Climate anxiety is widespread: Many people feel helpless, sad, or persistently anxious in the face of global environmental changes. In Germany, over 55.3% of people are very or extremely concerned about the climate—the highest figure in all of Europe.
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Open Lab Abend: Wer hat Angst vor Klima?
How can people engage with climate-related emotions when climate change simultaneously eludes their cognitive understanding?
Dr. Lea Luka Sikau, spokesperson for the Young Academy’s Sustainability Working Group, offers insights into her artistic research on climate anxiety, sound, and vibration. Together with music therapists and psychologists, as well as the Young Academy, she is working on exhibitions and new operas on this topic, among other projects.
After a brief introduction and subsequent discussion, participants will take an active role:
Personal experiences with climate anxiety will be transformed into artistic form, and perspectives will be shifted. To this end, exercises from speculative fiction will be used, and participants will work with sound islands
Cooperation
A collaboration with the Young Academy, whose sponsoring academies are the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina e.V. – the latter is one of the Futurium’s founding partners.
Workshop Leader
-> Dr. Lea Luka Sikau, artist, mezzo-soprano, and sound scholar, works at the intersection of ecology, opera, and media art. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and was a fellow at Harvard University. She was awarded the Bavarian Culture Prize for her research. She has collaborated with Romeo Castellucci, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Marina Abramović, and Rimini Protokoll, among others. Institutions such as the Ars Electronica Festival, Transmediale, and Climate Week NYC have commissioned her as a media artist for art installations and exhibitions. At the ZKM, she heads the Sound Department and curates music and sound art. She has been a member of the Young Academy since 2025.
Information
-> Venue: Workshop Futurium Lab
-> Admission: free
-> Registration is required.
-> Remaining tickets are available on-site.
-> Event language: German
-> Maximum number of participants: 20 people
-> The event is open to anyone aged 16 and older.
-> Duration: 3 hours
-> Participation requirements: no prior knowledge required
Tickets
-> You need a free ticket for this event.
-> Due to limited seating, only one ticket per person can be booked.
Additional information
Photos & Videos
Photos and videos will be taken during the event. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed, please let us know in advance.
Accessibility
Accessibility
-> Wheelchair-accessible venue.
-> Spaces without seating are available for wheelchair users.
The future is for everyone! Futurium aims to be accessible to all. If you have any additional accessibility needs, please let us know: info@futurium.de
Dates
September 2026
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