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Project presentation "Future Dialogues" at the Staatstheater Kassel
How can our economy become more resilient to crises? Can we incorporate human needs more into the development of technology? How can we overcome inequalities between societies?
These and other questions had been posed by citizens of Kassel in recent months in a total of three Future Dialogues organized in the spring by the University of Kassel, Scientists for Future Kassel and the Staatstheater Kassel. They are now being addressed both in the artistic production "Temple of Alternative Histories" at the Staatstheater and by researchers from the University of Kassel and Scientists for Future. The "Future Dialogues" project takes place as part of the Year of Science 2022 - In Demand!, a joint initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD).
Prior to the premiere, a project presentation will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the theater foyer. The artistic team, consisting of Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Anna Rún Tryggvadottir and Cassandra Edelfsen Lasch, as well as Cordula Kleidt, Head of Division Science Communication at the BMBF, Intendant Florian Lutz and Beate Hentschel from the University of Kassel will talk about the genesis of the artistic work and about the chances of science and art working together to answer the social questions of our time. The production ends with an audience discussion, during which the Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason, author of the book "Water and Time: A History of Our Future", will also be in conversation with the visitors.
Afterwards in the opera house:
World premiere "Temple of Alternative Histories"
An interdisciplinary project by Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir and Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson
with music theater, acting and dance ensemble, choir and large orchestra as well as digital technologies, science and art.