Harvest in Times of Drought – cultivating pedagogies of life for sustainable communities Voices of the country In the following lines, the book Harvest in Times of Drought is presented and offered for download (please find the download link at the bottom of the post). This publication is about creative education in Brasil that can… Continue reading Publication: Harvest in Times of Drought
Category: Literature
ASEF: Publication of the Connect2Culture dossier
Arts. Environment. Sustainability. How can Culture Make a Difference? There is a growing awareness that culture and the arts can help dealing with global challenges by means of alternative, creative approaches to pressing problems. Therefore society as well as governmental stakeholders start to see culture as an important value for sustainable development, environment, education,… Continue reading ASEF: Publication of the Connect2Culture dossier
Book launch – “The Book of Ice”
at EYEBEAM – 540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Aves) New York City – Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 6:00-9:00 pm free entry The Book of Ice – in a few days, this part of a graphic design project will be published in New York by its author Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky.… Continue reading Book launch – “The Book of Ice”
Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity
Upcoming book publication Sacha Kagan. Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2011. Will be available in July 2011, ca. 476 p., ca. 39,80 € – ISBN 978-3-8376-1803-7 The publication proposes an understanding of “culture(s) of sustainability”, “aesthetics of sustainability” and “art and sustainability”, based on an in-depth theoretical… Continue reading Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity
Societies, Systems and Swarms
A publication is now available online, from the “2nd Sustainable Summer School” that took place in Jüchen (Germany) in September 2010 (cf. our earlier post about the event). The theme of that summer school was “Societies, Systems and Swarms”. Download the PDF file: Click here
Culture and Sustainable Communities
NEW PUBLICATION: Special Double Issue of Culture and Local Governance on “Culture and Sustainable Communities” http://oa.uottawa.ca/journals/clg-cgl Vol. 3, No. 1-2 Guest editors: Nancy Duxbury, Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal; M. Sharon Jeannotte, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa, Canada The wide-spread shift to a sustainability paradigm for city planning makes this… Continue reading Culture and Sustainable Communities
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
Networking the arts to save the Earth
Cathy Fitzgerald, film-maker and author of ecoartnotebook.com, has completed a research paper on the “sometimes under-utilised potential of online art and ecology networks“: Online social networks are a recent global phenomenon of the last five years. This paper considers the value and under-realised potential of online social networks that connect cultural practitioners and organisations who… Continue reading Networking the arts to save the Earth
Extended workshop report now released on Sustainable Creative Cities: the role of the arts in globalised urban contexts
an extended report from the workshop organized at the ASEF CCS4 Conference (ASEM8 Summit) The extended report (59 pages) is now available: click here for download (PDF file). This longer report contains detailed discussions from the workshop exchanges, as well as several ‘good practice’ cases and further reflections elaborated by workshop participants in the couple… Continue reading Extended workshop report now released on Sustainable Creative Cities: the role of the arts in globalised urban contexts
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
