Tag: sustainability

Aesthetic Education and Poetic Imagination: key tools for social and ecological change

Dr. Wolfgang Zumdick Monday 21 February    4 – 7.30 pm  (Oxford Brookes Univ. Buckley Bdg, Room BG01) As part of the series: AGENTS OF CHANGE: Ecological Citizenship and The Art of Changing One’s Mind(set). Interdisciplinary Symposia – Seminars – Dialogue Processes, Oxford (UK), 2011

EDUfashion research report online

After nearly one year of research and discussions the research report of the EDUfashion project “OpenWear. Sustainability, Openness and P2P production in the world of fashion” is downloadable in pdf format. It is released under Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. The report includes contributions by Oleg Koefoed (founding coordinator of Cultura21 Nordic). For… Continue reading EDUfashion research report online

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

New Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability

Vol 1: Lisa Grabe: Das „Projekt Nachhaltigkeit“. Zu den Grenzen des Nachhaltigkeitskonzepts aus kultureller Perspektive, Lüneburg: 2010. Dokument (PDF) 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… Continue reading New Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability

Energetics and Informatics: the 7th ADA Symposium

The 7th ADA Network Symposium examines the relationship between energy and information in media arts. We ask how sustainable is the technology that supports media art? What new forms of practice are developing at the intersection of energy conservation and production, technology, and art? And how can we balance a global arts practice with the… Continue reading Energetics and Informatics: the 7th ADA Symposium

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

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