Tag: art

Agents of change and ecological citizenship

New summer school programme from 10 to 22 July 2011   This two weeks workshop: provides an opportunity to explore the many different ways and  levels on which we can be or become better `agents of change´ and how we can  deepen our understanding of ecological citizenship provides a form for exploring the importance of… Continue reading Agents of change and ecological citizenship

Walking for social and ecological transformation

An article by  Sacha Kagan was published on the web-portal Culture360 (the Asia Europe cultural webportal by ASEF),  about the first edition of Cultura21’s summer school ASSiST: Click here to read the article. From August 21st to 27th 2010, took place in Gabrovo, a post-industrial city in the center of Bulgaria, the first edition of… Continue reading Walking for social and ecological transformation

CALL FOR PAPERS (EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF AESTHETICS)

The Ministry of Culture of Spain, in collaboration with the Department of Aesthetics and Art Theory of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid is currently preparing a European Congress of Aesthetics that will take place at the Prado Museum (Madrid) between the 10th and the 12th of November 2010. The title of the congress will be:… Continue reading CALL FOR PAPERS (EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF AESTHETICS)

Sustainable creative cities report is online

Please find below a weblink and direct link to a PDF file, released by the ASEF (Asia Europe Foundation) about the publication, today, of the short report from a workshop on “sustainable creative cities” organized as part of the ASEF Conference alongside the 8th Asia-Europe Summit of Heads of States in early October. We are… Continue reading Sustainable creative cities report is online

eBooklet on Walking for download in PDF format

Walking in life, art and science : a few examples (Sacha Kagan, Ed., 2010):  eBooklet in PDF format to download HERE The booklet contains: * an introductory article about the history and art history of walking in Europe * an article introducing German “Promenadologie” * an article about one postcolonial work of HMJokinen in Hamburg… Continue reading eBooklet on Walking for download in PDF format

Staging Sustainability – Arts, Community, Culture, Environment

How can we produce art that reflects, celebrates, critiques and advances the cultural life of our community without contributing to the destruction of the setting that inspires these artistic endeavours ? The Faculty of Fine Arts at York University (Toronto – Canada) invites proposals for papers for Staging Sustainability: Arts, Community, Culture, Environment, a conference… Continue reading Staging Sustainability – Arts, Community, Culture, Environment

TAKING PART conference

Goldsmiths University of London & Southbank Centre Friday 29th and Saturday 30th October 2010 CALL for PAPERS, PROVOCATIONS, PERFORMANCES “Inequality is divisive. It polarises societies, it divides regions within countries, and it carves up the world between rich and poor”1. It is also one of the reasons for our current lack of genuine civic and… Continue reading TAKING PART conference

Aesthetics, Art, and Politics

“Aesthetics, Art, and Politics,” 6-7.5.2010, University of Helsinki The Finnish Society for Aesthetics together with the research project Artification and its Impact on Art (www.artification.fi) will arrange a two-day seminar on the theme “Aesthetics, Art, and Politics” from the 6th of May to the 7th of May 2010 at the University of Helsinki. The keynote speaker of the… Continue reading Aesthetics, Art, and Politics