Student-led Klasse Klima, founded at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2009, translates demands for climate justice and degrowth into aesthetic education and practice. Today, Klasse Klima creates physical and virtual seminars and symposia for the collective negotiation of creative knowledge.

Johann Otten (* 1991 in Celle, Germany) works as a dramaturg and journalist and lives in Zürich and Berlin. He is curious about the internet, technology & the future beyond fossils and interested in serial auditive story telling. Part of different collectives and organizations, Johann works with Klasse Klima on questioning the role and responsibility of art institutions in such a post-fussil future.

Lena Schubert is a Berlin-based cultural researcher and journalist. Building on her study of the history of aesthetic, ecological and economic knowledge, she works with the collective Klasse Klima to establish spaces for the unlearning of extractivist epistemologies in the creative fields and beyond. The bottom-up initiative Klasse Klima was founded in 2019 at Berlin’s University of the Arts to translate demands for climate justice and degrowth into aesthetic education and practice. Today, Klasse Klima creates physical and virtual seminars and symposia for the collective negotiation of creative knowledge.