Avoiding Nature: Biopolitics and Environmental Ecologies

This conference which is organized by the MA Fine Art department in collaboration with MA Design at Iceland Academy of the Arts will bring together cross-disciplinary thinkers and makers reflecting on concerns relating to human action in nature and the power of ecological thinking. Under increasingly critical environmental circumstances, the need for radical thinking across multiple disciplines is greater than ever, to form a new interdisciplinary discourse where we may find opportunity to reframe and readdress the pressing biopolitical and ecological questions and problems we are facing. Through a variety of lectures, case-studies and discussions we tackle the question of how art, design and science combine to effect change.