Terrestrial University: global (s)warming – recollections of insects and clouds | Sybille Neumeyer, Michael John Gorman and Jessica Ware

Critical Zones | Terrestrial University


[22.07.2020]


How can insects help us to perceive and respond faster to the
climate crisis and environmental threats? Sybille Neumeyer,
Michael John Gorman and Jessica Ware in conversation. How is
climate change experienced by a dragonfly? How can – in a
data-driven world – old forms of insect-human relationships be
recollected, to recover a diversity of knowledge, as fertile
ground for new allies and terrestrial communities? And, what
implications does the ecological crisis and species extinction
have for the work of Natural History and Science Museums? Taking
Sybille Neumeyer’s work »souvenirs entomologiques #1: odonata /
weathering data« as a starting point, this conversation will
investigate how insects can invite us to reconsider a diversity
of relationships between humans and non-humans. While multiple
insect identities are medially shaped and reshaped by co-evolving
modes of mapping, monitoring and collecting, their embodied
environmental knowledge, their sensorium and senses are an
inspiration for alternate ways of perceiving and being in
dialogue with the world.