https://www.museomontagna.org/en/events/ecophilia/
09.06.2021 - 23.01.2022
Franco Ariaudo, Lia Cecchin, Cleo Fariselli, Corinna Gosmaro, Caterina Morigi
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Ecophilia emerges from the sphere of considerations in matters of sustainability that the Museomontagna has been exploring since 2018, fully aware of the role that mountain culture, and the institution that represents it, plays in critically tackling the environmental and social challenges of today and tomorrow. This project continues the “Sustainability Programme” initiated by the Museum with Post-Water, followed by Under Water (in the Filatoio, or old spinning mill, of Caraglio) and Tree Time (in the Museum and the MUSE in Trento): exhibitions characterised by a narration that – thanks to a dialogue between art, science and the Museum’s collections – focused attention on the consequences of mankind’s impact on Earth, as well as on the possible synergies between the human species and nature.
This new exhibition evolves around the concept of “ecophilia”, understood, according to the definition proposed by Ruyu Hung − Professor of Philosophy of Education at the Department of Education of the National Chiayi University of Taiwan – as a guiding thread for conceiving a new sense of empathy, an affective and corporeal bond with the world, both living and non-living, with which we coexist. A goal that we can reach by shifting from an anthropocentric way of thinking to a post-anthropocentric and ecocentric one, embracing a new multi-species vision of the world, creating new narrations and constructing new constellations of opportunities.