Wrap up of the Pathways to Sustainability Conference 2024 ‘At Home?’
We look back on a great conference and hope to inspire you a bit more! Take a look at the after-movie, highlighted talks and pictures. You can also find the video of the morning plenary below.
Plenary morning programme
Hanneke and Mia You
In addition to being researchers, Hanneke van Eijken and Mia You are professional poets. Together they wrote the poem Home especially for this conference and recited it as the start of the day.
Reflecting on the theme 'At Home?'
Rebecca Nordquist, curator of this year's conference, reflects on the theme 'At Home?'
Carolyn Steel
Leading thinker on food and cities, author of Hungry City and Sitopia. Carolyn Steel argues we should reshape our relationship with food. We should not feed ourselves in a way that is about profit, but instead focus on the life and human value that that food can bring: collaboration, good health, community and sense of purpose. "We have weirdly created the idea that food is cheap, but how can something that keeps us alive, be cheap?"
Emanuele Fantini
Emanuele took us to the Nile, a river often described as a source of conflict rather than a space for cooperation. How can people feel at home in an international river like the Nile, despite of conflicts and diversities?
Q and A with Carolyn Steel and Emanuele Fantini
Panel of experts
What does it take to create a truly just and sustainable home for all? We're diving into this question with a panel of six experts: Niki Frantzeskaki (UU - Cities), Hens Runhaar (UU - Sustainable food systems), Jeroen Heemsbergen (Nationaal Park Utrechtse Heuvelrug – Nature), Saskia Arndt (UU - Animal welfare and -health), Kjeld Werther (UU student - Ocean) and Shahnoor Hasan (Deltares - Water Governance).
Climate poets
Margot Delaet and Saskia Stehouwer recited the poem they wrote for this conference.
‘By the name of social capital’ wins Pathways to Sustainability Award 2024
Congratulations to the project ‘By the name of social capital: building local initiatives for community conservation areas in Indonesia’ for winning the fourth edition of the Pathways to Sustainability Award. Annisa Triyanti and her team receive the award for their collaborative conservation research in Indonesia’s remote Banggai Archipelago.
Lunch Activities and Breakout sessions
Lunch Activities
Over lunch, there was a variety of initiatives and art and science installations to visit.
- Sustainability speeddates
- The future of Youth@Home
- Zombie Ants VR
- Exhibition Circular textile sector
- Experiencing ecogames
- Poetry booth
- Recovering local biodiversity
- Climate Simulator VR
- Veenmobiel
Breakout sessions
In the afternoon of the conference day, a wide range of breakout sessions took place. They explored how we can become more impactful in the university and in society at large.
