Tag Archives: Europe

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, [...]

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).

Call for Papers for the Graduate Conference “Landscapes and Mindscapes”

Submission deadline: 15th of June. Conference date: September 16th to 17th in Naples, Italy Graduate students, recent Ph.D.s, and junior scholars from different fields focusing on any cultural and literary tradition are encouraged to apply. Papers should investigate critical methodologies (geocriticism, ecocriticism, geopoetics, etc.) and different approaches to the relationship between word and space.

Lectures and presentations available on video

READY TO CHANGE: An Experimental Forum on Culture and Social Innovation in Europe and in the Med Area An event organized in Ljubljana (Slovenia), 2–4 December 2010, within the framework of the Sostenuto project “Thinking culture as a factor of economic and social innovation” Direct link to the videos of the lectures and presentations held [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sheep on the move: A trek through Europe to highlight mobile herding

They are good-natured, produce tasty meat, and their wool gets turned into sweaters. Everyone knows so much about sheep. But few people know about the benefits that sheep provide through grazing. As they move from place to place, mobile flocks maintain the ecology, so conserving many threatened plants, animals and insects. The landscapes they create [...]

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