DESCRIPTION

This BIP will demonstrate and enhance the contribution of the Humanities and the Arts to contemporary environmental challenges, with particular reference to the need to reconceptualize the relationship between the human and the nonhuman in the context of the contemporary environmental crisis. Moving beyond the assumption that environmental knowledge is produced primarily by the natural sciences, the BIP foregrounds the epistemic, experiential, and transformative contribution of disciplines such as philosophy, literature, environmental history, geography, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and the visual and performing arts. By reshaping how individuals conceive of, perceive, and attribute value to the natural world, the Humanities and the Arts are instrumental in fostering ecological literacy, sensitivity, and responsibility.

Building on these premises, the BIP integrates cognitive, perceptual, creative, and applied dimensions. First, the school offers students an interdisciplinary learning environment that facilitates dialogue among different humanities-based perspectives on the human–nonhuman relationship, thereby broadening students’ analytical frameworks and supporting the development of cross-disciplinary academic competencies. Second, the programme engages multiple experiential dimensions through which relations with the nonhuman are established, including cognitive, ethical, affective, sensory, and evaluative domains. To this end, the programme integrates interactive lectures, workshops, artistic and embodied practices, experiential laboratories, and outdoor activities.

Structure
17 recorded lectures on key environmental humanities topics: anti-anthropocentrism, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecoromanticism, antropocene/ capitalocene/ wasteocene, deep ecology, sustainability and the humanities, geography in the Environmental Humanities, Ecoperformance-ecodramaturgy, arts-based ecology.

7 Synchronous online classes: Live sessions with invited speakers on environmental ethics, environmental values, environmental history, interdisciplinary ecological perspectives, science and art, ecolinguistics.

Onsite component: A full programme including:
• Outdoor sessions
• Experiential and artistic workshops
• One roundtable on philosophy–literature
• Workshops on environmental psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology
• An evening event on environmental humanities and mass media
• Transdisciplinary sessions on animals, rivers, landscape perception, AI and ecology, post-normal science, etc.