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
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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
Schumacher College – courses on Creativity and Design
Join Schumacher College (UK) for residential short course and postgraduate programmes in art and ecology, creative engagement, ecological design, writing and storytelling for personal and social transformation. Short courses for 2014 Dark Mountain – New Stories at the Cliff Edge, 23 – 27 June With Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine Radical creative thinking from the… Continue reading Schumacher College – courses on Creativity and Design
Imagining »Earth«
Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ Conference, May 29 – 31 2014, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany To call upon the ›whole Earth‹ has become a common way to evoke significance. Claiming the ›global‹ importance of a problem, a place or a practice aims for the mobilization of attention and resources that exceed… Continue reading Imagining »Earth«
Cultures of Sustainability in the Age of Climate Crisis
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Telemark University College Bø, May 13.-15. (Tue-Thu), 2014 The aim of the COST Action IS1007 meeting is to provide new perspectives and practical examples of the transformative role of culture for a sustainable future. The symposium will investigate the many ways of integrating perspectives on cultural change, social learning, experience-based training, innovation… Continue reading Cultures of Sustainability in the Age of Climate Crisis
Art for the Anthropocene Era
by Eleanor Heartney Reposted from www.artinamericamagazine.com […] It can be hard to shake a sense of imminent eco-doom. Or is there room for “dark optimism,” as the eco-themed initiative Expo 1: New York at MoMA PS1, in Queens, last summer styled it? The UN report contains recommendations for international emissions caps and other cooperative measures,… Continue reading Art for the Anthropocene Era
OPEN CALL: ARTLEAKS GAZETTE NO.2
(An)Other Art World(s)? Imagination Beyond Fiction The first issue of the ArtLeaks Gazette was aimed at bringing critical awareness of the challenges and obstacles of the contemporary art system. While they considered this a necessary initial step in enacting meaningful transformations of this system, ArtLeaks now feels the need to move beyond exposure and breaking the… Continue reading OPEN CALL: ARTLEAKS GAZETTE NO.2
PhD research programme in the Arts and Humanities
The Neue Galerie Luzern–Swiss Academic Association (NGL–SAA) together with the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, UK, has created a new PhD program. Embedded in the quality of the educational work achieved by the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, and the objective to promote knowledge of and deep engagement with all aspects of the arts, society… Continue reading PhD research programme in the Arts and Humanities
SUMMER SCHOOL “LEARNING FROM THE SOUTH: TOWARDS INTERCULTURAL TRANSLATIONS”
CURIA, PORTUGAL, JUNE 30TH – JULY 8TH, 2014 This summer school, living up to the motto “learning from the south and with the south”, seeks to provide clues about the possibilities of social political and institutional transformation from innovations taking place in various contexts of the global south. The international summer school is part of… Continue reading SUMMER SCHOOL “LEARNING FROM THE SOUTH: TOWARDS INTERCULTURAL TRANSLATIONS”
