PakmanSunday 13th November 2022 at Schuman Square, next to the Rosetta Stone of the Climate.
13.00: Citizens’ open mic event with Youth for Climate
14.00: Music for climate action with WeAre, Sen & killthelogo
Until the closing night (see agenda), come and browse the 14 stations of pre-collapse or…you can also choose the right way!
Revisit the history of the “oaf”, illustrated through engravings and monotypes produced from 20th April to 3rd May 2020 (during the first Covid-19 lockdown in Belgium).
Explore the theory of global and systemic collapse across industrial civilisations and the alternatives which could succeed it.
By Daniel R Poisson – September 2022
| Date | Theme |
| Monday 7th November | Democracy |
| Tuesday 8th November | Energy |
| Wednesday 9th November | Agriculture |
| Thursday 10th November | Economy |
| Monday 14th November | Inequalities |
| Tuesday 15th November | Education |
| Wednesday 16th November | Biodiversity |
| Thursday 17th November | Health |
| Sunday 20th November | Synthesis evening |
An inter-university forum for meetings between scientists and citizens will be held for nine evenings on the Place Schuman in Brussels.
From 6th to 20th November, a life-size replica of the Rosetta Stone will be exhibited on Schuman Square by a citizens’ collective. With a message engraved in four languages, it will serve as a reminder of the urgency of climate change at the time of COP27.
The universities Université Libre de Bruxelles, UCLouvain, ULiège, Université Saint-Louis-Bruxelles and UMONS have joined this initiative by organising 9 thematic evenings.
During these “climate nights”, which will be held from 18:30 to 22:00 under a marquee set up on Schuman Square (Brussels), scientists from the universities, citizens, and representatives of civil society will have the opportunity to debate the major issues linked to climate change: democracy, energy, agriculture, the economy, inequalities, education/transmission, biodiversity and health.
Universities have long been involved in fundamental and applied research on climate change, both to understand its causes and measure and quantify its effects, as well as to identify technical and social solutions to reduce its extent and impact. This cutting-edge research feeds into the teaching of future graduates and is at the heart of the universities’ commitment to sustainability across social, economic and environmental dimensions. In addition to these primary missions, we also contribute to the public debate by making information and expertise available to policy makers, the media and the general public.
The aim of these events is to encourage exchanges between universities and society, to identify the synergies which could make it possible to better meet the climate challenge, and to understand the main obstacles that need to be overcome in order to implement the necessary lifestyle and policy changes.
Each evening will be divided into two sessions, during which the topic will be introduced by short interventions of scientists, followed by discussions with the participants. The discussions of the thematic evenings will feed into a final synthesis evening on Sunday 20th November.
A replica of the Rosetta Stone, intended to be a symbol of the need for climate action ahead of the COP27 conference taking place in Egypt, has been unveiled next to the Schuman roundabout in Brussels.
“This stone symbolises our anger and our hope,” said Stéphane Vanden Eede, representative for the organisation Pakman, which is behind the installation, which was sculpted by Véronique Choppinet.
“Hope that after 50 lost years, we as citizens and politicians will take the necessary steps to fight climate change. We are no longer heading for a wall, we are just standing in front of it. It will take time and generations to rebuild the idyllic land that we have all allowed to be destroyed.”
Pakman is a collective that sprung out of the publishing of a 2022 white paper titled “Wanted: The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report,” which denounced the climate denial entangling both civil society and political bodies.
Its name is a nod to the video game character “which gobbles up everything in its path”, and the collective describes itself as being made up of citizens from every walk of life “coming together to denounce climate denial and push every level of power to take, swiftly and democratically, the urgent decisions which are required by the situation”.
The four sides of the Rosetta Stone are decorated with statements in four languages: French, Dutch, German and English.
As COP27 takes place from 6 to 20 November in Egypt, a 150m² tent on Place Schuman will simultaneously host citizens’ assemblies and ‘climate nights’, during which debate and information sharing can occur regarding themes such as democracy, energy and agriculture.
read more : https://www.thebulletin.be/rosetta-stone-climate-action-unveiled-schuman-roundabout