COAL PRIZE ART&ENVIRONMENT 2011: APPLY NOW! Description The COAL Art & Environment prize was launched in 2010 by the French association COAL, the coalition for art and sustainable development, to reward a project about the environment by a contemporary artist.
Author: Sacha Kagan
Research Associate at the ISCO - Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (ISKO - Institut für Soziologie und Kulturorganisation), Leuphana University Lueneburg, Sacha Kagan founded the International level of Cultura21, Network for Cultures of Sustainability, as well as the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST). The focus of his research and cultural work lies in the trans-disciplinary field of arts and (un-)sustainability. Doctor in Philosophy (Leuphana University Lueneburg) with a thesis on the subject of culture, the arts and sustainability under the perspective of complexity ; M.A. in Cultural Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam) ; and Graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux (political sciences).
For Cultura21, Sacha is also coordinating the eBooks series, the regular updates on our multi-lingual website, the English section of our webmagazine and the work of our Lueneburg-based interns.
Agents of change and ecological citizenship
New summer school programme from 10 to 22 July 2011 This two weeks workshop: provides an opportunity to explore the many different ways and levels on which we can be or become better `agents of change´ and how we can deepen our understanding of ecological citizenship provides a form for exploring the importance of… Continue reading Agents of change and ecological citizenship
Aesthetic Education and Poetic Imagination: key tools for social and ecological change
Dr. Wolfgang Zumdick Monday 21 February 4 – 7.30 pm (Oxford Brookes Univ. Buckley Bdg, Room BG01) As part of the series: AGENTS OF CHANGE: Ecological Citizenship and The Art of Changing One’s Mind(set). Interdisciplinary Symposia – Seminars – Dialogue Processes, Oxford (UK), 2011
Taking Goethe seriously – stretching our thinking
Allan Kaplan Friday 18 February 11 – 4.30 pm (Oxford Brookes Univ. Buckley Bdg, Room BG01) As part of the series: AGENTS OF CHANGE: Ecological Citizenship and The Art of Changing One’s Mind(set). Interdisciplinary Symposia – Seminars – Dialogue Processes, Oxford (UK), 2011
Re-thinking Sustainability: New directions for Rio+20?
Dr. Maritta Koch-Weser, Lecture-Participatory Seminar Friday 4 February 11 – 4.30 (Oxford Brookes Univ. Buckley Bdg, Room BG01) As part of the series: AGENTS OF CHANGE: Ecological Citizenship and The Art of Changing One’s Mind(set). Interdisciplinary Symposia – Seminars – Dialogue Processes, Oxford (UK), 2011
EDUfashion research report online
After nearly one year of research and discussions the research report of the EDUfashion project “OpenWear. Sustainability, Openness and P2P production in the world of fashion” is downloadable in pdf format. It is released under Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. The report includes contributions by Oleg Koefoed (founding coordinator of Cultura21 Nordic). For… Continue reading EDUfashion research report online
Walking for social and ecological transformation
An article by Sacha Kagan was published on the web-portal Culture360 (the Asia Europe cultural webportal by ASEF), about the first edition of Cultura21’s summer school ASSiST: Click here to read the article. From August 21st to 27th 2010, took place in Gabrovo, a post-industrial city in the center of Bulgaria, the first edition of… Continue reading Walking for social and ecological transformation
New Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability
Vol 1: Lisa Grabe: Das „Projekt Nachhaltigkeit“. Zu den Grenzen des Nachhaltigkeitskonzepts aus kultureller Perspektive, Lüneburg: 2010. Dokument (PDF) The Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability presents findings from inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives in research and practice. The eBooks are published openly online by Cultura21 Institut e.V. in order to support broad dissemination and… Continue reading New Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability
2011 CHENG LONG WETLANDS International Environmental Art Project in Taiwan
Children and Artists Dream of Greener Wetlands Artists from all countries are invited to send a proposal for a site-specific outdoor sculpture installation that will involve working with local elementary school children to create an artwork focused on making the Cheng Long Wetlands a ‘greener’ place where biodiversity can flourish. This year the emphasis will… Continue reading 2011 CHENG LONG WETLANDS International Environmental Art Project in Taiwan
Preventing the Possibilities of Misuse of FPIC in REDD
Indigenous peoples have historically been subjected to repeated loss of basic human rights and dignity. Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) requires authorization by the indigenous people before implementing measures likely to affect them and is an important tool of respecting their rights and dignity. But its application in the specific context of REDD has the… Continue reading Preventing the Possibilities of Misuse of FPIC in REDD
