The fate of the Earth into daily politics

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How to communicate the today environmental problems to raise public awareness and engagement? We need new strategies and instruments to improve the public perception of today environmental issues. Solutions should come from arts as well from science, in a new definition of aesthetics. The philosopher and anthropologist Bruno Latour, professor at Sciences Po Paris, will review some of the instruments, especially those around the mapping of controversies, in the lecture “What does it mean to bring the fate of the Earth into daily politics?”

” The present backlash in ecological politics comes from an almost total disconnect between the size and extension in space and time of the issues and the institution of politics in charge of representing them to the eyes of those in charge of making decisions. There is thus a great interest in devising instruments able to represent and make accessible to the senses the issues at hand. The great novelty of such an extension of our sensibility is that they should come from arts as well as from science thus extending the definition of aesthetics”.

The lecture will take place at the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG), in Venice (Island of San Giorgio Maggiore) on 14th September 2012 at 16:00.

The speaker will be introduced by Carlo Carraro, President, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice – Director, International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) – Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Director Climate Impacts and Policy Division, Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC).

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