Karolina Żyniewicz

2025
Winna Góra near Poznań

Every day, the media delivers information about events from around the world that testify to ongoing climate change. Our daily lives are becoming increasingly uncertain and unpredictable. It seems necessary to develop strategies for finding our footing amid constant and radically rapid change. The aim of the workshop is to work with anxiety about the future and to deepen our relationship with the local environment. Being together with the human and non-human actors of our surroundings, and practicing conscious mutual care, is the strategy we will try to cultivate together.
The workshop was divided into two parts. In the first part, we searched for the material actors of the local nature-culture that can help us construct individual stories of our relationship with the area we find ourselves in, paying attention to those aspects/elements that seem particularly important to us and that we would not want to lose.
The second part was devoted to speculative and individual scenarios of loss. We will try to imagine possible events (mainly resulting from climate change) that could affect the region we are in. In this part, we will attempt to answer the following questions:
What could happen?
What would I fear the most?
What would I be most afraid to lose?
What would I do in a crisis situation?
How well is this region prepared for a potential climate catastrophe?

photo: Szymon Stachowski