Munich 2051 Climate Conference
In September 2021, I attended the 2051 Munich Climate Conference, an arts-science collaboration organised by Bureau Grandezza and hosted at Bellevue di Monaco in Munich. Beyond your usual academic conference, it was a unique thought experiment prompting researchers to imagine their research as it might be perceived in 2051 - and the world we might live in by then - accompanied by immersive multimodal experiences. Will it be a utopian or dystopian future? How might it have been otherwise? In my contribution, I argue sociological imagination will have been the crucial piece of the puzzle missing in achieving our 2050 climate goals!
You can find my conversation with journalist and moderator Nabila Abdel Aziz and others from 01:19:40 in the recording:
The full paper "Another world was possible: how sociological imagination could have helped solve the climate crisis" was published in the accompanying book, edited by Benno Heisel, Theresa Spielmann, Andreas Wehrl, and Christina Wehrl with Transcript:
