Mirko
Winkel

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Mirko Winkel is the coordinator of the mLAB. The artist and curator teaches at the University of Bern and other places with the aim of synthesizing art with scientific research and socio-political concerns.

Susan
Thieme

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Susan Thieme is professor of Critical Sustainability Studies at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern. She brought the Global Science Film Festival to Bern and co-developed the Social Learning Video Method. She is co-founder of the mLAB.  MORE

Carolin
Schurr

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Carolin Schurr is professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Bern. As a feminist geographer, she has developed and experimented with affectual and visual methods to grasp the emotional effects of globalization processes on our intimate lives. She is co-founder of the mLAB.  MORE

Alexander
Vorbrugg

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Alexander Vorbrugg is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. His research interests include visual forms of research and science communication. He is part of the coordination group of the mLAB. MORE

Laura
Perler

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Laura Perler is a postdoctoral researcher in Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Bern. In her research she investigates inequalities in relation to reproductive technologies and the Swiss asylum system. In her projects she uses audiovisual approaches and collaborates with artists. Together with Mirko Winkel, she is currently organizing a traveling exhibition on egg donation. She is part of the coordination group of the mLAB. MORE

Stefan
Brönnimann

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Stefan Brönnimann is a professor in Climatology at the University of Bern. His research focuses on weather and climate reconstruction, climate models, climate dynamics, effects of volcanic eruptions on climate and climate and society interactions. MORE

Elisabeth
Militz

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Elisabeth Militz is an Assistant Professor for Social and Digital Geographies at the University of Innsbruck. As a feminist political and cultural geographer, her focus lies on global/intimate relations and digital transformations. She experiments with affectual and feminist digital methodologies for human geographies. MORE

Adrien
Mestrot

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Adrien Mestrot is a professor in Soil Science at the University of Bern. Part of his research topics is analyzing the biogeochemistry of soils under global change to improve environmental health and food production.  MORE

Nora
Komposch

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Nora Komposch is a PhD student and assistant in Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Bern. Her research interests are geographies of the body, care and reproduction, migration and labor, and politics of the global intimate. MORE

Prisca Pfammatter

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Prisca Pfammatter (she/her) is a PhD student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern. Her research explores the experiences of queer farmworkers in Switzerland, using dance-based methodologies to examine the intersections of gender, sex, sexuality, and social sustainability in agriculture.

Johanna
Paschen

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Johanna Paschen is a PhD student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. Her research interests include social and environmental justice, transdisciplinarity and artistic research. In cooperation with the Academy of the Arts Bern, she is involved with the research project EcoArtLab. MORE

Luca
Tschiderer

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Luca Tschiderer is a PhD student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. His research focuses on alternative practices of work in health- and care related contexts. As part of his PhD project he uses social learning videos as a participatory method towards workers inquiry. MORE

Sarah
Hartmann

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Sarah Hartmann is a Postdoc student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. Her research looks at issues around work, transnational mobilities and future transformations in healthcare from a critical sustainability perspective. MORE

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2021
Susan Thieme
Global Transformation
Rama Mani
Theatre
Workshop

Theatre of Transformation Workshop: Transforming Margins

Dr. Rama Mani is the Founder of Theatre of Transformation Academy, a non-profit association aiming at the champion of the emerging creative power of humanity to shape our shared future. Rama developed ‘Theatre of Transformation’ as a catalytic art form and transformative methodology, based on her 30 years of global and grassroots experience in peacebuilding, justice, strategic leadership and global governance.

In October 2021, Rama held a workshop at the Institute of Geography in Bern on “Transforming Margins: from Health Systems to a Healthy Planetary Society through the lens of the Theatre of Transformation Methodology”.

Starting from the public lecture the ensuing workshop took participants on a participatory and experiential journey through the four steps of the Theatre of Transformation Methodology developed at the University of Oxford’s Enacting Global Transformation Initiative. We explored in greater depth the transformative trajectories of the medical practitioners in the testimonies enacted in the colloquium. We saw how each of them transformed the margins they faced in their lives by ‘witnessing the reality’, ‘awakening new possibilities’, and ‘envisioning change’ in their health practices, and how, by doing so, they ‘enacted transformation’ in the health (system) of their societal environments. Applying the four steps of the methodology to their own lives and contexts, participants identified – and hopefully transcended and transformed – some of the margins that are relevant in each of their lives and contexts, with the collective aim of contributing to co-create a healthier civilisation and strengthened health system that supports collective health and well-being.

For more info about the Enacting Global Transformation Initiative and the Theatre of Transformation Academy, visit: Rama Mani, Theatre of Transformation Academy and Home for Humanity.