LOTinContext: Ecosystems
Thu, Dec 11
|Das LOT, Wien
With this special edition of LOTinContext, we open a collective thinking space at the intersection of science, art, and community-building. In preparation for launching our new transdisciplinary ecosystem next year, we want to take one step back in order to look further ahead.
Time & Location
Dec 11, 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Das LOT, Wien, Absberggasse 31, 1100 Wien, Österreich
About the event
What does an ecosystem mean as a practice, not just as a metaphor? How this biological concept could help to foster new ways of artistic production and how it could be understood more as a living cycle rather than a linear output model?
This edition brings together two different fields that inspire us in shaping a long-term, collaborative and interconnected artistic-research environment:
Laura Coulson (Biochemist & Researcher) offers an insight into ecological and biological system logics: resilience, interconnectedness, resource circulation, regeneration and symbiotic cooperation as an evolutionary strategy.
Patrícia Reis (Artist, Founder – Mz Baltazar’s Lab*)shares hands-on experiences from creating and running a self-organised, community-driven art space, how collaborative structures work, how knowledge circulates, and how long-term, independent cultural ecosystems can emerge.
Together with our team and your as our audience or potential future collaborator, we will explore questions such as:
• How do ecosystems organise themselves and what can we…