West Virginia University March the 23rd & 24th, 2012 In almost every issue concerning for example governance, the environment, economic development or healthcare, the lacking ability to communicate, cooperate and compromise obstructs the successful and effective addressing of challenges. This conference aims to present ideas that help build a bridge in order to reduce social… Continue reading Designing for the Divide: A Conference on Community Action Across Lines of Difference
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Land Art Generator Initiative design competition
New York The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) aims at designing public art installations that have an additional benefit of large scale clean energy generation. Each sculpture can continuously distribute clean energy into the electrical grid and thus potentially provide power to thousands of homes. In 2012 the Land Art Generator Initiative holds a design… Continue reading Land Art Generator Initiative design competition
ECOPSYCHOLOGY & NATURAL CHANGE COURSES in 2012
Scotland The purpose of the ecoSelf project is for people to find a sense of ecological identity and based on that to live in ecological balance. In order to find this ecological identity, people have to face the fact that humankind is part of the Earth’s wider ecology, thus stands in constant interdependence with nature.… Continue reading ECOPSYCHOLOGY & NATURAL CHANGE COURSES in 2012
Open Call 2012: Christiania Researcher in Residence (CRIR)
Copenhagen, Denmark The urban Freetown of Christiania exists since forty years now on the disused military base in central Copenhagen. After a long struggle with the Danish state an agreement was reached, after which part of the area has to be bought from the Danish state.
Call for Submissions: VIII International Triennial of Eco-Poster
Ukraine The International Triennial of Eco-Poster is organized for the eighths time by the Ukrainian Association of Graphic Designers to showcase significant achievements on the field of ecological topics of the world design community. The Association of graphic designers «4th Block» was founded in 2002 in order to bring together Ukrainian graphic designers, who deal… Continue reading Call for Submissions: VIII International Triennial of Eco-Poster
Call for proposals: Kunstbroedplaats 2012 – DRIFT
Marknesse, the Netherlands May to December 2012 The former Hydrodynamic Laboratory Waterloopbos hosts in 2012 DRIFT, a contemporary visual art project dealing with transformation. It is the fourth art in nature project of Rerun Productions Foundation, that is a non-profit organization that puts its focus to cultural and social issues in publications and art projects.
Conference: Radius of art
Berlin 8th – 9th of February 2012 The international conference „Radius of art: Creative politicization of the public sphere /Cultural potential forces for social transformation“ takes place in Berlin on the 8th and 9th of February. It puts artistic and cultural projects into the focus of of the political discourse. The purposeful choice of speakers… Continue reading Conference: Radius of art
SurVivArt – Art for the Right to a Good Life
Berlin 7th to 24th of February 2012 From the 7th to the 24th of February the exhibition SurVivArt – Art For the Right to a «Good Life» takes place at the galleries Mikael Andersen and Meinblau in Berlin. International artists from Ethiopia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Thailand and the Czech Republic were invited to do a… Continue reading SurVivArt – Art for the Right to a Good Life
Conference: Probing the Skin
Jena 24th to 26th of April 2013 From April the 24th to April the 26th 2013 the conference “Probing the Skin: Cultural representations of Our Contact Zone” takes place at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. The organizers Prof. Caroline Rosenthal and Prof. Dirk Vanderbeke aks for submission of papers including artistic reflections of skin related themes… Continue reading Conference: Probing the Skin
Review: Encounter with Giovanni Impastato
On the 2nd of November 2011 the Sicilian Giovanni Impastato, who fights against the mafia, was invited in Düsseldorf and Cologne, in order to present his book Resistere a Mafiopoli (Resist Mafiopolis) at the Heinrich-Heine-University and at the Filmhaus Cologne. In this book Giovanni Impastato tells the story of his brother Peppino Impastato to the… Continue reading Review: Encounter with Giovanni Impastato
