MAKE IT WORK / Le Théâtre des négociations

An experience never done before will take place on May 29th, 30th and 31st at Nanterre-Amandiers. A political, diplomatic, scientific, pedagogical and artistic experience.

200 students from all over the world will take part in a simulation of the international conference on climate change, the COP21 in front of an audience for 3 days. The real COP21 will take place in Paris, at the end of November and beginning of December. It will be a major deadline in our race against the clock to counter the increasingly rapid changes that our planet is now facing.

Implemented within the framework of “Make It Work”, a set of initiatives taken by Sciences Po in relation to the preparation of COP21, this project is set between the boundaries of political action and artistic creation. This won’t be about faking, even less about mocking what such a conference could be. This will really be about acting: acting in order to understand, to take action and to transform.

These conferences on climate change have accumulated a terrible delay for the past 20 years, in regards to the urgency of climate deterioration caused partly by our CO2 emissions. This lethal ineffectiveness is a consequence of the enormous complexity of issues in play, as well as the formats of such international negotiations meant to deal with these issues. The “Théâtre des Négociations” considers the multiple aspects of these two obstacles, basing itself on real topics and modalities of negotiations. However it chooses to experiment transfers and transformations leading towards an exit strategy from the current deadlock we have come to. In our days, every big university in the world uses a pre-enactment device where students reenact real situations in order to highlight what is at stake and the meaning behind them. With this “pre-enactment” in mind, Make It Work/ Le Théâtre des Négociations renews this new practice in a clearly interrogative and transformative goal. However, contrary to what happens in real climate conferences (and in university reenactments), the “Théatre des Négociations” will be open to the public, offering several modalities of interactions with the negotiators, as well as access to numerous informative documentation on the topic.

This project takes its origin in the belief that the failure and procrastination of these conferences on climate change are the consequence of representation issues: representations of the problems at stake and representations of the differents communities of people and beings on earth involved in such UN conferences. To represent is also at the base of theater, and it seemed appropriate to work with and within a theater, its structure as well as its environment, to rethink the machinery of a procedure in charge of no less than every life form on earth. A tragedy is at play, and what better place to address it?

Make it Work/ Théâtre des Négociations was conceived by SPEAP (Programme d’expérimentation en art politique de Sciences Po), around Bruno Latour and Frédérique Aït-Touati, around Laurence Tubiana and Mathilde Imer, in relation to the Make It Work group of Science Po. It is implemented by Philippe Quesne and the entire team of Nanterre-Amandiers and the architect collective Raumlaborberlin, with the help of Parsons School of Design and the Ecole nationale d’architecture de Paris-Malaquais, IDDRI (Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales) and CliMates.

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Call for applications 2015-2016

 

SPEAP recruits for next year social and natural science researchers, artists, designers, activists and administrators to work on the topic of how to recompose the representation of territories. To help selecting twenty students, candidates for the program should provide a small work, in whatever medium they find themselves most comfortable with, to offer some answer to the following topic:

‘Staging territories? Landscape, groundscape, underground’

Opening of the selection process for the 2015-2016 promotion:
-Posting of the call for applications: 3rd April 2015
-Deadline for online applications: 30th May 2015
-Application results: Wednesday, June 10, 2015
-Interviews: June 2015
-Communication of results: 30th June 2015

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Waiting for Gaïa

21 novembre 2011

Lecture by Bruno Latour at the Institut français de Londres :

“Waiting for Gaïa : composing the common world through arts and politics”

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