ZMT - Leibniz Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung

1.11.16 | Professors Stefan Helmreich and Heather Paxson from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Anthropology recently facilitated an interdisciplinary workshop hosted at ZMT. The event, entitled “Infrastructures of NatureCulture in the Realm of the Intangible and Invisible” was organised jointly by Bremen’s Nature-Cultures Lab (under the aegis of Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht, Dr. Friederike Gesing and Prof. Dr. Michael Flitner from the University of Bremen) and members of ZMT’s Development and Knowledge Sociology cluster.

The half-day workshop included a diverse participant base comprising scholars, filmmakers, artists and policy-makers from Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Göttingen, Amsterdam, Bonn, Leicester, Kiel, Bremerhaven and Bremen.

As a forerunner to the workshop, participants together with Professor Helmreich visited several of ZMT’s laboratories including the Marine Experimental Ecology Facility (MAREE) with a guided tour by Silvia Hardenberg, the Thin Section Lab with Sebastian Flotow as well as the Mangrove Greenhouses with Prof. Martin Zimmer, and the BioLab toured with Dr. Achim Meyer.