Language: English (mozilla)
Future Focus: Money and Environment is a discussion and digital debates programme at FutureEverything bringing together scholars, artists, economists and other professionals in a creative exchange, conversations and networking around topics related to economics, technology and environmental change and exploring how finance impacts on the environment and how finance could be reimagined to contribute to the environmental and social agenda.
From examining the complex and sometimes unknown ways in which money and environment might be related throughout history, to opening up discussions around issues surrounding tax havens and offshore economies, algorithms, labour, opaque markets and climate change, we are investigating ideas and questions including whether money and finance can be green or regulated for environmental change, what strategies we can create for ecological good and what knowledge systems we might need and from/with whom.
Co-curated and facilitated by Ismail Ertürk and Irini Papadimitriou.
The goal of the session is to bring together people from diverse backgrounds i.e. art, tech, science, economy and different geographical locations to share inspirational ideas, activism and community projects that not only explore how economy impacts the environment, but open up new ways of thinking and offer alternative strategies and approaches. We would also like to create a space to explore peer support and feedback in these areas of work, and hopefully enable new connections, creative cross-pollination and critical discourse. We will invite participating presenters to share projects and research through visuals and we will dedicate part of the session to critical conversation. We are hoping to also have a new artistic commission to share during the session.
Why did you choose that space? How does your session align with the space description?:We feel that our themes are a good theme to the Sustainability and climate space, but we are also hoping that the context of our session will compliment the rest of the programme and also bring a new group of participants to MozFest.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session? What if 30 participants attend? What if there are 3?:This is not an issue as we can adapt and the conversation from the participants we will invite to lead the discussion will be engaging hopefully encouraging our wider participants group to take part, whether they are 3 or 30 or any other number.
What happens after MozFest? We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after MozFest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:Future Focus: Money and Environment is an ongoing project and we would love to continue the work with MozFest. We did two pilot sessions, one in 2020 and one in 2021 and due to the great interest we are hoping to have more sessions in the future and also include some online (or even also physical) art commissions responding to themes around money and environment.
What language would you like to host your session in?:English