Workshops of the SummerAcademy 2025
Hélène Rey
Workshop
Exploring Polarities in Cultural Transformation
How do societies balance tradition with transformation? Preservation with adaptation? Drawing from insights gained through recent archaeological fieldwork at a seventh- to eighth-century Uyghur urban site in Mongolia and research on Mongol Central Asia, this workshop explores the fundamental polarities that emerge when …
Aiza Asi
Workshop
Exploring Economic Polarities: Understanding our Daily Life
We explore the captivating world of economic polarities! This interactive session uncovers diverse perspectives that shape our economic landscape, sparking meaningful discussions among eager young thinkers like you. Economics is the heartbeat of society, woven into our daily lives, influencing your story and relationships. …
Monika Dillier
Workshop
Exploring Polarities in Yourself
Polarity and psyche are closely related siblings. You can’t have one without the other. For example, we feel attracted or repelled by people or certain topics. We desire something and reject it. This can trigger inner tensions or conflicts within us.
Thinking and feeling in polarities is fundamentally vital or even essential for survival.
Daniela Ropelato
Workshop
Polarization in Politics and Policies
Are you ready to explore together how we can transform the challenges of political polarization into opportunities for dialogue and collaboration?
Focusing on the escalating issue of polarization in politics and public policy, we aim to explore tools and perspectives to understand and respond to. The goal …
Kyoung-Im Kwon
Workshop
Exploring Polarities in Art
The workshop starts thinking about the polarity that could be found in our personal lives through the nonverbal medium of art. And with reflection, the process goes further.
This workshop suggests that we express our emotions and thoughts abstractly or in a realistic way with diverse materials.
Claus Oberhauser
Workshop
Conspiracy Theories, Populism and the Limits of what can be said
In recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in polarization in Western societies due to conspiracy thinking and populism. On the one hand, social media such as TikTok or Instagram act as catalysts for this development; on the other hand, we are living in an age of fundamental social crises.
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Ria Wintjes
Workshop
Exploring Polarities in Cooking Dishes
When my children were teenagers, exchange students came to live with us. The first was a Jewish girl and through her I learned what kosher cooking is. Later there was a Buddhist boy from Thailand, and once there were young people from Finland, Italy, the Canary Islands, Poland and the USA at the same time. I also lived in Switzerland, and I have traveled to Zimbabwe and ….
All these experiences made me aware of the great cultural and religious differences in preparing and eating food.
Zsuzsa Román
Workshop
Exploring Polarities in Sustainable Lifestyle and Public Health
We invite you to participate in five engaging workshops focused on public health issues:
- Sustainable Lifestyle, Sustainable Consumption?
- The Effects of Climate Change on Human Health
- We Are Connected: Relationship Between People and Nature
- Do Sounds and Noise Connect or Divide Us?
- What We Learned & Your Voice
Through interactive tools and games, …
Karin Engeli & Andreas Zahn
Workshop
Exploring Polarities in Dancing Tango
Dancing Tango Argentino signifies polarity.
This workshop focuses on the aspect of ‘Know-How,’ the developed communication we
use as tango dancers. The goal is not one-sided communication but mutual exchange within the dance and the couple. To achieve this, we use motion analysis, asking
ourselves: How do I take a step? How many steps are possible? How do I lead my partner into a movement? How do leadership impulses work?
Pál Tóth
Workshop
Exploring Polarities through Communication
Across cultures and communities, there are things we avoid saying — not out of politeness alone, but often due to deep social codes, unspoken tensions, or fear of rupture. These conversational taboos and hidden conflicts are not just private dilemmas: they shape public life, group cohesion, and even the possibilities for collective change.
This workshop explores how the things we do not say influence the relationships we do build.
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