Indigenous communities have long been recognised as being particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to the close connection between their livelihoods, culture, spirituality and social systems and their environment. At the same time, however, this deep and long-established relationship with the natural environment affords many indigenous peoples with knowledge that they have… Continue reading Key Issues Guide on Indigenous knowledge and climate change
Category: Literature
Isomorphism
ISOMORPHISM is an online art magazine (based in Romania) that publishes on interaction of contemporary art with a wide range of today’s realities. From political philosophies and civil movements to present day nanotechnology and biotechnology implicated in artistic creation the magazine’s subjects include articles, essays, reviews, presentation of ideas, interviews, events and projects. Link: ISOMORPHISM… Continue reading Isomorphism
ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”
In 2010, ASEF commissioned research to investigate good practices connecting the arts to initiatives tackling environmental sustainability issues in a number of Asian countries. Titled Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues, the research project aimed to carefully document case studies that can not only provide inspiration for networking and collaboration between Asia… Continue reading ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”
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
Plasticities Sciences Arts
“Plasticities Sciences Arts” is an association based in France, operating at the transdisciplinary crossroads of art and science. As expressed by its president, Marc-Williams Debono, “the PSA research group aims at opening new fields of interaction between sciences, arts and humanities. The group has its origins in 1994 when it established a Transdisciplinary network of… Continue reading Plasticities Sciences Arts
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
Publication: Music and Arts in Action (MAiA)
The first special issue of Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) presents the proceedings of a 2009 conference on ‘Music and Migration’, which was part of the 3-year research project ‘Diaspora as Social and Cultural Practice: A Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and Africa’. The project was based at the Universities of Southampton and… Continue reading Publication: Music and Arts in Action (MAiA)
Publication: EUROPE-CHINA CULTURAL COMPASS
Orientation for Cultural Cooperation Between China and Europe Free download link at the end of this post ! As a result of the project EUROPE-CHINA CULTURAL COMPASS, a publication is now available, addressing the question of intercultural communication and cooperation. In the framework of an ongoing dialogue between China and Europe, the project was generated… Continue reading Publication: EUROPE-CHINA CULTURAL COMPASS
Artists & Environmental Change: The Elusive Power of Contemporary Art
Too Shallow for Diving: the 21st Century Is Treading Water The “Land“ artists in the 1970s as well as artists like Joseph Beuys and Agnes Denes in the 1980s paved the way for the ecological artists today and for art to act as an agent for social change. Today environmental art includes various approaches and… Continue reading Artists & Environmental Change: The Elusive Power of Contemporary Art
Emergence: The Document!
Emergence: The Document! Creative industries play an important role in the process of developing a sustainable future for the planet, but often there is a lack of ideas and practical solutions on the way to this more sustainable future. The partnership project between Volcano and Cynnal Cymru-Sustain Wales supported by Arts Council Wales and British… Continue reading Emergence: The Document!
