International City Link Congress Cities, Culture and Sustainability September 12th 2014 in Hamburg / Germany. In a changing world of work and confronted with the consequences of climate and demographic changes, policies that strengthen social coherence are needed. On the background of these changes self-organised initiatives are emerging in many cities that already implement sustainable policies on a project level. Within the frame… Continue reading Congress: Cities, Culture and Sustainability
Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice
Repost. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23- 27, 2015 University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE (INCLUDING SUBMISSIONS PAGE) WILL BE LIVE IN SEPTEMBER, 2014: www.uidaho.edu/asle In Notes from Underground (1864), Dostoyevsky explores relations between modernity and its discontents at an important historical conjuncture: the novella’s unnamed, unpleasant… Continue reading Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice
Cologne – Tag des Guten Lebens “Day of the Good Life”
This Sunday, the streets of Cologne-Ehrenfeld will belong only to its residents. Without traffic and lots of free space for encounters and action. “Tell everyone, talk to your neighbours, this day will be what we make of it and if all of us participate!” There will be no cars in the district of Cologne-Ehrenfeld (cf.… Continue reading Cologne – Tag des Guten Lebens “Day of the Good Life”
Cultura21 eBook Vol. 12: A Journey Through Alternative Ways of Living:
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:
Report and Resources – GALA Workshop on green issues for the sustainable support of cultural mobility, Berlin (Germany), 12-13 March 2014
Julie’s Bicycle and DutchCulture ¦ TransArtists have developed a partnership dedicated to promoting environmental sustainability and how that can be challenged in practical, ethical, and artistic ways, across arts’ and cultural communities across Europe. Based on the concept of a ‘knowledge alliance’ they have been building a collaborative project with cultural organizations and artists all over Europe and Georgia.… Continue reading Report and Resources – GALA Workshop on green issues for the sustainable support of cultural mobility, Berlin (Germany), 12-13 March 2014
ARTEMOCC 2015 : 1st ARTEM Organizational Creativity International Conference
26-27 March, 2015 – Nancy (France) “Rethinking Paths on Creativity and Sustainability” UPDATE: Deadline extended to November 30th 2014! ARTEM Organizational Creativity International Conference seeks to rethink paths on creativity to move organizations towards sustainability. The objective of this international conference is to bring together academics, managers, professionals and doctoral students in areas such as engineering, arts… Continue reading ARTEMOCC 2015 : 1st ARTEM Organizational Creativity International Conference
NATURE AS PRACTICE
Conversations Across Art, Science, Ecology and Everyday Life. NUS Museum – Friday 1st & Sunday 3rd August Singapore Botanic Gardens – Saturday 2nd August 2014 Nature as Practice is a six session interdisciplinary symposium collaboration between the School of Art Design and Media (ADM) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum… Continue reading NATURE AS PRACTICE
Call for Contributions: RACKET! Art in Pursuit of Peace and Quiet
“RACKET! Art in Pursuit of Peace and Quiet” is a forthcoming exhibition and book that explores excessive sound, a rampant form of environmental pollution. Artists are invited to address the symptoms of noise pollution or propose its remediation. Solutions, observations, reflections, defenses, offenses, anti-dotes are welcome.
Cultures of Sustainability in the Age of Climate Crisis
The four keynote speeches from the international conference “Cultures of Sustainability in the Age of Climate Crisis” held at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Telemark University College in Bø, May 13.-15. (Tue-Thu), 2014, are now available online as video recordings: Watch the speeches This is a follow-up post from https://www.cultura21.net/activities/conferences/cultures-of-sustainability-in-the-age-of-climate-crisis/
Call for Articles: Performing Ethos
Performing Ethos: ‘Performing Ecos’ (special themed issue of Performing Ethos). Guest editors: Bronwyn Preece (Independent Artist/Scholar), Jess Allen (University of Manchester) and Stephen Bottoms (University of Manchester) Global climate change is catalysing an examination of ecological ethics. Humanity’s continuing failure to respond meaningfully to the impending environmental crisis has been characterized by philosopher Stephen M. Gardiner as… Continue reading Call for Articles: Performing Ethos
