PLANETKULT Phase 2 

Acker-Akademie: Terraforming Earth   

The PLANETKULT series is an artistic-scientific experiment structured in three consecutive phases: Dialogue, Acker Academy, and Theatre. Across these different formats, art and science come together to explore possible futures of life on Earth. We ask what new forms of coexistence might look like—between humans, other species, and their environment.

In collaboration with Floating University Berlin, the second phase focuses on key questions concerning the future of agriculture, food, and planetary ecology. It starts from the idea that “terraforming” may not be a distant, speculative concept, but something that has already been taking place on Earth for a long time—beginning with the Neolithic Revolution and the development of agriculture—and considers the implications this has for both the present and the future.

While tech visionaries dream of colonizing other planets, PLANETKULT turns its attention back to Earth: Do we need a new “Green Revolution”? Should we move beyond agriculture and produce food in laboratories? Or do future perspectives lie in regenerative approaches such as “Natural Farming”? And what role does humanity play in the potential restoration—or dismantling—of ecological systems?

Preliminary Program:  

June 4, 2026
6 pm, Reading & Discussion: Peasants’ Wars & the Apocalypse Today
Museum of Natural History 
With: Karsten Krampitz and Mirjam Wulff
Separate registration is required.

June 6, 2026 
8:30 pm, Open-Air Cinema: Silent Running (USA 1972), OmU 
Floating University Berlin

June 7, 2026
2 pm – 9 pm, Theme Day: Terraforming Earth 
Floating University Berlin
With: Peter Berz & Helmut Höge in collaboration with filmmaker Vettka Kirillova (Volksakademie), Anja Fiedler (Food Performance), Martina Kolarek (Die Boden schafft), Sophie von Redecker (Ackern gegen das Anthropozän), Ulf Soltau (Gärten des Grauens) and in between, a millet dinner with the cooking brigades.

Admission to the Acker-Akademie is free. Due to limited spaceplease register at planetkult@andco.de

A detailed program will be available starting mid-May 2026 at www.floating-berlin.org and www.andco.de

PLANETKULT: Planetarians of all nationsunite!”  is a production by andcompany&Co. in co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. The series is realized in cooperation with Brecht-Tage 2026, Floating e.V., Museum of Natural Historyand Naturwissen Network. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Community.