Planetary Matters
How does science connect me to the planet?
From the soil to the stars, this track explores our relationship with the natural world. Here, In Touch means something elemental: the soil we walk on, the air we breathe, the water we share. This event track invites us to feel that connection as a lived, reciprocal relationship with a planet that sustains us.
We know more about the climate than any generation before, and we’re learning every day how to act on that knowledge. Ecosystems are shifting beneath our feet. Species are disappearing faster than we can name them, and scientists, communities, and activists are figuring out how to protect them. Somewhere between grief and action lies a relationship science can help us understand and strengthen: the one between us and the living world we depend on.
This event track is about our entanglement with the ecosystems we’re part of, the species we share this planet with, and the agency and imagination that come with environmental knowledge. It also includes the material and systemic dimensions of that relationship: energy transitions, food systems, circular economies - the physical infrastructure through which environmental change becomes personal and actionable.
GFZ Earth Update – Ein neuer Ansatz, um CO2 aus der Atmosphäre zu entfernen
2 November 2026 | 19:00–20:30 | Zeiss-Großplanetarium | DE
For millions of years the ocean has locked away CO2 as limestone. Could the same process work on a vineyard? Researchers from GFZ Potsdam present their RESET project in 360° fulldome for the first time: how millions of tonnes of CO2 a year might be stored permanently, and what that looks like in the field. The opening event of a new immersive lecture series.
GFZ Earth Update – Ein neuer Ansatz, um CO2 aus der Atmosphäre zu entfernen
2 November 2026 | 19:00–20:30 | Zeiss-Großplanetarium | DE
For millions of years the ocean has locked away CO2 as limestone. Could the same process work on a vineyard? Researchers from GFZ Potsdam present their RESET project in 360° fulldome for the first time: how millions of tonnes of CO2 a year might be stored permanently, and what that looks like in the field. The opening event of a new immersive lecture series.
HIGHLIGHTS
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Our relationship with the planet plays out at every scale. Explore how energy, resources, and materials become part of the systems we rely on through Everyday Infrastructure, or come closer to home with Body & Mind, where science meets our health, biology, and sense of self.
