Open Call | Beyond Listening 2025: Walking-with Changes
Building on the 2023 Beyond Listening: Agency, Art, and the Environment symposium in Budapest and the rich range of subjects discussed there, we invite you to submit a proposal in response to this open call for a follow-up event in Cukrarna, Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2025.
By walking-with and listening to the “cultural turn” toward posthumanism we contribute to a shift in understanding humanity’s place within the world, challenging human exceptionalism and dominance. By walking-with and listening we engage in embodied practices that stimulate awareness of limited planetary resources and humanity’s destructive impact, from climate change to biodiversity loss. Such practices urge us to rethink the relationships with non-human life, technology, and ecosystems, advocating for an ethical shift and interdependent approach, to inspire coexistence for more sustainable futures.
Themes of the open call:
- Walking-with changes: rethinking walking as a method of inquiry, approaching listening-with your feet, soundwalking;
- Listening-with and beyond disciplines: employing the convergence of art, science, and technology in sonic ecosystems;
- Staying-with solastalgia: experiencing distress induced by environmental change in our home environment;
- Resonating-with lessons learnt from listening to the Anthropocene, addressing inequality, discrimination, and social justice;
- Being-with other-than-human sonic environments (ecoacoustics and bioacoustics) and engagement with environmental activism;
- Rethinking-with local and regional, historical and contemporary epistemologies and ethics of environmental awareness.
The deadline for applications is 10 February 2025
Selected applicants will be notified by 15 March 2025
Application: https://forms.gle/oVAydkqPyqa1ZoXv9
More info is available in the opencall PDF
Contact: symposium@cense.earth
The CENSE Symposium Beyond Listening 2025: Walking-with Changes (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2025) is produced by CONA Institute, co-organised by the Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, and facilitated by the Central-European Network for Sonic Ecologies.
Symposium’s programme board:
Scientific committee: Elena Biserna, Jacek Smolicki, Maja Bjelica
Organising committee: Irena Pivka, Ida Hiršenfelder, Maja Bjelica
Symposium’s advisory board: Csaba Hajnóczy, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Brane Zorman, Petra Kapš
Arhiv Cona
Building on the 2023 Beyond Listening: Agency, Art, and the Environment symposium in Budapest and the rich range of subjects discussed there, we invite you to submit a proposal in response to this open call for a follow-up event in Cukrarna, Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2025.
By walking-with and listening to the “cultural turn” toward posthumanism we contribute to a shift in understanding humanity’s place within the world, challenging human exceptionalism and dominance. By walking-with and listening we engage in embodied practices that stimulate awareness of limited planetary resources and humanity’s destructive impact, from climate change to biodiversity loss. Such practices urge us to rethink the relationships with non-human life, technology, and ecosystems, advocating for an ethical shift and interdependent approach, to inspire coexistence for more sustainable futures.
Themes of the open call:
- Walking-with changes: rethinking walking as a method of inquiry, approaching listening-with your feet, soundwalking;
- Listening-with and beyond disciplines: employing the convergence of art, science, and technology in sonic ecosystems;
- Staying-with solastalgia: experiencing distress induced by environmental change in our home environment;
- Resonating-with lessons learnt from listening to the Anthropocene, addressing inequality, discrimination, and social justice;
- Being-with other-than-human sonic environments (ecoacoustics and bioacoustics) and engagement with environmental activism;
- Rethinking-with local and regional, historical and contemporary epistemologies and ethics of environmental awareness.
The deadline for applications is 10 February 2025
Selected applicants will be notified by 15 March 2025
Application: https://forms.gle/oVAydkqPyqa1ZoXv9
More info is available in the opencall PDF
Contact: symposium@cense.earth
The CENSE Symposium Beyond Listening 2025: Walking-with Changes (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2025) is produced by CONA Institute, co-organised by the Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, and facilitated by the Central-European Network for Sonic Ecologies.
Symposium’s programme board:
Scientific committee: Elena Biserna, Jacek Smolicki, Maja Bjelica
Organising committee: Irena Pivka, Ida Hiršenfelder, Maja Bjelica
Symposium’s advisory board: Csaba Hajnóczy, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Brane Zorman, Petra Kapš
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