On 25 February 2026, the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum hosts an online conversation as part of the program “The Future Is Indigenous”, alongside the exhibition AMAZÔNIA by Sebastião Salgado.
In November 2025, Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon region, hosted COP30, the UN-Climate conference. Alongside the official summit, a People’s Summit brought together civil-society groups, social movements, and community organizations to discuss climate justice beyond the official negotiations.
Speakers Barbara Marcel, Camila Nobrega, Maureen Santos and Waleska Queiroz will offer a critical post-COP30 reflection on what continues after the summit and discuss how socio-environmental justice struggles continue beyond the first UN climate conference in the Brazilian Amazon, and how images and media are produced and shape the stories the world hears.
What visual and transmedia practices can generate counter-narratives shaped by the people most affected?
Talk curated by Barbara Marcel and Camila Nobrega. This event is part of Territories of Knowledge (2023–25), a research project co-developed with the Spore Initiative (Berlin).
Language: English, with live interpretation from Portuguese.
free
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Barbara Marcel is a visual artist, filmmaker, and researcher based in Brazil and Germany. Her work bridges art and research, focusing on socio-environmental justice through decolonial feminist lenses, the Amazon, and transnational extractivism. Since 2023, she has co-led the project Territories of Knowledge with Camila Nobrega, linking collectives in Belém and Berlin around climate justice and territorial rights in the context of COP30.
Camila Nobrega is a transmedia journalist and researcher based between Brazil and Germany, using feminist and queer decolonial methods to investigate infrastructure megaprojects connecting Europe and Latin America. Since 2023, they have co-led the project Territories of Knowledge with Barbara Marcel.
Maureen Santos is a political scientist, ecologist and climate justice activist based in Rio de Janeiro coordinating FASE’s Policies and Alternatives Unit (NUPA), which works on public policy and climate-justice alternatives. She is a professor of the International Relations Institute at PUC-Rio University. She has followed UN Climate negotiations for many years and is involved in the People’s Summit process linked to the COP30.
Waleska Queiroz is a Black Amazonian sanitary and environmental engineer focusing on climate justice. She has a long experience in socio-environmental projects at the intersection of climate, territories, public policy, and advocacy, emphasizing race, gender, popular participation, and anti-racist adaptation within the climate agenda. She co-founded the Observatório das Baixadas and is recognized as a 21st-century climate leader.
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Veranstalter: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
| Teilnahme frei.
| Rahmenprogramm zu: „DIE ZUKUNFT IST INDIGEN“,
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