Klimaresonanz
Unsere Lebens- und Wirtschaftskultur neu gestalten
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein

With Klimaresonanz (Climate resonance), Christoph Thun-Hohenstein develops a key concept for a low-emission and resource-light living and economic culture in a fundamentally renewed liberal democracy. To this end, he calls for artificial intelligence to prioritize climate, biodiversity and ecosystem protection and outlines far-reaching approaches for eco-social human-AI teamintelligence. He calls for circular revolutions to replace our linear economy, which is still fixated on resource extraction, production, consumption and disposal, with the comprehensive use of technical and biological cycles. He calls on cities to transform themselves into open resonance spaces and thus revive their role as influential centers of ideas. 

Klimaresonanz illustrates why we need the imagination and persuasive power of the arts to shape the future in an imaginative and responsible way. Designers, architects, visual artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and artists from other disciplines are the creative drivers whose overarching visions, diverse ideas and concrete solutions we urgently need.

Christoph Thun-Hohenstein is a cultural manager, curator and author working at the interfaces between visual art, media art, design, architecture and ecology, climate, biodiversity, regeneration and digitalization and artificial intelligence. As part of his work for the Austrian Foreign Ministry, he led the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York from 1999 to 2007. He was then Managing Director of departure, the City of Vienna's agency for the creative industries, until 2011. From 2011 to 2021, Thun-Hohenstein was General Director of the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art. In 2014, he founded the Vienna Biennale for Change, which he headed until 2021. He subsequently initiated the Vienna Climate Biennale.