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11-13/05/23
Tallinn Botanic Garden
Biotoopia_www_ikoonid

Programme

We are only beginning to understand that humanity’s wellbeing is absolutely dependent on the wellbeing of other life forms and biocenoses. The self-organising communication networks of the biosphere ensure the stability of satisfactory living conditions, on the levels of nutrient cycles, soil, atmospheric and climatic phenomena. Ecosystems are kept verdant by the syngenetic and intertwined relationships between microbes, algae, mushrooms, plants, insects and all other life forms.

 

Most of these relationships we cannot see nor measure. Nevertheless, these underground networks are influencing us directly. All terrestrial wellbeing is dependent on the life processes that occur within the soil. Everything that dies is fermented and turned into the juice of new life, mushroom mycelia grow together with plant roots, forming highly complex nutrient and information exchange channels, and difficult-to-measure organic signalling systems keep the processes in balance.

 

This year’s Biotoopia tries to peek into the depths of the underground networks, in order to better understand and protect them, and to recognise that humans, too, are connected to the living environment and each other through many entwined underground networks.

Thursday 11.05

09:30
Reception & registration (UTC + 03)
10:00
Kelli Turmann
Opening words by conference organizer, founder and CEO of Estonian Anthropocene Center
10:10
KAIDI AHER , Tallinn – European Green Capital 2023 & URVE SINIJÄRV, Tallinn Botanic Garden
10:20
Peeter Laurits
Greetings from the curator & moderator
10:30
Paco Calvo
Planta sapiens: removing the blindfold through Education
11:15
Maarja Öpik
Riches under our feet  
12:00
Merlin Sheldrake (online)
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures
13:00
Lunch / garden walk
13:30
Jane Remm
Workshop – About soil and the rest
14:30
Bayo Akomolafe
The paraterranean: a becoming-black  
15:15
Vaim Sarv
“Estonian” Regilaul and the Preservation of the Ontological Totality
16:00
Panel discussion: Paco Calvo & Maarja Öpik
17:30
Free time / outdoor garden walk

Conference tickets

11.-12.05. Online Conference Review Pass

11.-12.05.2023. online platform
Presentations
Discussions
Review

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11.-12.05. at Tallinn Botanic Garden (sold out) 

11.-12.05.2023. at Tallinn Botanic Garden
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Workshop
Nature trip
Network & materials
Online pass, review

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13.05. Art Program on Loopealse Wasteland (sold out)

A guided journey through a wasteland
on the Loopealse (location has changed)

* Young Boy Dancing Group
* Vaim Sarv
* Janika Oras, Leanne Barbo, Marion Selgall, and Minni Oras
* performative guides: Anette Pärn, Hildegard Reimann, Inge Ivaste

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11.-13.05.2023 at Tallinn Botanic Garden / online / Loopealse Wasteland
Presentations, discussions
Art & music performances
Network & materials
Online pass, review

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