The transmediale.09 conference Making / Thinking: The Cultural Tomorrow examines theories on climate change, checks forecasting models and questions economic, political and media-based technologies of interpreting such models.

Its intention is to encourage cross-disciplinary thinking by connecting scientific consideration, political calculation and economic interest with aesthetic, cultural and philosophical ideas. transmediale conceives DEEP NORTH as the necessity to contrast the amorphous phenomenon of climate change with new, radical thinking und acting. If we perceive climate change as a cultural change - or even more, as a possibility for a cultural revolution - the festival consequently needs to seek for new forms of presentation, communication and action.

Participants will include the Chinese blogger Isaac Mao, the media artist Atteqa Malik from Pakistan, the Hungarian philosopher Endre Kiss, the US-based sociologist Saskia Sassen, the energy expert of the German Institute of Economic Research Claudia Kemfert and the architect Francis Kéré from Burkina Faso. Sheila Jasanoff, professor of science and technology studies at Havard University, will give a keynote, while Dutch media theorist Rob van Kranenburg chairs the conference.

in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education