3. September 2025 | Welcoming our winter fellows of the Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Program
We warmly welcome our fellows Angela Rawlings, Eva Meijer, Milja Kurki, and Stefan Pedersen to the Planetary Hub for the winter semester! This year's theme is on PLANETARY AGENCY/POLITICS with the overarching goal to create a 'planetary democracy' prototype.
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- 3. September 2025 | Welcoming our winter fellows of the Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Program
- 2025-09-03T00:00:00+02:00
- 2025-09-03T23:59:59+02:00
- We warmly welcome our fellows Angela Rawlings, Eva Meijer, Milja Kurki, and Stefan Pedersen to the Planetary Hub for the winter semester! This year's theme is on PLANETARY AGENCY/POLITICS with the overarching goal to create a 'planetary democracy' prototype.
Sep 03, 2025 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
Panel on Planetary Thinking
After our welcome breakfast, the winter semester fellows introduced their projects. Rawlings presented Glacial Vocabulary, expanding on earlier work that imagined how a glacier could participate in Icelandic government. Rawlings will develop creative tools for communicating with glaciers, producing performance scores that explore how ecosystems might take part in democratic life. Meijer shared Multispecies Assemblies, a project that reimagines politics as a dialogue with animals, plants, and landscapes. Meijer will experiment with models of democracy where humans and non-humans act together, asking how these practices can be scaled from local to international contexts.
The discussion continued with Kurki and Pedersen, who focus on rethinking planetary politics. Kurki’s project explores where and how multispecies forms of democracy can be practiced, considering both human and non-human voices across different sites of engagement. Pedersen’s project examines how the needs of the biosphere can be reconciled with democratic freedoms, proposing pathways toward a planetary democracy that balances global responsibility with local autonomy. Together, the four fellows bring artistic, philosophical, and political approaches into conversation, contributing building blocks for reimagining democratic futures.
In addition, our summer fellow Sophie von Redecker will realize her project Soil Translations with a participatory workshop at Gladbacherhof on 24 October 2025, engaging with agricultural practices and more-than-human knowledge to model forms of planetary democracy.
The fellows’ projects will culminate in a final conference at Castle Rauischholzhausen from November 18–20, with further details and opportunities for engagement to be announced in the coming weeks.
We look forward to an exciting semester with our fellows!