| Friday 19 March 14.30-17.30
Nature Space Society: Bruno Latour
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Olafur Eliasson Green River 1998 © the artist
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Nature Space Society
The Institute for Meteorological Mediation is part of Olafur
Eliasson's The Weather Project. The Institute
consists of three sessions on the relationships between society,
space and nature, and how they are currently being transformed both
theoretically and by technological and environmental changes in
the world. Each session features a keynote presentation by a major
theorist whose work bridges art and science, followed by discussions
involving Doreen Massey (Professor of Geography
at the Open University) and chaired by Dominic Willsdon
(Tate Modern).
Bruno Latour
Keynote speaker Bruno Latour will conclude this series. Latour is
Professor of Sociology at the Ecole de Mines in Paris and is one
of the most widely read contemporary philosophers. Best known for
his work on science, the culture of science and its connections
to religion, art and sociology, his publications include We
Have Never Been Modern and Politics of Nature: How to Bring
the Sciences into Democracy (forthcoming in English in 2004),
which concerns the political philosophy of the environment. He is
co-curator of Making Things Public (2004) at ZKM in Karlsruhe.
Latour will be joined by Doreen Massey and
Gísli Pálsson (Professor of Anthropology,
University of Iceland). .
This event will be 
A collaboration with the Department of Geography at
the Open University
The Unilever Series: an annual art commission sponsored
by Unilever
Starr Auditorium
£5 (£3 concessions)
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