Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam

What does it mean to weather, together? Climate change bears down on us not only as an atmospheric event but as a political, social, and embodied reality, one that is felt unevenly across different bodies, communities, and landscapes. In this workshop, feminist environmental scholar Astrida Neimanis guides participants through the concept of weathering as both a way of thinking about and actively responding to our shared ecological predicament.

Drawing directly from their co-authored book How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change(Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, with Jennifer Mae Hamilton), Neimanis will guide participants in moving between theory and practice. The workshop invites participants to explore how we might reckon with environmental catastrophe not through paralysis or false optimism, but through care, attentiveness, and playful, low-tech collective action.

Rooted in feminist, queer, and anticolonial scholarship, the concept of weathering insists that not all bodies are equally exposed to environmental change. It asks us to sit with discomfort and difference while building community infrastructures for uncertain presents and futures. Crucially, it proposes that the personal and the planetary are not opposed: the slow erosion of stone, the grief after a flooded season, and the solidarity forged in crisis are all forms of weathering and sites of possible transformation.

Zone2Source, nestled within the ecology of Amstelpark, provides an ideal setting for this workshop: a space where art, ecology, and research meet, and where the weather itself is never far away. Participants are invited to come ready to think, make, move, and weather alongside one another.

About Astrida Neimanis

She holds a Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities at the University of British Columbia. A cultural theorist working at the intersection of feminism and environmental change, their research focuses on bodies, water, and weather as lenses for reimagining justice, care, and relation in times of climate crisis. Together with Jennifer Mae Hamilton, they co-coordinate the Weathering Collective and co-authored How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025).

This workshop is organized in collaboration with the Vrije Universiteit and the University of Amsterdam in the context of JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research, a six year long programme involving a consortium of universities, academies and cultural partners funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) . Read here for more information.