PLANETKULT Phase 2 

Acker-Akademie: Terraforming Earth   

The PLANETKULT series is an artistic-scientific experiment structured in three consecutive phases: Dialogue, Field Academy, and Theater. Through these different formats, art and science come together to explore possible futures for life on Earth. Are new forms of coexistence possible between humans, other species, and their environment?

Together with Netzwerk Naturwissen and Floating University Berlin, the second phase focuses on key questions concerning the future of agriculture, food, and planetary ecology. It starts from the idea that “terraforming” may not be a distant, speculative concept, but something that has already been taking place on Earth for a long time—beginning with the Neolithic Revolution and the development of agriculture—and considers the implications this has for both the present and the future.

While tech visionaries dream of colonizing other planets, PLANETKULT turns its attention back to Earth: Do we need a new “Green Revolution”? Should we move beyond agriculture and produce food in laboratories? Or do future perspectives lie in regenerative approaches such as “Natural Farming”? And what role does humanity play in the potential restoration—or dismantling—of ecological systems?

Program:  

June 4, 2026 – 6 until 8 pm
Peasants’ Wars & the Apocalypse Today
Reading & Discussion
Museum of Natural History 
With: Karsten Krampitz and Mirjam Wulff
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June 6, 2026 – 8:30 pm 
Silent Running (USA 1972), OmU 
Open-Air Cinema
Eco-sci-fi classic by Douglas Trumbull
Floating University Berlin

June 7, 2026 – 2 until 9 pm
Terraforming Earth 
Theme Day
Floating University Berlin
Featuring: Peter Berz & Helmut Höge in collaboration with filmmaker Vettka Kirillova (Volksakademie), Anja Fiedler (Food Performance), Martina Kolarek (Die Boden schafft), Sophie von Redecker (Ackern gegen das Anthropozän), Ulf Soltau (Gärten des Grauens) and in between, a millet dinner with the cooking brigades.

Admission to the Acker-Akademie is free. Due to limited capacity at the Floating University, advance registration is required.
Please register here: planetkult@andco.de

Program booklet download:
www.andco.de/PLANETKULT2_PROGRAMM

 

PLANETKULT: Planetarians of all nationsunite!” is a production by andcompany&Co. in co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. The series is realized in cooperation with Brecht-Tage 2026, the Naturwissen Network at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and the Floating University. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.