Students from two universities collaborate on an exhibition in Bíó Paradís

The exhibition ´We need to talk´ will open today at Bíó Paradís. It is based on a collaborative course between students from the MA Design programme at the University of the Arts and students of environmental and natural resources and geography at the University of Iceland. The exhibition is open during the weekend.

The exhibition will show short films and installations made by the students in this first edition of the collaborative course between these two contemporary programmes. Using the medium of film, they approached societal, environmental and philosophical issues together with researchers at the University of Iceland. 

While the sciences unearth facts and strive for generalized objectivity, the arts offer possibilities for emotive connection through their explorations of the subjective. In joint conversation, they can create narratives that make the abstract personal and generate empathetic discourse on societal challenges.

The course was organized by Uta Reichardt, Postdoc at the University of Iceland and taught together with film maker Davíð Alexander Corno snd MA design program director Thomas Pausz.

The hands-on intensive course is an exercise in communicating and collaborating across fields and challenged the participants to find a common language and together approach a research field, and collaboratively translate it into a visual format that engages the viewer with the subject. The videos were informed by conversations with researchers and practitioners from agriculture, biology, environmental science, glaciology, philosophy and transportation engineering.

The exhibition will be opened today at 5.30 pm today and ends on Sunday. It is open to everybody and the entry is free of charge.