Fellow Workshop: Rethinking Democracy through Art

7-8 July 2026 | Karl Jaspers Haus | Unter den Eichen 22, 26122 Oldenburg
Organisation: Mateo Belgrano and Gesa Wellmann

 

Programme

Tuesday, 7 July 2026

15.30
Introduction

15.45–16.45
Alfredo M. Vernazzani: Scaffolding Agency in Cultural Policy. A Capabilities Framework for Evaluating Cultural Interventions

17.00–18.00
Friederike Nastold: Worldmaking in the Garden

18.00–19.30
Cecilia Sjöholm: What Is Climate Activism? On Art, Action and the Symbolic Régime

 

Wednesday, 8 July 2026

9.30–10.30
Beate Störtkuhl: Some Remarks on the Relevance of Art and Cultural Memory to the Resilience of Society

10.45–11.45
Mateo Belgrano: Beyond Agonal and Irenic Art: The Amateur and the Future of Plural Democracy

11.45–12.45
Álvaro Arroyo: Art as an Ethical-political Model in Adorno and Rebentisch

12.45–13.00
Concluding Remarks

Workshop Poster "Rethinking Democracy through Art", 7-8 July 2026