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Climate Existence: Beyond Future Forecasting
Far Beyond Future Forecasting — Climate Existence Conference 2023
A session held by Ylva Björnberg and at the conference:
Far Beyond Future Forecasting told the story of two futurists who, after years of producing insights and data-driven projections, chose to pause — taking 100 walks and writing 100,000 words. Somewhere along the way, clarity gave way to mystery.
Through story and reflection, participants were invited to move beyond intellect and into non-ordinary reality, where oak trees, squirrels, and seven horses became unlikely teachers. The session offered a contemplative space to sense the living intelligence of the world — beyond analysis, beyond prediction, and back into presence.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
How can we embrace the dismembered world, live meaningful lives and actively engage for better?
Herds of ice calves leave the Arctic never to be seen again – testifying that the graphs and numbers from climate predictions are realized in the world beyond papers and projections. While humans flee war and famine, and the political as well as the natural landscape shake beneath our feet – we meet in Sigtuna for the sixth ClimateExistence conference 2023. Having listened to the scientists we realize listening to them alone might not be enough – do we need to hear the ice howling too?
How can we embrace the dismembered world, live meaningful lives and actively engage for better? What are the emotional repercussions of this climate crisis and what lies behind the graphs and numbers signaling this catastrophe? What is yet to reveal itself and how do we differentiate between the stars and satellites?
CEMUS and the Sigtuna Foundation invite you to join us for an exciting ClimateExistence conference! We aim to be a meeting place between artists, activists, academics, faith practitioners and anyone interested in the existential aspects of climate.
The conference featured Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins, Doughald Hine, Pella Thiel, Jan van Boeckel and Anita Goldman.
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