mLAB University of Bern

System Relevant!

During the pandemic, many so-called “essential workers” outside the healthcare sector—often low-wage workers in care and maintenance—faced greater job insecurity, economic pressure, and health risks, while having little opportunity to work from home. Despite their crucial role, they largely remained out of the spotlight.

System Relevant! is now online. Developed from interviews with 37 essential workers in Switzerland, this interactive digital tool gives voice to people whose labour kept cities running during the COVID-19 pandemic while often remaining overlooked: workers in retail, childcare, cleaning, and public transport. Through the fictional but research-based characters Sarah, Peter, Ivana, and Silvina, users can explore everyday experiences of work, care, mobility, housing, and precarity in urban space.

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🎬 Global Science Film Festival 2025 🌍

The 7th edition of the Global Science Film Festival is here, taking place October, 24at Filmpodium Zurich and October, 25-26, 2025, at Cinema REX in Bern.

This year’s selection spans diverse genres and topics — from elementary particles and metal extraction to wolf populations, q***r bodies, conspiracy theories, asbestos workers, and even kidney stones.
Each screening is followed by a moderated discussion with filmmakers, researchers, and the audience. Plus we invite you to join us for afterparties on Saturday and Sunday evening!

🎟️ More info & full program: https://globalsciencefilmfestival.ch
Universität Bern Swiss Science Film Academy Kino REX BernCDE - Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern

🎬 Global Science Film Festival 2025 🌍

The 7th edition of the Global Science Film Festival is here, taking place October, 24at Filmpodium Zurich and October, 25-26, 2025, at Cinema REX in Bern.

This year’s selection spans diverse genres and topics — from elementary particles and metal extraction to wolf populations, q***r bodies, conspiracy theories, asbestos workers, and even kidney stones.
Each screening is followed by a moderated discussion with filmmakers, researchers, and the audience. Plus we invite you to join us for afterparties on Saturday and Sunday evening!

🎟️ More info & full program: https://globalsciencefilmfestival.ch
Universität Bern Swiss Science Film Academy Kino REX Bern CDE - Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern

mLAB Retrospective: Exhibition Making Babies in Bern (Kornhausforum) and Berlin (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung) 2022 – 2023

Banned (so far) in Switzerland and Germany but permitted in other countries: egg donation. The exhibition „Making Babies? Egg Donation and Reproductive Politics“ explores this reproductive technology and its social, ethical, and economic implications.

Based on the research of Laura Perler, with photographs by Tamara Sánchez Pérez. Curator: Mirko Winkel.

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mLAB Retrospective: Elusive Exposures Event Series 🍓🍓🍓

2022: This project explores and attempts to trace the effects of pesticides and other contaminants on human bodies and the rest of the environment. The event series took place throughout May 2022 at the Institute of Geography of the University of Bern.

Elusive Exposures brought together artist Lucy Sabin, geographer Nora Komposch, and soil scientist Professor Adrien Mestrot, combining artistic and scientific approaches. Collaborations took the form of creative mapping, excursions and workshops, symposia, and an art exhibition.

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mLAB Retrospective: mLAB Symposium

The mLAB Symposium invites outstanding researchers and artists from different disciplines. 2022’s “Other Cartographies” deals with geography’s search for artistic-activist-feminist visualizations.

Panel discussion with IRENE HIRT, YVONNE SCHMIDT, CHRISTINE SCHRANZ & KATHARINA SCHMIDT. LIZE MOGEL on Spatial Politics, ÉLISE OLMEDO and SEBASTIEN CAQUARD on Narrative Cartography, ISABELLE BENTZ on Data and Space, THEO DEUTINGER on Time and Space, KATHARINA SCHMIDT on Mapping the Body, KATRIN SINGER on C/artographic Methods, JONI SEAGER on Mapping the Patriarchy & KOLLEKTIV ORANGOTANGO with ANA MENDEZ DE ANDES, PABLO MANSILLA QUINONES, GEOBRUJAS, JUAN JULLIAN FIGUEORA, TAMARA ACOMPA ORTEGA on Counter Cartography.

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mLAB presents the
6th Global Science Film Festival
Festival Opening
📅 Nov 8, 2024
🕕 6 PM
📍 cineClub, Laupenstrasse 17, Bern
Opening Film: ETERNAL YOU
An exploration of an industry that uses artificial intelligence to bring immortality to loved ones who have died.
The screening is followed by a discussion with filmmakers & researchers on art historical, palliative care and legal perspectives. Afterwards you are invited to an Apéro.
More Infos and tickets (limited free tickets for students): https://mlab.unibe.ch/6-global-science-film-festival/
Film in English with German subtitles

Festival Overview
From November 7-10 in Bern, Zurich, Basel, and Lugano, we will be showing feature films, documentaries, and short films related to current scientific debates, followed by discussions with the filmmakers and experts from research and other fields of practice. The short film sessions provide the stage for filmmaking by postdocs and PhDs. Learn more: www.sciencefilm.ch

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5th Global Science Film Festival 2023: Bern Edition.

You can find the extended Program, Trailers to the Films, aswell as Tickets and more on our Website, Link in Bio.

5th Global Science Film Festival
📽️Date: 28.10. – 29.10.2023
📽️Location: Kino REX Bern

In collaboration with the Swiss Science Film Academy, the mLAB University of Bern presents the 5th Global Science Film Festival. 🎥🎓

World politics and science meet on the big screen. The festival will show international feature films, documentaries and short films that link social developments with current scientific debates.

Following the film screenings, the topics will be explored in depth in moderated discussions between the audience, filmmakers and researchers.

Universität Bern EthnoKino Yevhen Tkachh EXPL FILMS Ukrainian Society of Switzerland Pong Berlin Alex Gerbaulet Aconite Productions, Casatarántula ALIS.film Nicolas Van Hemelryck Rodríguez Clare Weiskopf McCormick The Seeds of Vandana Shiva Memento International Luca Tschiderer Susan Thieme Sabrina Althaus CDE - Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern