Sustainability: Enabling a Transdisciplinary Approach 29th February – 2nd March 2012 – Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany The conference focuses on three leading questions: 1. What insights about the role of transdisciplinarity for sustainability transitions have we gained over the last 10 years? 2. What gaps in research still remain? 3. How can we fill these… Continue reading Leuphana Sustainability Summit – Call for Papers
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Radius of Art Conference
Creative politicization of the public sphere – Cultural potential forces for social transformation February 8th and 9th 2012 – Heinrich Böll Foundation, Schumannstr. 8, Berlin The registration for the international conference „radius of art“ by Heinrich Boell Foundation has been opened: The number of places is very limited, and a selection process will take place. … Continue reading Radius of Art Conference
PICNIC Festival 2011
September 14th-16th, Amsterdam “PICNIC Festival is an annual three-day event that blurs the lines between creativity, science, technology and business to explore new solutions in the spirit of co- creation. This year’s theme is Urban Futures, with a focus on sustainability, infrastructure, society, design and media. PICNIC Festival 2011 takes place from 14 to 16… Continue reading PICNIC Festival 2011
SurVivArt – Arts for the Right to a Good Life
The Heinrich Böll Stiftung has started yet another interesting project referring to arts and sustainability. Artists from six mainly southern countries are invited to discuss the meaning of the right to a good life. Based on the fact that our daily lives and our ways of achieving a “good life” always influence the environment in… Continue reading SurVivArt – Arts for the Right to a Good Life
Balance Unbalance 2011
Montreal, Canada; November 4th and 5th, 2011 Environmental problems are a challenge for all disciplines, this is not a remarkable statement anymore. But bringing together people from the various “little worlds” and setting up a base for transdisciplinary communication still is a difficult mission. The “Balance Unbalance Conference 2011” is trying to manage a conference… Continue reading Balance Unbalance 2011
The 1st Cultura21 Forum in Germany
Cultura21 e.V. is happy to announce the first „Cultura21 Forum“ in Germany: The Cultivation of Ecology/-ies: gardens and complexity in rural and urban areas September 23rd to 25th, 2011 – “Studio Kunst und Landschaft” in Hude (aprox. 13 km from Oldenburg) The complete program can be downloaded as a PDF file: Cultura21Forum_Program(ENG) modified recently!… Continue reading The 1st Cultura21 Forum in Germany
Festival “Über Lebenskunst”
Perspectives for a sustainable way of living – “Haus der Kulturen der Welt” and in the city of Berlin, 17th to 21st August, 2011. Once again, Berlin is going to be the host of a very interesting festival. “Über Lebenskunst” (German play on words: “about the art of living” or “The Art of Survival”) will… Continue reading Festival “Über Lebenskunst”
Reading of the play “Sila”
Reposted from: www.sustainablepractice.org “Sila” is the name of a play written by Chantal Bilodeau. The titel comes from an Inuit word for the breath of life, the primary component of everything that exists. The play is about an ice scientist, an Inuit activist, an officer for the Marine Communications and Traffic Services and a polar… Continue reading Reading of the play “Sila”
UK Green Film Festival
The UK Green Film Festival is a not-for-profit, national film festival showcasing films and filmmakers engaging with environmental and climate change themes that challenge, inspire, educate and entertain. Featured films include: The Age of Stupid, Vanishing of the Bees, Fields of FuelGasLand, With Landscape in Mind, Plastic Planet, Planeat, and The Pipe. Films will be… Continue reading UK Green Film Festival
Meeting about ECoC Cities and Culture of Sustainability
On the 16th of May 2011, in Berlin, Germany, a meeting will take place, bringing European scholars and professionals together to brainstorm and discuss culture, sustainability and the attributes, requirements and traits of the so called ECoC Cities (European Capitals of Culture).
