[Reader-list] ÜBER LEBENSKUNST

[Ravi Agarwal]

Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan

invites you to

About The Art of Living and the Art of Survival
ÜBER LEBENSKUNST
A global conference

Friday, 19 August - Saturday, 20 August
Siddhartha Hall and Library, Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba
Gandhi Marg,
New Delhi

On August 19 and 20, New Delhi will be the international partner in a global
conference that connects the cities of Berlin, St. Petersburg, New Delhi,
São
Paulo and Nairobi via internet. The conference is at the heart of the ÜBER
LEBENSKUNST Festival during which international artists, scientists and
activists will turn Berlin into a showcase for the sustainable "art of
living".
Experts and artists will discuss possibilities for sustainable living in the
21st century. Performances and presentations of model projects will be on
display and local problems and solutions for sustainable development will be
discussed from a global perspective. The complete Festival programme can be
found at www.ueber-lebenskunst.org <http://www.ueber-lebenskunst.org>

The Delhi programme is curated by Ravi Agarwal (artist, environmentalist)


FRIDAY, 19 August


Live streaming events before 5:30 pm - details soon

5:30 – 6.30 p.m PERFORMANCE (Venue: Siddhartha Hall)
Mega-Delhi Sublime
“Mega-Delhi Sublime” is an experimental research project about contemporary
New Delhi and the poetry unearthed as it bulldozes itself into new
self-discovery.
Chris Green, artist (USA), via video live stream from New Delhi

6:30 – 9.00 p.m DISCUSSION (Venue: Library)
On Megacities
What are the most pressing ecological and social problems faced by the
ever-growing megacities in the “Global South” today? How could those cities
develop more sustainably, what are existing projects and what could
sustainable
urban planning strategies look like?

Introduction: Significance of the problem of urbanization and megacities
Paola Alfaro d'Alençon, Habitat Unit, Technische Universität Berlin (D), via
live stream from Berlin

Film clips from Slum TV – Sam Hopkins

Discussion
Sam Hopkins, artist (Kenia), via live stream from Nairobi
Arthur Adeya Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology,
initiator
of the “Kibera Public Space Project”, via live stream from Nairobi
K.T. Ravindran, head of Urban Design, School of Planning and Architecture,
New
Delhi, live in New Delhi
Rahul Srivastava, research advisor at PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge
Action and Research) and co-founder of URBZ, live in New Delhi
Marussia Whately, coordinator, Programa Mananciais, Instituto
SocioAmbiental,
Sao Paulo, via live stream  from Sao Paulo

Facilitation: Rahul Srivastava
9.00 p.m RECEPTION (Venue: Siddhartha Hall)



SATURDAY, 20 August


Live streaming events before 8:30 pm - details soon

8:30 – 10:00 p.m. DISCUSSION (Venue: Library)
Salto Mortale
Experts from various countries in the "Global South" will discuss
sustainable
strategies for prosperity.  What kind of resistance is there to these types
of
approaches and what negative consequences can they bring with them?
Sunita Narain, director of the Centre for Science and Environment (India),
live
in New Delhi
Chandran Nair, founder and CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow; author
of
"Consumptionomics. Asia's Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the
Planet"
(Hong Kong), live stream from Berlin
Sergej Bobylev, economics department, Moscow State University (Russia), via
live stream from St. Petersburg

Facilitation: Angelina Davydova, live stream from St. Petersburg

10 p.m. – 11 p.m. PERFORMANCE (Venue: Siddhartha Hall)
Earth.Territory.Music
Earth's music transcends, and orbits each one of us. Territories rotate on
its
axis. The earth knows. It no longer revolves around the sun, merely to
repeat
seasons, but History.
Inder Salim, artist (India), live stream in New Delhi

For the opening and the other dates please register by Wednesday, 17th
August
with Mr. Dennis Yücel from the programme department: Tel. 011-23471-132,
Email: programm at delhi.goethe.org <mailto:programm at delhi.goethe.org>

This event is part of the project ÜBER LEBENSKUNST in cooperation with the
Goethe-Institut. ÜBER LEBENSKUNST is an initiative project of the German
Federal Cultural Foundation in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
The
conference is funded by German Federal Cultural Foundation.