Energy, culture and climatic change

The project 16/2017 by the artist Joana Moll proposes the Santa Mònica to reduce its energy expenditure by 50% during the four months of the exhibition Exhibit · Not to Expose · Expose · Not to exhibit. In order to achieve this objective, the artist has set up a negotiation table where regular meetings are held to negotiate the energy budget for the exhibition and correct any possible deviations. These meetings are open to the participation of the public, members of the centre's management team and all those involved in the exhibition.

This project provides an opportunity to discuss the relationship between culture and resource management, a fundamental relationship in the fight against climate change, but one that is often relegated to the background. We are aware that this is a complex problem that requires various approaches and points of view to solve. That is why we are organising a series of roundtables with personalities from different fields, but with a certain agency, to raise and enrich a rigorous debate on this issue.

 

Negotiation tables

Programmed by Joana Moll and Maria Farràs.

9 November, 6 p.m.
Management team of the Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (ICEC).

23 November, 5 p.m.
Marta Torres Gunfaus, Senior Researcher on Energy and Climate at l’IDDRI (Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales).
Francisco Doblas Reyes, ICREA professor and director of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), one of the scientists who coordinated the latest IPCC report..
Mar Carrera, journalist and editor of the cooperative Pol·len Edicions, a publishing house specialising in eco-publishing.
Eva Sòria, director of Innovation, Knowledge and Visual Arts at the Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) of the Barcelona City Council.

21 December, 6 p.m.
Salvador Samitier, head of the Catalan Office of Climate Change.
Gemma Carbó, director of the Museum of Rural Life, the only museum in Catalonia that has declared an ecological and climate emergency and joined the international movement “Culture declares emergency”.
Emma Quadrada, journalist and cultural manager, programmer of activities at the Barcelona Network of Environmental Equipments.
Txell Bonet.
Jordi Oliver.

(It is recommended to come with warm clothes, a charged phone and, if possible, a torch).