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OTTO WAGNER LECTURE SERIES The annual Otto Wagner Lecture gives the floor to speakers addressing a wide range of topical issues that are relevant to contemporary debates in architecture and can serve to expand them. VANDANA SHIVA SOIL NOT OIL Industrialism and industrial agriculture have been fuelled by coal and oil. All the coal, petroleum and natural gas we are extracting and burning to run our contemporary, oil-based industrial economy was formed over 600 million years. We are burning up millions of years of nature’s work annually. This is why the carbon cycle is broken.
INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE OTTO WAGNER LECTURE
change, biodiversity erosion, soil desertification and a water crisis. Extinction is a certainty if we continue any longer on the fossil fuel path. A shift to a biodiversitybased civilization predicated on our return to the earth – in our minds, our hearts, our lives – is now a survival imperative. We need to shift from oil to soil; we need to shift from extractivism based on dead, fossilised carbon to regenerating living carbon in our bio diversity and our living soil. We need to make a transition from the fossilised idea that nature is inert and dead, to the awareness that the Earth is alive, we are part of the Earth, and co-creating and coproducing with her rich biodiversity, we can regenerate the Earth and provide nourishing food for all. #ZeroHunger is an achievable goal if we shift from fossil fuel intensive, chemical intensive, industrial agriculture to biodiversity-based, ecological agriculture.
A few centuries of fossil fuel-based civilization are threatening our very survival by rupturing the Earth’s carbon cycle, disrupting her key climate systems and self-regulatory capacity, and pushing diverse species to extinction at 1000 times the normal rate. We are in the beginning of the sixth mass extinction. Industrial agriculture based on fossil fuels and toxic chemicals is the single biggest contributor to The Age of Soil is the age of the Ecocene, of Earth different aspects of the planetary crisis – climate care, of regeneration and hope for the future.
11 NOVEMBER 2019 7 PM Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien EG Nord (Eingang Prospekthof) Lehargasse 6, 1060 Wien Chair: Anette Baldauf, Ujjwal Utkarsh Lecture in English
THE TRANSFER FROM THE AGE OF FOSSIL FUEL FOR THE AWARENESS OF A LIVING EARTH OTTO WAGNER LECTURE Earth Others A film screening for and with Vandana Shiva exploring routes and roots of ecological entanglements curated by Kelly Ann Gardener and Christina Jauernik.
10 NOVEMBER 2019 3.30 PM – 5.30 PM Filmmuseum Augustinerstraße 1, 1010 Vienna Free Entry
11 NOVEMBER 2019 7 PM Atelierhaus der Akademie