As part of the exhibition “Meeresmenschen” (Sea People), a discussion round will take place on May 1 at 5 p.m. with photographer Barbara Dombrowski and the sea people Dr. Silja Klepp (professor of social geography of coasts and seas at CAU Kiel and co-holder of the UNESCO Chair for Integrated Marine Sciences), Rüdiger Stöhr (microbiologist and project manager at One Earth-One Ocean e.V, Kiel), Philipp Schubert (seagrass researcher at GEOMAR and SUBMARIS research diver, Kiel), and Kristian Dittmann (seagrass craftsman and marine biologist, Kappeln).
The discussion will focus on human-sea relations in Schleswig-Holstein and worldwide, as well as the solutions that the One Earth One Ocean organization has found to the problem of marine litter. We will also look at various aspects of seaweed. As a plant that provides us with useful services underwater by binding pollutants and storing CO2, we will also be interested in its benefits when dried.
Dr. Silja Klepp, who works on social processes and their social dynamics, provides the link between civil society’s interaction with and use of the coastal and marine environment and scientific research on the sea and its inhabitants. Her focus on the human-environment relationship in the Anthropocene, i.e., in the socio-ecological crisis, the biodiversity crisis, and other crises caused by climate change, embeds research, utilization, and rescue projects in a larger social and global context.
Admission: €10 including exhibition visit, reduced rate €8
