EARTHBOUND Symposium 2025

Secret Hotel (Denmark) invites you to EARTHBOUND 2025 a 3-day international and interdisciplinary symposium on 19th – 21st August 2025, that weaves together art and science to reimagine how we humans relate to the world. You dive into keynotes, workshops, triosessions, debates, performance excerpts, rituals and sharing sessions. This year's theme—soil and water—invites participants to reflect on our sensuous relationships with these elements and explore feminist knowledge in the face of climate emergency. EARTHBOUND is centred around knowledge sharing and co-creation in one durational event that engages both intellect and senses.

With EARTHBOUND we seek to stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue and investigate what the climate emergency does to the worldviews and actions of human beings within the arts, scientific research and other societal areas. We invite artists and researchers to meet and share their views and voices. At EARTHBOUND we welcome all artists and scientists who work with the more than human. 

SPEAKERS & ARTISTS
EARTHBOUND brings together a diverse group of changemakers, anthropologists, performing artists, visual artists, musicians, philosophers, teachers, researchers of various backgrounds and others who are concerned with reimagining our relation to the living world. Some of the speakers on this year’s program include: Minna Salami Author, social critic, and senior fellow and research chair at THE NEW INSTITUTE, Charlotte du Cann Writer, editor and co-director of The Dark Mountain Project & Venus Jasper Queer visual artist, storyteller, world builder, singer-priestess, public speaker, designer, researcher, educator, writer, and curator. In addition, the Artistic Leaders of EARTHBOUND Christine Fentz and Trine Rytter Andersen will also perform and give talks. You can read more about the speakers and artists here.

WORKSHOPS 
The workshop program of EARTHBOUND 2025 offers six parallel workshops that invite participants into immersive, sensorial encounters with soil, water, microbes, and mud – exploring themes of interdependence, grief, ritual, and more-than-human storytelling. Each participant joins one workshop, which continues over the course of the three days to allow for deeper engagement through embodied knowledge, ecological intimacy, and creative practices. 
You can read more about the six workshops here.

LOCATION
The symposium takes place at two different venues:
19 – 20 August: Himmelbjerggården (Ry, near Aarhus) - The first 2 days of the symposium will be held at Himmelbjerggården, a place for Regenerative practices and reflection.
21 August: Moesgaard Campus (Aarhus) - The third day of EARTHBOUND takes place at Moesgaard Campus (Aarhus University). For those who are only able to participate one day of the symposium, this day 3 can be experienced independently.

REGISTRATION
Is possible on our website 

FUNDED SCHOLARSHIP TICKETS

We offer a small number of funded scholarship tickets for participants in financial need. Read more through the ticket link here.

Secret Hotel

Secret Hotel is a 'place' with various interdisciplinary 'rooms', for adults or for children – always participatory in one way or another. And with roots in Deep Ecology-thinking.