Symposium Day 2: RECLAIM AIR!

 10.30 am Welcome 

10.45 am Body practice & breathing techniques Donya Ahmadifar  

11.05 am Sa(a)ns a film by Haseeb Ahmed  

11:15 am Input Christine von Raven: Stuttgart between Climate Research and Planning Practice  

11.30 am Panel Inhale > Exhale: Between Car City and Care City (DE) 
Donya Ahmadifar (Dancer), Johanna Ackva / Judith Milz / Cécile Kobel (Artists), Christine von Raven (Climate Engineer, Transsolar KlimaEngineering and Stadtlücken e.V.)  
Moderation: Paula Kohlmann (Curator, Dramaturge)  

How does urban air quality affect our bodies? This discussion focuses on breathing, exhaustion, and physical strain – especially in Stuttgart, a car city with high emissions and a challenging basin topography. How do urban planning and mobility affect our health and well-being? Who can breathe freely, and who suffers from smog, whooping cough, or shortness of breath? For which bodies is the city designed?  
From queer-feminist perspectives, the participants discuss how the Car City can become a Care City – a city that centers care, bodily diversity, and social justice, and creates space where everyone can breathe and move freely.  

12.45 pm Lunch break 

2.00 pm Exchange Materializing Air – Making the invisible visible 
Listening session & screening with Sofia Dona and Lia Mazzari, Moderation: Yara Richter (Living being, sociologist, mother*) 

Starting from the question of how air becomes tangible as physical, political, and sonic matter, this exchange between artists Sofia Dona and Lia Mazzari explores often overlooked dimensions of this vital element. Sofia Dona addresses the use of artificial fog in military contexts, while Lia Mazzari investigates the acoustics of dust, wind, and large infrastructures such as airports. The conversation opens a space for shared listening, viewing, and reflecting on the entanglements of air with political histories, environmental processes, and our living environments.  

3.30 pm end 

From 7.00 pm Performance Program