Tag Archives: Asia

Call for Applications: Default 13

Art, Cities and Regeneration. Asia – Europe. Masterclass in residence – Lecce, Italy, 17th -26th September 2013 Eighteen creatives and artists (9 from Asia and 9 from Europe), selected through an international open call, will be given the opportunity to discuss and try to answer the question “What is next in art, cities and regeneration?”, [...]

18th ASEF University on Sustainable Consumption

Call for participants – Tartu, Estonia, from 18 August to 1 September Deadline of the call: April 23rd already ! The 18th ASEF University (AU18), themed “Conscious Consumers for Environmental Sustainability”, will take place in Tartu, Estonia, from 18th August – 1st September. This two-week programme will gather up to 46 promising (under-) graduate students, [...]

ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”

In 2010, ASEF commissioned research to investigate good practices connecting the arts to initiatives tackling environmental sustainability issues in a number of Asian countries. Titled Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues,  the research project aimed to carefully document case studies that can not only provide inspiration for networking and collaboration between Asia [...]

Everything Forever Now: eco-design exhibition

Bangkok, until March 18, 2012 The British Council in Bangkok in collaboration with the Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) presents the exhibition “Everything Forever Now: Designs for a sustainable future”, a showcase of new approaches and innovations in sustainable design by contemporary designers and architects. More information on Culture360.org: Click here

Between art and environment: Case studies from Thailand, Malaysia and India

The case studies are part of an Asia-Europe Foundation commissioned research project entitled “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”. Thailand: In Doi Saket, an artists’ residency programme brings together local communities and artists to reflect on diverse facets of everyday life to gain a more open perspective about their positions in the [...]

ASEF: Publication of the Connect2Culture dossier

  Arts. Environment. Sustainability. How can Culture Make a Difference? There is a growing awareness that culture and the arts can help dealing with global challenges by means of alternative, creative approaches to pressing problems. Therefore society as well as governmental stakeholders start to see culture as an important value for sustainable development, environment, education, [...]

Review of the Cultura21 event “Can Artists Change China?”

On June 16th, Cultura21 – together with partners – invited panelists with broad experience and knowledge concerning the art sector and the human rights situation in China for a discussion around the arrest of Ai Weiwei. The event was attended by more than a hundred people of all ages. See also: Press articles on the [...]

IN CONTEXT: PUBLIC.ART.ECOLOGY II

Open Studio Day: 1st April 2011; Time: 6:00 pm onwards; Venue: KHOJ Studios and Select CITYWALK, Saket (India) Projects on view: KHOJ Court by Ackroyd & Harvey (UK); My Love Is An Icy Cold Fever by Navin Thomas (India); Unpacking Social Networks by Partik Sagar (India); Econnect+ Love Motel for Insects by Ecohaven Project+ Brandon [...]

JALAN JATI (Teak Road) Or the Secret Lives of Forest Products

A Contemporary Art & Ecology Exhibition on Tropical Forests, Wood & Humans, Using DNA Timber Tracking Technology By the Migrant Ecologies Project, Singapore The project traces the “memories” of a teak bed purchased in 21 century Singapore back to the site in the region from which the teak tree originated with the help of DNA [...]

Chiang Mai Now!

Exhibition presenting Chiang Mai through visions of contemporary cultures April 7th – June 19th, 2011 – 9th Floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand Chiang Mai Now! is the exhibition presenting Chiang Mai through contemporary visions. Curated by Angkrit Ajchariyasophon, the exhibition puts forward unique perspectives of 12 artists and contemporary cultural activists. Chiang Mai [...]

Art Talks @ The Reading Room

Reposted from the website of Khoj International Artists’ Association (India) In Context:public.art.ecology Art Talks @ The Reading Room D-42 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024 – Friday, 18th March 2011, 5:00 pm- 6:30 pm A discussion  on the intersection of  Art,Ecology and Science by Biologist & Physicist Dr. Mukund Thattai and  Philosopher & Physicist Dr. Sundar [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Creating Cities: Culture, Space and Sustainability

The conference Creating Cities: Culture, Space and Sustainability, which will take place from 25 to 27 February 2010, investigates the forces that shape the conditions of urban development and the creation of cities in comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. In recent years, the notion of the „creative city“ has become a guiding framework for thinking about [...]

Asia-Europe Dialogue on Arts, Culture and Climate Change

October 9th-12th 2008: Asia-Europe Dialogue on Arts, Culture and Climate Change in Beijing, by the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF), organized with the assistance of Cultura21. For more information, see this website