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
Category: Conferences
Sensory Worlds: Environment, Value and the Multi-Sensory
7th-9th December, 2011; Edinburgh „What contribution can sensorially-engaged Humanities make to environmental thinking and action?“ The conference „Sensory Worlds“ wants to examine the multi-sensory and will reflect upon the historical, contemporary and possible future relations between the senses (from balance to taste to the haptic and beyond). It aims to allow generously for both formal… Continue reading Sensory Worlds: Environment, Value and the Multi-Sensory
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
Lofoten Whale Festival
Henningsvaer, Norway; August 1st – 6th, 2011 We all know about the beauty of the largest animal on Earth, but still the whale lives under constant existential fear. Often, human beings do not see how important parts of the ecosystem are being threatened because the used medium for environmental communication is not attractive enough. The… Continue reading Lofoten Whale Festival
Symposium: “Animal Ecologies in Visual Culture”
Reposted from: www.antennae.org.uk/Symposium The symposium on October 8th 2011 at University College London proposes an exploration of artistic practices involved with animals and environments. In the recent re-surfacing of the animal in contemporary art, emphasis has been given to mammals, mainly because of the most immediate relational opportunities that these animals offer to us. However, a number… Continue reading Symposium: “Animal Ecologies in Visual Culture”
Congress: “Right to the City”
June 2nd to 5th 2011 in Hamburg “The urban is defined as the place where people walk around, find themselves standing before and inside piles of objects, experience the intertwining of the threads of their activities until they become unrecognizable, entangle situations in such a way that they engender unexpected situations.” (Henri Lefèbvre: La révolution urbaine)… Continue reading Congress: “Right to the City”
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).
Eighth international conference on environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 10-12 January 2012 “This conference aims to develop a holistic view of sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across diverse fields and taking varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of sustainability.” Call for papers open… Continue reading Eighth international conference on environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability
Conference: “People and Nature in Mountains”
21st to 23rd September 2011, Trondheim, Norway Abstract submission deadline: 15th June. This conference will address how archaeology and cultural history can be integrated with long-term and contemporary ecology to understand landscape dynamics and underpin sustainable management and conservation of both cultural heritage and biodiversity in mountain environments. For more information visit: www.ntnu.no/vitenskapsmuseet/peopleandnature.
