Reposted from CSPA website What actions can we take to design a more sustainable future?’ Thursday, March 10, 2011 from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM (GMT), University Of Brighton, Grand Parade, BN2 OJY Brighton, United Kingdom We are educators, learners, architects, economists, ecologists, activists, filmmakers, photographers, graphic, communication, business, product, fashion, textiles, interior, landscape, systems… Continue reading Designers Accord “Town Hall’ Brighton UK
‘Marbh Chrios – DeadZones’: Softday’s Lovely Weather climate art project in Ireland
Margaret Mc Laughlin, fine artist, has attended and written about an innovative sound work that was performed in Mooney’s boatyard, Killybegs, Co. Donegal, Ireland, on the 16th of October 2010. The work was part of the Donegal County Council’s Lovely Weather Art and Climate Change Public Art Programme (2009-10) . The project was co-curated by… Continue reading ‘Marbh Chrios – DeadZones’: Softday’s Lovely Weather climate art project in Ireland
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
The Sustainable City and the Arts
Update: the deadline for the abstracts submission for the ESA (European Sociological Association) Conference in Geneva has been extended until March 8th 2011. Call for Papers for the Research Stream which will take place in the forthcoming conference of the European Sociological Association from 7. to 10. of Sept. 2011 in Geneva.
Lectures and presentations available on video
READY TO CHANGE: An Experimental Forum on Culture and Social Innovation in Europe and in the Med Area An event organized in Ljubljana (Slovenia), 2–4 December 2010, within the framework of the Sostenuto project “Thinking culture as a factor of economic and social innovation” Direct link to the videos of the lectures and presentations held… Continue reading Lectures and presentations available on video
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
The Art of Ecology – Transdisciplinary Research In Practice
A symposium at the 2011 World Conference of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) SER2011 WORLD CONFERENCE ON ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION – Merida, Mexico – August 21-25, 2011 – Re-establishing the Link between Nature and Culture Please submit abstracts (see link below) indicating the title of the symposium and the name of David Haley, as session… Continue reading The Art of Ecology – Transdisciplinary Research In Practice
Sustainable Practice in Public Art
Chrysalis Arts in collaboration with MIRIAD at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) present a seminar about how artists and commissioners can begin to address the ecological and sustainability issues associated with climate change through their professional practice. With: Inspirational speakers – PASA case studies – Group discussions Seminar – April 15th 2011 – 10am to 4.30pm… Continue reading Sustainable Practice in Public Art
Chain of arguments for the ecological identity of the international language Esperanto (& its organizations)
1. Direct progress with concern to the “interna ideo” (“internal idea”) of Esperanto is the conscious integration of the concept of a “neutral international language” within the framework of the cultures of sustainability & according to the 3 criteria of Peace, Human Rights & Sustainability
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
