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Johanna Paschen

PhD Studentin

Kritische Nachhaltigkeitsforschung

Telefon: +41 31 684 33 23
E-Mail: johanna.paschen@unibe.ch
Büro: 104
Postadresse: Universität Bern
Geographisches Institut
Hallerstrasse 12
CH-3012 Bern

CV

Research Interests

Critical Climate Justice
EcoJustice
Transdisciplinarity
Ecological Art
Collaborative Practices
Environmental Humanities
Political Ecology

Education

MSc Human Ecology – Culture, Power and Sustainability, Lund University, Sweden
Thesis: Can Art in Sustainability Education Challenge Marginalisation? Conversations with Youths and Practitioners in an European Context
BSc Liberal Arts and Sciences – Specialisation in Social Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Work experience

2021-2022: Research and Project Assistant, NOAH – Friends of the Earth Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021-2022: Team Leader, Madboks – Food Saving, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019-2020: Project Assistant, Wilderness Foundation UK, Chelmsford, UK
2019: Research Assistant, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
2018: Project Assistant, Minerva Art Academy, Groningen, The Netherlands

Publikationen

2023

Paschen, J. (2023). Building on the project ‘EcoArtLab’: the potential of combining ecological art, transdisciplinary research, and climate and eco- justice for climate action. Geoagenda - Climate Crisis and Geographers for Future (2023/4), pp.16-19. Swiss Geographical Association (ASG)

2022

Master Thesis:

Paschen, J. (2022). Can Art in Sustainability Education Challenge Marginalisation? Conversations with Youths and Practitioners in a European Context. 1–56. https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9097261

Projekte

“EcoArtLab. Relational encounters between the arts and climate research.”
Duration	2023-2027
Funding	An SNSF - Swiss National Science Foundation funded collaboration between the Institute for Practices and Theories of the Arts at the Bern Academy of the Arts HKB and our mLAB.
Description	Fridays for Future, climate crisis, net zero – the debate about climate change and ecological sustainability has moved to the center of society. The question is what options for action exist and what conditions must be in place for a societal transformation toward greater sustainability to be possible. Climate researchers seek exchange with artists or adapt artistic processes in the course of a creative (re-)turn (Hawkins 2020, Marsten & deLeeuw 2013, Crang 2010), while artistic practice is turning to ecological themes. However, it is debated to what extent the arts can actually generate sustainable ecological effects by fueling a thematic debate without questioning structures and logics of production in the sense of a critical practice. More and more initiatives and funding bodies are also trying to bring artists together with climate researchers. Working title Transdisciplinary Research in Art and Climate Science Collaborations: Methodologies, procedures and practices for a just knowledge co-creation between artists, scientists, society, and the more-than-human collaboration in the context of Switzerland.

Vorträge

2024
	‘EcoArtMap: Mapping collaborations and practices of artists, climate scientists, and societal actors that co-produce knowledge on climate change’. Presentation in the panel ‘Mapping Climate Change Perceptions’ at the Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual International Conference 2024, London, UK.
	‘Transdisziplinäre Kollaboration als Methodik‘. Presentation in panel ‚Räumliche Neuordnungen in der Klimakrise: Beiträge der Humangeographie‘ at Neue Kulturgeographie 2024, Münster, Germany.
	‘Co-creating knowledge in transdisciplinary art and climate science collaborations: Exploring epistemic justice in applied methods and procedures’. Presentation in panel Inter- and transdisciplinary research methodologies at Geographie-Werkstatt 2024, Innsbruck, Austria.
2023
November	‘Transdisciplinary research in art and climate science collaborations: Investigating methodologies, procedures, practices, and underlying assumptions to reach epistemic justice in terms of knowledge co-creation between artists, climate scientists, society, and the more-than-human in the context of Switzerland’. Presentation in panel Climate Justice and Feminist Political Ecology, organized by Rosa Felicitas Philipp and me, at 21^st Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Mendrisio, Switzerland.
April	‚Film Screening ‘Ecotone Encounters’ /(EcoArtLab)’. Presentation in symposium ‘Finding home: At the nexus of ecological grief, artistic research, and environmental justice‘ at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Lucerne, Switzerland.
2018
	‘Collaboration of Liberal Arts & Science Students and people with disabilities about in- and exclusion’. Presentation at ‘The Meaning of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Conference at Erasmus University College, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
	‘Break Out’: Exploring in- and exclusion from the urban spaces from the inside out. Presentation at ‚Irish Geographers’ Conference, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland.

Lehrtätigkeiten

Current Teaching

FS 2024	Lecture ‘Forschungstoolbox zum Jahresthema: EcoArtLab Relational Encounters II: Migration — Klima — Gerechtigkeit’
FS 2024	Übung ‘Geographien der Nachhaltigkeit’

Past Teaching

HS 2023	Lecture ‘Forschungstoolbox zum Jahresthema: EcoArtLab — Relational Encounters I: Zukunftsbilder’
FS 2023	Übung ‘Geographien der Nachhaltigkeit’