Projects
The Planetary Futures Competition will be announced once a year in the years 2022-2025 to support the acquisition of third-party funding for transdisciplinary projects at Justus Liebig University.
Click here to download a PDF-Version of the call.
PLANETARY FUTURES
Competition for support for the acquisition of third-party funds
For the second time, the Panel on Planetary Thinking announces the Planetary Futures Competition (2022-2025). The aim is to provide financial support for transdisciplinary research projects that are in the initial stages of applying for external funding. Project ideas dedicated to researching planetary phenomena using innovative approaches and methods will be awarded funding of up to 5,000 euros . The main aim is to pave the way for explorative research projects that require a research practice beyond disciplinary boundaries and thus entail special risks, challenges and opportunities.
In line with the Hessian University Pact 2021-2025, Justus Liebig University has made it its goal to promote a planetary science culture and to create transdisciplinary points of contact. In this context, the Panel on Planetary Thinking forms a central node for a growing, international network for planetary research. Planetary thinking aims to understand what it means to be part of a planet. It involves moving away from a purely anthropocentric perspective to holistic views of an ever-changing planet. Human societies are thereby understood as actors in complex (inter-)planetary and intertemporal cause-effect structures, whose ability to shape planetary processes can influence them far beyond their own existence. Possible topics for participation in the competition are accordingly broad - suggestions as well as exemplary pilot studies or art projects, such as those of our current Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence , can be found on our website.
JLU members of all disciplines are can submit applications, provided they are eligible to apply for the respective line of funding. Funding in kind can be obtained for the implementation of a preparatory workshop or other formats that serve the application process. The annual funding must be spent by the end of the following year at the latest.
The application should include the following:
- Abstract of the research project (~ 500 words)
- Explanation of how the required funds will be used (e.g. outline workshop)
- Presentation of the funding line intended for the application (e.g. DFG)
- Short CVs of all applicants
Please send your application in either German or English as a single PDF file and by June 30, 2023 to panel .
This section presents current research projects of the panel team and the fellows as well as past projects and publications.
Publications
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06.03.2023 |
Leggewie C: Bleibt der Erde treu!, Rezension zu „Geosoziologie. Die Erde als Raum des Lebens“ von Markus Schroer in Soziopolis – Gesellschaft beobachten. https://www.soziopolis.de/bleibt-der-erde-treu.html |
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02.02.2023 |
Leggewie, C: Die wissenschaftliche Gemeinschaft hat ihre Tücken, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/ein-sammelband-ueber-akademiker-im-exil-18649471.html |
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08.11.2022 |
Leggewie, C.: Eigener Koordinator für Raumfahrt, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/region-und-hessen/hessische-landesregierung-will-im-weltall-mitmischen-18443963.html |
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2022 |
Hanusch, F., Bauer, L., Hartl, C., Finkelstein, C., Leggewie, C.: Der Wald als Mitakteur? Das Fallbeispiel einer planetaren Politik, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 63, 708 - 728. |
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Hanusch, F., Leggewie, C. Planetary Paradigm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Open Access Cambridge Element) |
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Hanusch, F., Biermann, F. Deep-Time Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Open Access Cambridge Elements) |
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Leggewie, C. Chittagong Schiffbruch. Visuelle Evidenzen zur Globalisierungskritik, spectorbooks: Leipzig. |
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Leggewie, C. Reparationen. Das Dreieck Algerien, Frankreich und Deutschland, Verlag Donata Kinzelbach: Mainz. |
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Morán, A., Hanusch, F.: The Potential of Pluralizing Participation? The Consultation Processes in Santa María Cahabón. |
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Hanusch, F., Leggewie, C. : Thought, in Wallenhorst, N., Wulf, C. (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Anthropocene. Basingstoke: Springer Nature. |
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Hanusch, F., Leggewie, C. : Agenda, in Wallenhorst, N., Wulf, C. (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Anthropocene. Basingstoke: Springer Nature. |
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Hanusch F., Meisch, S.: The Temporal Cleavage: Climate Emergency vs. Populist Retrotopia. |
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2021 |
Hanusch, F., Schad, M.: Hydrogen Research: Technology First, Society Second?, in: GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 2/2021. |
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2021 |
Hanusch, F.: Embeddedness as a Quality Assessment Tool for Teaching-Learning Processes. HINT. Heidelberg Inspirations for Innovative Teaching. |
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2021 |
Leggewie, C.: Quivive: Der Kuss des Bären und die Lehren der Ungewissheit, in: MerkurHeft 868, September 2021, 75. Jahrgang, S. 74-78. |
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2021 |
Hanusch, F.: Demokratie und Klimawandel, in: Demokratie gegen Menschenfeindlichkeit. 5:2, 18-21. |
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2021 |
Leggewie, C.: Neues vom Grand Hotel Abgrund. Der Paradigmenwechsel vom Kosmopolitismus zur Kosmo-Politik, in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 15, 119–136. (Open Access) |
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2021 |
Leggewie, C.; Ouaissa, R. Algerien: Das Ancien Régime vor der Implosion? Blätter 66:7, 33-36. |
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2021
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Hanusch, F., Leggewie, C., Meyer, E.: Planetar denken. Ein Einstieg. Bielefeld: transcript Rezensionen bei Bayern 2, socialnet, Spektrum Wissenschaft etc. |
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2021 |
Leggewie, C.: In Place of an Afterword. Report from an Ongoing Self-experiment. in: Schwedes/Keichel (Hgs.) The Electric Car. Mobility of Upheaval, Wiesbaden: Springer, 141-144. (Open Access) |
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2021 |
Asenbaum, H., Hanusch, F.: (De)Futuring Democracy. Labs, Playgrounds, and Ateliers as Democratic Innovations. Futures. Volume 134, December 2021, 102836. |
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2021 |
Leggewie, C.; Kübler, L.; Nanz, P. Demokratische Innovation durch Bürgerinitiative. In: Apuz 26/27. |
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2020 |
Leggewie, C. BRÜDER, ZUR SONNE ... Wie das Wettrennen ins All die planetare Achtsamkeit bestärkte, in: Lettre International 129, 60-63. |
This section presents the art projects of the current fellows.
