Critical Sustainabilties:
Lecture Series
This lecture series highlights alternative, critical, and interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability and ecology. It aims to interrogate dominant narratives, explore global perspectives, and create space for imagining futures rooted in ecological justice and collective flourishing.
Speakers include not only academics but also artists, poets, and collectives, emphasizing diverse forms of knowledge production. The series will serve as a critical, heuristic space that questions taken-for-granted assumptions and nurtures the capacity to envision and practice justice-focused alternatives.
All Computers Are Broken - Rethinking the Technosphere along the Lines of Repair and Maintenance Work
by
Juli Laczkó
This presentation presents broken world thinking, the connecting tissue of the different themes Laczkó has been artistically working with lately.
The world is always breaking; it's in its nature to break. Broken world thinking asserts that breakdown, dissolution, and change, rather than innovation, development, or design as conventionally practiced and thought about are the key themes and problems facing new media and technology scholarship today. “All Computers Are Broken” is an invitation to think about crisis and technological objects from this unusual perspective.
Critical Raw Materials and the Twin Transition
by
Dr Jeff Diamanti
This talk considers the criteria developed to nominate critical raw materials "critical" by the European Commission and asks what cartographies will supply those materials and under what conditions.
Agriculture, Imperialism and thinking Food as a Weapon
by
Sophia Doyle
This lecture will give an insight into what looking through the lens of food and agriculture can offer to our understanding of racial capitalism and its wreaking havoc on ecologies and lifeworlds. It will sketch out agro-industry's entanglement with state, corporate and “civil” infrastructures, and make it readable as “Agro-Industrial Complex.”
Plunder in the World System: a Degrowth Perspective on Trade
by
Dr Crelis Rammelt
This talk exposes the hidden architecture of the global economy — a system designed to siphon labor and resources from the South to the North. It shows how wealth doesn’t just flow that way by accident, but is extracted through unequal exchange, the engine of capitalist globalization. From a degrowth perspective, we’ll explore how to break free and imagine alternatives.
The Green Future of Universities: Integrating Sustainability in Every Decision
by
Dr. Yogi Hendlin
“The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed.”
Plant-based Diets for our Health and our Planet
by
Carlijn Wagenaar
Sustainability covers several aspects of our lives, starting from our tables! 🍛
In this lecture, we dove into the health benefits of plant-based diets on our general health! Using the project “Plants for Joints” as a case study, our guest speaker Carlijn Wagenaar showcased the importance of our diets and how they can contribute both to our health and to our planet’s health! 🍄
Perspectives from the Tropical Global South
by
Carmen Mallqui Caballero
The current context of multiple crises has led to a critical examination of how sustainable solutions are conceptualized and implemented. Who determines what constitutes sustainability and what does not? Whose voices are considered in the design of sustainable solutions? 🏗️
Climate Anxiety Talk
by
Dr. Disa Sauter
The climate crisis not only affects our planet, but it also impacts how we live on it. 🫂
Do you struggle with climate anxiety, want to learn more or are simply curious? Then watch this lecture where Dr. Disa Sauter talked about understanding and overcoming climate anxiety and how to cope with the psychological impacts of climate change! 🧠
Going Beyond Mobility
by
Dr. Luca Bertolini
In this lecture, Dr. Hendlin dives into the Nordic application of Bildung to education and society, the energy-neutral buildings already in Dutch universities, and the more harmonious ways of dividing tasks driving sustainability and wellbeing right now in this exciting talk of the green future of the university.