Tuesday, June 26
10:30 – 11:00 AM Welcome and Coffee
11:00 – 13:00 PM Morning program:
Futures, Islands and Symbiotic Imaginations – opening symposium
The Venice lagoon: an example of swamp as an ideal environment for a political system based on social organization and surveillance by Angela Vettese, art historian, professor at IUAV Venice (Italy)
Phyto-Sensor by Jennifer Gabrys, landscape architect and sociologist, professor at Goldsmiths University London (UK)
1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 – 5:00 PM Afternoon program:
From the imagination to the imaginal: The fate of creativity in post-Fordist capitalism by Chiara Bottici, philosopher, professor at the New School (Italy / USA)
Kūlgrinda by Gintautas Mažeikis, philosopher, professor at VDU Kaunas (Lithuania)
Anthroposcenarium. Systematization of the Human Environment by Nikola Bojić, curator and art historian, Institute of Art History Zagreb / MIT research affiliate (Croatia)
5:00 – 6:00 PM Discussion: Building up New Vocabularies
6:00 – 7:00 PM Swamp Tea
7:00 – 8:30 PM Evening program:
Land, Water, Ice, Subsoil and the Submarine, a film program by Ilona Jurkonytė, film critic and curator, PhD candidate at Concordia University in Montreal (Lithuania / Canada).
Screening of the films Sirenomelia – directed by Emilija Škarnulytė, 12 min. 2017
Sunstone – directed by Filipa César and Louis Henderson, 35 min., 2018

Wednesday, June 27
10:30 – 11:00 AM Welcome and Coffee
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Morning program: Lectures and workshop presentations
Participation Matters with Assemblea Sociale per la Casa by Marjetica Potrč, artist and professor at the Design for the Living World, HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg (Germany / Slovenia)
Swampification by Lorena Bello & Brent D. Ryan, urbanists, professors at SA+P MIT (USA)
Holm by Tobias Putrih, artist, lecturer at ACT MIT (USA / Slovenia)
Making New Land Thomas Pausz, designer, professor at the Art University Reykjavik (Iceland)
1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 – 5:00 PM Afternoon program: Workshop time
6:00 – 7:00 PM Swamp Tea
7:00 – 9:00 PM Evening program: Swamp Night Lights
The swamp as ecological megapolis by Remigijus Daubaras, biologist, professor at VDU Kaunas (Lithuania)
Light at night in swamps and Glowing in the dark workshop with Asta Malakauskienė, biologist, researcher at VDU Botanical Garden Kaunas (Lithuania)

Thursday, June 28
10:30 – 11:00 AM Welcome and Coffee
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Morning program: Lectures and workshop presentations
Materiality and Methodology after Explosion and Destruction by Armina Pilav, architect, lecturer at TU Delft (Netherlands/ Bosnia)
Scapes of the Swamp School by Indrė Umbrasaitė, architect, assistant professor at Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien (Lithuania / Austria)
Venetian Soap Workshop by Shane Reiner-Roth, architect, graduate student at SA+P MIT (USA)
1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 – 5:00 PM Afternoon program: Workshops
5:00 – 6:00 PM Swamp Tea

Friday, June 29
10:30 – 11:00 AM Welcome and Coffee
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Morning program: Workshops / Field trips
1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 – 5:00 PM Afternoon program: Workshops / Field trips
5:00 – 6:00 PM Swamp Tea

Saturday, June 30
10:30 – 11:00 AM Welcome and Coffee
11:00 – 13:00 Morning program: Presentations by different teams
1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch
2.00-4.00 PM Afternoon program: Presentations by different teams
4:00 – 5:00 PM Swamp Tea