Das Resort (2022). A Film by Mathias Kessler
The short film "Das Resort", directed by our Fellow Mathias Kessler was made under the impressions of the first Covid-19 lockdown. Adapted from a script by screenwriter Ron Kanecke and translated into German by Chiara Juriatti, the film tells of the nameless narrator's search for his father in a world where humans have been silenced by a virus. Against the backdrop of an unspecified mountain village, a narrative unfolds away from linear time, along memories of childhood, the father, and the world before and after catastrophe. Sweeping and striking landscape shots of lonely mountain huts, snow-covered ski slopes, and abandoned mountain villages reveal a ghostly, dystopian emptiness that emphasizes the absence of man. Kessler's award-winning film invites reflections on man's inescapable impact on nature and the state of a society in which technical progress becomes an end in itself. His theses are forceful: the idea of a return to a pristine nature through human withdrawal is naïve. Human activity has already left its traces in such an all-encompassing way that even the most abandoned places are marked by them. Finally, our social development towards more and more technological progress blocks the view of what would actually be necessary for human and non-human well-being. A trailer for the film is shown here .
"Das Resort" has been nominated for and won awards many times since its release. For example, the film was selected for the Seattle Film Festival (Sept. 30, 2022), The IndieFEST Film Awards (Nov. 01, 2022) and for the Amsterdam Lift-Off Film Festival (Oct. 01, 2023). Semi-finalist at the Berlin Shorts Awards (Oct. 21, 2022) and finalist for NewFilmmakers NY (Jan. 04, 2023), the film won awards at the Phoenix Shorts (Oct. 28, 2022) and the Independent Shorts Awards, LA (Nov. 12, 2022).
We are happy to report that one of the first screenings of this impressive film could take place at the Planetary Hub! The film will also be shown at other screenings such as on Dec. 10 from 8:00 p.m. as part of a Finissage by Twenty Magazine with films by Rosa Aiello, Rachel Ashton and Mathias Kessler at Cittipunkt Berlin.
More information about "Das Resort" and further works by Mathias Kessler can be found here .
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Planetary Forest: Bring the forest into the garden
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The participatory artwork Planetary Forest: Bring the Forest into the Garden refers to the scientific and cultural-technical construction of worlds. Placed on a free-standing green area next to the newly built greenhouses of the Botanical Garden Giessen, the regional forest soil is relocated and recreated as a living sculpture. The planetary material comes from an ecological disturbance area in the city forest of Rosbach vor der Höhe, Hesse, which was severely affected by forest dieback. The supposedly natural forest is carried into the man made world of the botanical garden. There, it serves as an ethical, aesthetic, ecological, and political disruption that sensitizes visitors to the forest dieback topic and the artificiality of nature. Like a crack in the perfectly constructed reality, a discourse opens up here about the problems caused by climate change and human impact in local forests and in the planetary context. |
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We cordially invite you all to visit the living work of art and send dated photos to panel@planet.uni-giessen.de . Experience the Rosbacher City Forest in the Botanical Garden Giessen!
A project by Dr. Claudia Hartl, Mathias Kessler, and Clemens Finkelstein; Fellows at the Panel on Planetary Thinking of the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
With the kind support of the Botanical Garden Giessen, Neuer Kunstverein Giessen e.V., and the city Rosbach vor der Höhe
For two weeks, the Neuer Kunstverein Gießen e.V. also hosted an accompanying exhibition at its premises, which documented the work of the three Fellows at the Panel on Planetary Thinking. On display were, among others, Line Drawings and "The Arctic Ocean - Failed Hope" by Mathias Kessler, Vibrascapes by Clemens Finkelstein and Dendro Art by Claudia Hartl.
May 2022 - Contributions by Clemens Finkelstein to SICK ARCHITECTURE
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“Concerns of human and planetary health have always been closely entangled, growing increasingly closer at a moment when public discussions shift focus to lament the Earth’s transformation from a
biosphere
(a sphere of life) to a
thanatosphere
(a sphere of death). Yet, instead of evolving towards equilibrium—as entangled objects do according to current physical theories of thermodynamics and quantum mechanics—their relationship has unraveled into sustained disequilibrium. Planetary infirmity is materialized through significant climatic shifts, excessive anthropogenic vibrations, the resultant corruption of its biospheric system, as well as the redistribution of its mass and axis through glacial melting.”
Planetary Scholar and current Fellow of the Planetary Scholars and Artists in Residence Program Clemens Finkelstein recently contributed the essay “Planetary Disequilibrium”, the inter-active exhibit “sick world building syndrome”, and the eponymous lecture to SICK ARCHITECTURE , a collaboration between Beatriz Colomina, e-flux Architecture, CIVA Brussels, and Princeton University. The exhibition at CIVA Brussels was open from May 6 to August 28, 2022. |
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