Voices of Slag: Innovations of the Wasteocene

The conversation traces these “genesis moments” and the journeys that follow, from an initial sense of urgency to sustained inquiry, experimentation, and creation. Through personal stories, we invite audiences to explore how curiosity grows out of lived experience and becomes a force for art, science, and innovation. Encounters with landscapes, communities, ecological crises, and questions of origin become starting points for asking why things are the way they are, what could be changed, and what new possibilities might emerge. Across different geographies, cultures, and professions, shared patterns begin to surface in how people observe, question, and respond to the world around them.

The exchange reveals the reciprocity between artistic and scientific ways of seeing and making sense of experience, while taking a closer look at the psychology of creation and innovation. We aim to empower audiences through shared stories, encouraging them to become more attuned to themselves and their surroundings, and to approach the world with greater awareness, curiosity, and connection. Through direct engagement and practices of visibility, science communication takes on another dimension, revealing research as a deeply human act, as a way of being in touch.

An interactive sensory performance and will accompany the event, exploring the relationship between body and landscape, and reflecting on resilience, climate, justice, and planetary extraction through movement.