Earthbound 2023 – Sensuous Knowledge and the Planet's Future at Mols Bjerge (Denmark)

Earthbound Symposium challenges known symposia formats, by exploring alternative ways to meet and share aims that foster commitment and inspire change. The former Earthbound editions were three-day journeys through science, art and interdisciplinary meetings, conceived as one ongoing immersive experience - an approach they continue to explore. Your hosts have a background in performing arts and are experienced in creating atmospheres and spaces that facilitate genuine, fruitful meetings and possible change.

Earthwise believes a large-scale paradigm shift is necessary now, and they propose to live in ‘Multispecies realities’ where animals, plants, microorganisms and landscapes have as equal value as humans, and where Climate Justice is an active issue. Developing new notions and a new language is, therefore, necessary, and this is a non-linear process, an exciting unknown territory.

They aim to reinvent 'the commons' and believe it makes all the difference to do that in an interdisciplinary and collective manner, while celebrating entanglement and interdependencies, and meeting across disciplines and old boundaries.

Earthbound was first held in 2018: “The Multispecies Paradigm Shift”, and again in 2021: “Weaving with the More-than-Human”. The 2023 edition will consist of a five-day workshop for 20 participants, followed by a day-long open symposium for 100 participants.

The workshop leader Liisa-Rávná Finbog will be one of the speakers. Minna Salami (author of “Sensuous Knowledge – A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone”) will also speak (to be confirmed).

The symposium program will also consist of other workshops and speakers, as well as contributions from the participants of the Earthbound workshop. Find videos from Earthbound '18 and '21 on their video channel.

Deadline: September 4, 2023. More information is in the press release on this webpage.