Johanna Paschen
Johanna (she/her) is a PhD researcher at the EcoArtLab research project. She obtained her MSc in Human Ecology – Culture, Power and Sustainability at the Lund University in Sweden with her dissertation about ‘Can Art in Sustainability Education Challenge Marginalisation? Conversations with Youths and Practitioners in an European Context’, and her BSc in Liberal Arts and Sciences – Specialisation in Social Sciences at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. Her work experience is ranging from being a research and project assistant at NOAH – Friends of the Earth Denmark and being a team leader at Madboks a food saving organisation in Copenhagen, Denmark to working as a project assistant at the Wilderness Foundation UK in Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Prior to this she was a research assistant at the University of Groningen and a project assistant at the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen, The Netherlands.
Doctoral project
The PhD project research focuses on the importance of transdisciplinary just collaborative knowledge co-creation about critical climate and ecological justice between the arts and climate science. Thus, the research aims to investigate how different actors collaborate and how their collaborative work is influenced by framework conditions to reduce marginalised knowledge and ensure epistemic justice. The focus will be on artists, artistic researchers, scientists in the field of climate and ecology, societal actors, and living more-than-human and environmental forces. That means that every actor’s knowledge and experiences are equally represented, and on eye-level knowledge production is happening. Thereby, art is highlighted with the potential of reflexivity and critical analysis and is not well served by the mere communication of scientific results in transdisciplinary collaborations aiming to co-create knowledge.
Johanna’s role as a transdisciplinary expert in this subproject is to conduct research, observe, and reflect on applied practices, methods, and existing dynamics in external and established EcoArtLab collaborations. Ecoartlab.ch
Supervisors
Prof. Dr. Susan Thieme, Institute of Geography, University of Bern
Prof. Dr. Yvonne Schmidt, Institute for Practices and Theories of the Arts, Bern University of the Arts
Research focus
- Critical Climate Justice
- EcoJustice
- Transdisciplinarity
- Ecological Art
- Collaborative Practices
- Environmental Humanities
- Political Ecology