, it is possible to build an image from the inside out of such a global event. . To this end, scientists from different areas, indigenous, quilombola and urban leaders, riverside communities, journalists and indigenous artists will be invited to participate in the program.
The specific problems that a riverside community deals with, the impact of the landscape on the biological structure of certain living beings, the effects felt by an urban community on its environment, the change in the composition and course of rivers, the effect of such changes on the Amazon soil and its impacts on indigenous communities are some examples of the local narratives that will be addressed during the meeting. Faced with them, the question to which we wish to outline a partial answer is: what appearance would this thing we call "climate change" have when examined from local points of view? To achieve this, a gathering of knowledge, sciences and ways of existence is necessary so that we can rethink the condition of the planet and ourselves from a multiple, diverse and heterogeneous perspective.
The seminar also intends to discuss conditions and possibilities for alliances and dialogues, raising, in this sense, other questions for the already well-known global debate. The aim is that this meeting can be a place for new approaches and debates about the climate, bringing together different people, territories and perspectives.
Curatorship: Bruno Siniscalchi and Maria Borba