As part of the 8th International Photography Festival in November 2020 in Tel Aviv, Swiss photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer present their work The Human Face of Climate Change. Whereas climate change is often explained with a barrage of scientific data, graphs, hypotheses and forecasts, Braschler and Fischer have put a human face on the existential challenge facing our globe – thereby making it tangible, intimate and immediate. In a two-year journey around the world, from 2009 to 2011, the two Swiss photographers encountered a myriad of people who already bear the brunt of global warming – from the Ganges Delta over Siberia, the Swiss Alps and the Peruvian Andes to the Mojave Desert near Las Vegas. Their testimonials speak to the immediacy of the climate catastrophe, demonstrating that global warming is not merely an abstract problem for future generations, but that its consequences have already shattered the livelihoods of many around the world.
We lived in the first block of the cooperative housing project, in the third entrance, on the sixth floor. I had the large room that opened up onto the balcony. My sister had the little one with privacy. The neighborhood was built in the 1920s. There were four large blocks and six small, rectangular green […]
A conversation featuring Jacqueline Parish of Zurich’s municipal Planning Department and landscape architect and urban designer, RobinWinogrond, co-founder of Studio Vulkan Landscape Architecture in Zurich, City Architect of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Yoav David and landscape architect, Matanya Sack of Sack-Reicher Architects in Tel Aviv
There was still movement. Wind rippled water, made waves. Birds circled, headed south. And Rome was full of starlings. There was still movement, all the fish under water were nibbling at the bottom; overall, animals fed, mated, and spawned. They lay down to die. How does a doe die a natural death? How a whale? […]
Teder.fm, in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland in Israel, presents Heike Munder, Director of the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art in Zurich, in a podcast conversation with prominent local cultural figure Itay Mautner. Wake up and get inspired by a talk about the special philosophy of the Migros Museum, about art and artists during […]
Along with all the scientific questions the COVID-19 pandemic has generated, it raises two political questions of primary importance: what is democracy? And what system of governance do we want? Faced with the health situation in March 2020, every government in the world had to make decisions in the governance of its country. Some opted […]
