Research workshop linked to the Climate Engines exhibition, carried out in collaboration with the Chair of Climate Change University of Oviedo and the Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives.
This research workshop will bring together experts, university students, and citizens to investigate the idea of Asturias as a climate refuge. In the potential transition of Asturias from a natural paradise to a climate refuge, what opportunities and challenges arise?
The workshop will include expert participants from various fields such as geographers, biologists, architects, artists, curators, engineers, ethnomusicologists, and amateur meteorologists, representing both Spain and Europe. Student participants will come from the degrees of Tourism, Commerce and Marketing, Geography, and Biology at the University of Oviedo. The list includes Ricardo Anadón, Arturo Colina, Daphne Dragona, Jussi Parikka, Sonia Puente-Landázuri, Antonio Giráldez, Pablo Ibáñez, LLorián García-Flórez, Javimo, Amanda Masha Caminals, Stefan Laxness, Ícaro Obeso Muñiz, Irene Ezquerra, Daniel Herrera Arenas y Alfonso Suárez Rodríguez.
The research methodology, designed to be agile, will involve field visits and group discussions.
The workshop’s findings will be presented in an audiovisual piece titled “Asturias: From Natural Paradise to Climate Refuge – Five Key Considerations.” This piece will be included in the Climate Engines exhibition.
Eastern Asturias, an Anthropocene cartography
Link to map: www.anthropocenemap.eu – Best displayed on computer
Eastern Asturias, an Anthropocene cartography is the result of a workshop that brought together experts and interested parties to map direct and indirect impacts of humans in the study area of Eastern Asturias. The land sample was chosen by its diverse landscape due to the large difference in altitude over a short distance, covering a mix of small urban settlements and unbuilt land. During one workshop day, we discussed and identified different cases that met the research question: “What are the human-initiated actions and processes that directly and indirectly cause environmental harm in the study area?”
To achieve this, a mapping methodology based on Iconoclasistas (2016) was followed to map, and the structure of the Coupled Human Natural Systems as a basis for identifying the cases. Furthermore, a case selection was made for the final map.
However, the project offers only a fraction of anthropocene cases that emerged according to the methodology used.
This project was a continuation of the workshop Asturias, from Natural Paradise to Climate Refuge.
Organizer, mapmaker and website developer: Maarten Lauwers
Supervisor: Pablo de Soto (Director Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación cultural)
Texts by: Alfredo Ojanguren, Rolando Rodriguez Muñoz, Mario Quevedo de Anta, Paula Izquierdo Muruáis (Departamento de Biología, Organismos y Sistemas de la Universidad de Oviedo)
