a design approach for scaling up grassroots movements towards sustainability 12th volume in the Cultura21 eBooks series on culture and sustainability – by Nicholas Torretta Given the growing world-wide urbanization and the need for achieving a sustainable way of living, there is an urgent need for developing possibilities sustainable ways of urban living. This study… Continue reading Cultura21 eBook Vol. 12: A Journey Through Alternative Ways of Living:
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The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project Book and eBook now Available
The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project (2012) is now available as free pdf, as paperback at Amazon US / UK and as e-book at Kindle Store. Erik Sjödin is an artist and researcher based in Stockholm and Bergen. His practice explores interdependencies and interrelationships between humans and non-humans as well as questions of being and… Continue reading The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project Book and eBook now Available
An Orange County Almanac, and other essays
Cultura21, in association with WOLFoundation, has the pleasure to announce its 7th Volume in the Cultura21 eBooks series on Culture and Sustainability: edited by J. Zammit-Lucia We need new ways of thinking about issues that affect how we interact with our environment. The authors whose work is collected here make some powerful calls for change.… Continue reading An Orange County Almanac, and other essays
eBook: Promoting natural materials
This free eBook, edited by Päivi Simi and Outi Toumela, is the main publication of the long term project of the same title, taking place in Southern Finland and Estonia from 2009 to 2012. The focus of the project lies in raising awareness and spreading knowledge on the use of healthier materials as well as… Continue reading eBook: Promoting natural materials
Cultura21 eBook Vol. 6: Sustainable Fashion
New Approaches within the Fashion Industries Our 6th volume in the Cultura21 eBooks series – by Rana Öztürk This eBook analyzes current developments in the fashion industries related to the debate on the Cultural and Creative Industries. The author’s approach includes the particularities of the debate about social, economic, aesthetic and anthropological aspects and, lastly,… Continue reading Cultura21 eBook Vol. 6: Sustainable Fashion
Two essays published at the Heinrich Boell Foundation
In parallel to the “Radius of Art” conference, the Heinrich Boell Foundation published 2 essays dealing with art and cultural transformations toward sustainability. Both essays can be obtained (in print versions) from the foundation and (in electronic PDF versions) from the website of the foundation: – Sacha Kagan. Toward Global (Environ)Mental Change: Transformative Art and… Continue reading Two essays published at the Heinrich Boell Foundation
New eBook available
The eBook „Negatives Menschenbild und Separationsdenken in der modernen Gesellschaft“ by Davide Brocchi is now available for download as PDF file. The author deals with the source and the effect of the negative image of humanity and refers therefore to advocates of the negative image of humanity like Niccoló Macchiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. The thought… Continue reading New eBook available
How-to guides for arts organizations to reduce carbon footprint
Julie’s Bicycle (UK) regularly releases online publications, including a recent one developed with the Mayor of London and Frieze Art Fair, on the visual arts. This is one of a series of ‘how to’ guides across artforms. Starting with work in 2007 that looked at the Greenhouse Gas emissions of the UK Music Industry, Julie’s… Continue reading How-to guides for arts organizations to reduce carbon footprint
Vol. 3 in the Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability
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 to stimulate further debates in civil society and further action-research in the field. The city today is increasingly conceptualized… Continue reading Vol. 3 in the Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability
Vol. 2 in the Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability
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 to stimulate further debates in civil society and further action-research in the field. Karamoja, a semi-arid region located north-east… Continue reading Vol. 2 in the Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability
