3 October
Level 0 (auditorium)
The lecture available in Polish and English.
The lecture will be interpreted into Polish Sign Language (PJM).
- 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
- ‘How to train the Social Brain: The neuroscience of empathy and compassion’
Lecture by Professor Tania Singer (Max Planck Society)
Level 1
- 8:30 PM – 11:00 PM
- Opening of the exhibition and experimental stations
- 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
- Expo 2000 DJ Set
The 15th edition of the Przemiany Festival will be opened by Tania Singer, a prominent psychologist and social neurobiologist from the Social Neuroscience Lab at the Max Planck Society in Berlin.
Professor Singer specialises in studying the neural, hormonal and developmental mechanisms that shape human social behaviour and emotions such as empathy and compassion. She is the founder and principal investigator of the ReSource project – one of the largest long-term studies of mental training. After the lecture, we invite you to the opening of the festival exhibition and experimental stations and the Expo 2000 DJ Set.
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM | Lecture
During the opening lecture, Professor Tania Singer will introduce the neurobiology behind social skills like empathy, compassion and perspective taking and show how to train this social brain with different types of mental training practices. Moreover she will show which benefits the mental training of empathy, compassion, mindfulness and other human qualities can have not only on boosting social skills and social cohesion but also on mental health and resilience. Finally, she will introduce a novel partner-based mental practice format, the Dyads, and present app-based scalable technology of how to bring this inner transformation work into different domains of society.
8:30 PM – 11:00 PM | Exhibition opening and opening of experimental stations
Exhibition Being-with. Towards Post-human Empathy is an experiment that expands the boundaries of empathy – from plants and animals to entire ecosystems. Its creators, artists and scientists, show that the future depends on the ability to recognise and build global, interspecies networks.
You will hear the singing of extinct birds and the sounds of melting glaciers, see robotic coral reefs and a smart bee hive. In a special ‘clinic’, you will make an ECG of the plants using a novel method of reading the biophysical signals sent during photosynthesis. You will enter a world where nature and technology are creating new, post-human narratives.
The exhibition is accompanied by robotic demonstrations, VR films and an interactive installation using immersive technologies, where you will experience first-hand what it is like to look at the world through the eyes of someone else. In the experimental arena, you can observe a swarm of small robots learning to cooperate thanks to artificial empathy algorithms. As every year, we invite you to take an active part: experience art with all your senses, make experiments at the research stations and talk to experts.
9:00 PM – 11:00 PM | Expo 2000 DJ Set
A Gdańsk-based beatmaker and DJ known for his creative approach to sound and setting new directions. He particularly enjoys working with classic samples – from boom bap through smoky lo-fi to jazzy trip-hop.
