December 2025 - May 2026 | Boston
Swissnex presents the Planetary Embassy in Boston, a six-month series dedicated to international, interdisciplinary, and interspecies collaboration. Part of Swissnex’s global initiative to imagine a new “planetary diplomacy,” will explore how we can work with the more-than-human world to address urgent and interconnected crises.
From December 2025 to May 2026, the Swissnex office in Cambridge, MA, will transform into a Planetary Embassy, hosting conversations, installations, film screenings, and more on these topics featuring contributions from Switzerland, Boston, and beyond.
More events to be announced soon.
Swissnex presents the opening of Planetary Visions, an exhibition by young artists and thinkers reimagining how humans might collaborate with the planet—through empathy, care, and new forms of dialogue across species and ecosystems.
Swissnex in Boston, the world's first science and technology consulate, celebrates its 25th anniversary and the launch of the Planetary Embassy with an intimate reception.
The Planetary Visions exhibition showcases works by young artists and thinkers reimagining how humans might collaborate with the planet.
Through the first half of 2026, the Planetary Embassy will host events giving voice to non-human entities, ecosystems, and the Earth itself. Here's a glimpse of what's to come—and stay tuned for more!
Glaciers are melting at alarming speed around the world, threatening water supplies, sea levels, and habitat disruption. For Switzerland, glaciers are also intimate partners in the mountain landscape – sites of deep history, identity, and cultural practice. Join artistic and scientific voices from Switzerland and the US to consider how glaciers give life to ecosystems and cultures – and what we stand to lose by their retreat and disappearance.
Advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and linguistics are reshaping our understanding of communication beyond the human world. As we increasingly recognize the cognitive and social complexity of non-human animals, from primates to birds to whales and beyond, new questions emerge: How do they make sense of one another? How can we learn to listen more closely? And what might these insights reveal about ourselves?
The endangered salt marsh sparrow nests in the coastal wetlands of New England, a habitat threatened by sea level rise and development. Matt Aeberhard, an Emmy-nominated Swiss-British nature cinematographer, has teamed up with novelist Melanie Finn to tell the story of salt marsh sparrows, through a documentary film screening and discussion at Swissnex. Explore both the science that links climate change, habitat loss, and species extinction, and the storytelling forms that can educate us to better represent the interests of threatened species.
Our ability to understand large-scale earth systems – from large weather patterns to climate change and ocean ecosystems – is rapidly advancing thanks to new earth observation tools, many of them operating from outer space. Scientific breakthroughs come thanks to sensor advances such as ‘superspectral’ imaging, the miniaturization of technology, and above all new AI tools to harvest massive data sets for near real-time modeling. To mark 55 years since the first Earth Day, join us during Massachusetts Space Week to hear Swiss and US voices delivering the latest pulse-taking of the planet.
The Planetary Embassy is located at the Swissnex office in Cambridge, MA.
The Planetary Embassy comes alive through a series of pop-up experiences across the Swissnex network. Weaving together research, technology, indigenous knowledge, and the arts, the program invites you—from Climate Week NYC to COP30 in the Amazon—to co-create a “planetary diplomacy” that reaches across species, time scales, and natural forces, helping us negotiate our place within a more-than-human world.
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