“Lectures for Future“ is a lecture series with guest lecturers from various universities and research institutions, most of them part of the Scientists4Future, working on the most pressing societal and ecological challenges and their potential solutions. The lecture series is taking place for the 5th semester in a row, everytime at several higher education institutions, each of them with their own unique programming. More information on the initiative and the programs of the last semester (summer 2021) can be found here.

At Angewandte, we will host six guest lectures on various topics related to sustainability (see below). Typically, lectures will be 90 minutes long including discussion (17:30-19:00). We will start off with a general overview of sustainability concepts and our approaches and personal understanding of it. As the lectures address quite diverse topics, we will also dedicate time to clarifying open questions and contextualizing the content in order to establish a "golden thread" for the course.

"The future is collective"

As we do not want you to only be listeners but also creators, we will make use of the guest lectures as well as relevant literature as a basis for artistic reflections. These reflections could be in the form of posters, collages and/or Illustrations/scribbles, developed collectively in small groups. We will provide a respective input in one of the first sessions and dedicate two blocked sessions for working on these visual reflections together. You will then share your work with the course and maybe some of the guest lecturers at the end of the semester.

We are looking forward to the following guest lectures:

25.10.2021, 17:30-19:00 (online via ZOOM): Dipl. Geol. Christian Masurenko (ECTerra) - Responsible mining: the example of tantalum mining in Liberia

08.11.2021, 17:30-19:00: Dr.in Brigitte Ratzer (TU Wien) - Gender as a cross-cutting issue of the Sustainable Development Goals

15.11.2021, 17:30-19:00: Dr. Robert Koeppe (JKU Linz) - (De-)constructing climate change: the role of the building industry in the carbon cycle

29.11.2021, 17:30-19:00 (online via ZOOM): Prof. (FH) Dr. Johannes Jäger (FH BFI Wien) - Green finance: bearer of hope?

06.12.2021, 17:30-19:00 (online via ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/2441410708): Yasmin Dorfstetter, M.Sc. (BOKU) - Social dimensions of climate change mitigation

13.12.2021, 17:30-19:00: Mag.a Dr.in Elisabeth Frankus (IHS - Institute for Advanced Studies) - Ethics and artificial intelligence

To pass the class, you are required to fulfill two criteria:

1) Your presence in four out of six guest lectures as well as the final presentations on 17.01.2022

2) Your contribution to the artistic reflections "The future is collective" (co-working sessions on 22.11.2021 and 10.01.2022)

Grading will be scaled A-C for CDS-students and 1-5 for all other students.

External listeners are able to join the guest lectures upon registration (as long as COVID regulations and the room size allow for it). This also goes for the ZOOM sessions.

Please note: The course is worth 2.0 ECTS (not 1.0), to receive them please also register for the course with the same name hosted by Carlos Toledo.