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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH">Liebe alle, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH">herzliche Einladung aus Bern zu diesem virtuellen Symposium.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please join us for <b><span style="color:#6860F6">THE INSPIRED DISCIPLINE</span></b>, an mLAB online symposium
<b><span style="color:#6860F6">on geography's search for new mediums and artistic methods</span></b>, on
<b>March 25-26</b> via Zoom.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We invite students, researchers, and everyone interested to explore and discuss new ways of doing geography and communicating research. We start with
<span style="color:#6860F6">IMPULSES</span> on creative geographies by <b>Harriet Hawkins</b> (professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London) and
<b>Hannah Hurtzig</b> (theatre-maker/Mobile Academy Berlin) on the staging of knowledge and non-knowledge. On the second day, short public presentations will be followed by workshops on radical
<span style="color:#6666FF">MAPS</span> by <b>Philippe Rekacewicz</b> (experimental cartographer, information designer and geographer, University of Helsinki),
<span style="color:#9999FF">COMICS</span> as research output with <b>Juliet Fall</b> (professor of geography at the Université de Genève) and filmic
<span style="color:#6860F6">SCENOGRAPHY</span> with <b>Constanze Fischbeck</b> (filmmaker, stage designer and professor of scenography at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design). In a final roundtable discussion we will discussb with all participants and Stefan
Brönnimann (professor for Climatology, University of Bern) the <span style="color:#6860F6">
FUTURES</span> of creative practices in academic research and teaching.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more information and the schedule (all times are in Central European Time) please visit <a href="http://mlab.unibe.ch">mlab.unibe.ch </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://mlab.unibe.ch/register/">Registration</a> is required to access the Zoom links.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For questions, please contact Claudia Pfister: <a href="mailto:claudia.pfister@giub.unibe.ch">claudia.pfister@giub.unibe.ch</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are looking forward to seeing you<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt">CONCEPT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt">Geography, and other academic disciplines, are increasingly seeking dialogue with the arts which has led some to speak of a creative turn in recent years. In the process, geographers have begun to experiment
with creative research practices that respond to critique concerning the limits of representing geographical research exclusively or mainly through academic texts, as well as narrow research methodologies. This symposium is an invitation to discuss, reflect
and learn how aesthetic experiences impact he communication and perception of scientific content, and to explore original ways of doing and representing geographies. In particular, we focus on new multi-sensory and affectual methods as well as collaborative
methodologies which can help us conduct research differently, generate distinct kinds of knowledge, and may provide the basis for new epistemologies.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt">In the lectures, workshops and final discussion, we will explore promising new mediums and artistic methods for research and teaching. We specifically ask: How can an engagement with the arts enrich ways of
doing geography in concrete and practical ways? To what extent can participatory and collaborative research change the relationship between academic geography and the wider public? And how can art contribute to creating other qualities and forms of knowledge?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt">Organisation: Mirko Winkel (mLAB) in collaboration with Elisabeth Militz (Unit of Social and Cultural Geography) and Alexander Vorbrugg (Unit of Critical Sustainability Studies)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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