offen am 11.12., von 19:00 bis 21:00

LOTinContext: Ecosystems

With this special edition of LOTinContext, we open a collective thinking space at the intersection of science, art, and community-building. In preparation for launching our new transdisciplinary ecosystem next year, we want to take one step back in order to look further ahead.

organisiert von: Das LOT
Location: Das LOT, Absberggasse 31/2, 1100 Wien
Url: https://www.lot.wien/event-details/lotincontext-ecosystems

What does an ecosystem mean as a practice, not just as a metaphor? How this biological concept could help to foster new ways of artistic production and how it could be understood more as a living cycle rather than a linear output model?

This edition brings together two different fields that inspire us in shaping a long-term, collaborative and interconnected artistic-research environment:

Laura Coulson (Biochemist & Researcher) offers an insight into ecological and biological system logics: resilience, interconnectedness, resource circulation, regeneration and symbiotic cooperation as an evolutionary strategy.

Patrícia Reis (Artist, Founder – Mz Baltazar’s Lab*)shares hands-on experiences from creating and running a self-organised, community-driven art space, how collaborative structures work, how knowledge circulates, and how long-term, independent cultural ecosystems can emerge.

Together with our team and your as our audience or potential future collaborator, we will explore questions such as:

• How do ecosystems organise themselves and what can we transfer to artistic practice?

• How can independent art structures shift from dependency models to relational thinking?

• What prevents artistic research from burning out and enables regeneration and continuity?

• How can commons, co-creation and collective infrastructures work in everyday reality?

We will also share, for the very first time, an outlook on our planned ECHOLOT Ecosystem 2026–27, open our thinking processes, and invite feedback, synergies, collaborations and critical voices.

LOTinContext – Ecosystems is conceived as an open door & shared space of inquiry

For artists, researchers, cultural workers, activists, community spaces, institutions, and everyone committed to shaping a sustainable future for independent art and knowledge production.

It´s community over competition* so we are looking forward to welcoming you at our last event of the year and diving into this adventure together!

Diese Veranstaltung wird durch die Kulturkommission Favoriten gefördert und ist für alle interessierten Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner öffentlich zugänglich.