After Nature

The Humboldt Lab’s inaugural exhibition
Opens Spring 2021

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	Free entry
	English, German
	Accessible for wheelchairs
	1st floor, Humboldt Lab

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Opens Spring 2021

What do climate change and species extinction have to do with the crisis of democracy?

Swarm Intelligence

An interactive school of fish reacts to the movements of the audience referring to the sensitivity of and threat to eco-systems and biodiversity.

Orobates Papsti

This colorful model of a primordial dinosaur shows what top-notch research can achieve, and also reveals what we still have left to discover.

“Fairy Liquid”

Consumption and pollution: In the oceans, it would take 450 years for this plastic bottle to decompose into micro-particles.

“=I DOUBT THAT!=”

Doubt as the engine of research, here in a comment in the margin of a lecture transcript from 1885.

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Rendering of the projection of a shoal of fish in the foyer of the Humboldt Lab.

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Model of the Orobates Papsti

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This empty plastic bottle of Fairy Liquid was found in the fall of 2018 on a beach in Somerset, England. The bottle is 45 years old.

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The commentary on the margin of a lecture transcript by a student at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (today’s Humboldt-Universität) from 1885.

What to expect

Global environmental changes not only pose a threat to the very basis of our livelihoods; they also have far-reaching repercussions for the political and social structures of societies. The Humboldt Lab’s inaugural exhibition After Nature deals with the interdependencies of climate change and the loss of biodiversity and with worldwide challenges to democratic principles of order.

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