Diversity in land use: bethelnut palm grows here as a crop between the rubber trees in a rubber plantation in Jambi province, Indonesia 2022. Photo: Immanuel Manurung
Diversity in land use: bethelnut palm grows here as a crop between the rubber trees in a rubber plantation in Jambi province, Indonesia 2022. Photo: Immanuel Manurung Festival in Indonesia and exhibition in Forum Wissen Göttingen Keeping the environment unspoilt, promoting social equality and strengthening sustainability - this is what connects researchers from the University of Göttingen and the university in Jambi on Sumatra with artists from Indonesia and documenta fifteen . Together, they are organising a festival in Permatang Kabau, a village on the island of Sumatra, as part of a collaboration for the contemporary art exhibition documenta , which will be held this year for the fifteenth time. The festival of Semah Bumi (balancing, serving, seeding) will feature concerts, art exhibitions and theatre performances from 12 to 13 March 2022. Starting with the question "What do we want our village to look like in twenty years?", the participants will formulate their wishes for the future and develop common goals from the perspective of sustainability in the region. "The holistic approach of our research offers a variety of opportunities to answer questions about sustainability and human-environment interactions from an artistic perspective," says Professor Alexander Knohl, head of the Bioclimatology Research Group at Göttingen University. The Collaborative Research Centre EFForTS brings more than one hundred researchers from Indonesia and Göttingen together to study the changing ecological and socioeconomic functions of tropical lowland rainforests.
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