Research workshop linked to the Climate Engines exhibition, carried out in collaboration with the Chair of Climate Change University of Oviedo and the Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives.

This research workshop will bring together experts, university students, and citizens to investigate the idea of Asturias as a climate refuge. In the potential transition of Asturias from a natural paradise to a climate refuge, what opportunities and challenges arise?

The workshop will include expert participants from various fields such as geographers, biologists, architects, artists, curators, engineers, ethnomusicologists, and amateur meteorologists, representing both Spain and Europe. Student participants will come from the degrees of Tourism, Commerce and Marketing, Geography, and Biology at the University of Oviedo. The list includes Ricardo Anadón, Arturo Colina, Daphne Dragona, Jussi Parikka, Sonia Puente-Landázuri, Antonio Giráldez, Pablo Ibáñez, LLorián García-Flórez, Javimo, Amanda Masha Caminals, Stefan Laxness, Ícaro Obeso Muñiz, Irene Ezquerra, Daniel Herrera Arenas y Alfonso Suárez Rodríguez.

The research methodology, designed to be agile, will involve field visits and group discussions.

The workshop’s findings will be presented in an audiovisual piece titled “Asturias: From Natural Paradise to Climate Refuge – Five Key Considerations.” This piece will be included in the Climate Engines exhibition.

With the support of Spanish Government on the occasion of Spain’s rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU.

In collaboration with:

CuCC Chair of Climate Change of the University of Oviedo; the Jovellanos Faculty of Commerce, Tourism and Social Sciences of the University of Oviedo; and the IMNA Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives, dependent on the Centre for Innovation in Technology for Human Development Polytechnic University of Madrid itdUPM.