Festiwal Przemiany: Rok zero – Examining Post-Pandemic Futures and Societal Transformations

The 10th edition of the Festival of Transformations, themed 'Year Zero,' explores possible future scenarios following the COVID-19 pandemic. It features lectures, workshop-panels, virtual tours, inspiration shorts, cinema, expert talks, and closing events to discuss societal changes and technological impacts.

The tenth edition of the Festival of Transformations, titled 'Year Zero,' delves into the variants of the world's future following the COVID-19 pandemic. This edition uses 'Year Zero' as an analytical perspective, a moment where the pandemic experience is beginning to be inscribed into history. The festival explores whether 2020 will be considered an inconvenient break in 'normality' or a turning point, a caesura marking a new era. It examines the potential consequences of the pandemic in addressing social inequalities and tensions, or conversely, if fear and uncertainty might lead to a zero-sum game logic. The event highlights the acceleration of digitalization, discussing the role of digital technologies in simulating contact, facilitating work, and enabling cultural participation during lockdowns, while also raising concerns about privacy. It also touches upon global, intergenerational fears related to climate change and the urgency of addressing it, contrasting it with the response to the pandemic. The festival aims to analyze data related to the pandemic period, present likely future forecasts, and discuss desirable visions for the future. It will showcase breakthroughs in science and technology with societal implications, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue. The program seeks to combat fatalism by identifying problems, proposing solutions, sharing resources, and finding language to describe a world made more fluid, complex, and ambiguous by the pandemic. Various formats, including lectures, interactive workshops, panels, virtual tours, short audiovisual pieces, cinema screenings, and expert talks, contribute to this exploration.

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