Intertwined Biosphere Workshop, May

In this first full workshop on the Intertwined Biosphere topic, we came together to identify research opportunities with the potential to conceptualise, and empirically investigate, humans as truly intertwined with all life in the biosphere. Hailing from multiple continents, the group included those working within the humanities, the arts, and the natural and social sciences.

On the first day, the workshop was hosted by Stockholm University’s exhibition space, Accelerator. Through presentations, lunches, and a walk-and-talk, we became familiar with each other’s motivations, interests, and research – including the many different perspectives from which ‘the intertwined’ can be studied. These perspectives were clustered in working groups allowing research proposals to be developed during the second and third days. The proposals were inspired by both group and plenary discussion, and a presentation by the artist subject Goldin+Senneby. Since the workshop, workshop participants have had multiple meetings to shape concrete research projects and academic publications.