Exploring the Anthropocene through institutional cosmologies
Client: Embassy of Foreign Artists Date: October 2024
Within Geneva's Praille-Acacias-Vernets urban project, this research residency maps different "institutional cosmologies" facing the Anthropocene. Climate disruption forces us to rethink our relationship to an environment that has become unstable, transforming yesterday's stable backdrop into a complex and changing system. By exploring divergent climate adaptation visions carried by private enterprises, public institutions, and civil society, we reveal how each actor constructs their own relationship to this new reality. This speculative approach extrapolates these logics into distant futures, creating an anticipation device that highlights differences in action means and organizational belief systems. A central objective is to make each actor aware of others' visions, thus enabling the creation of unprecedented exchanges and collaborations. The challenge is to make future apprehension a collective discussion subject and put adaptation strategies on the public debate table.