The Biospheric Project, Urban farm, laboratory, research centre, Manchester International Festival, UK 4 – 21 July 2013, This summer, MIF and the Biospheric Foundation will be opening the doors to The Biospheric Project for the first time to share the transformation of a post industrial building into a thriving, green growing space and offer a… Continue reading How can we continue to put food on our tables?
Category: Academic Research
Call for Papers : “Where is our ecological art history?
April 10-12, 2014 : 40th Anniversary, Annual AAH Conference & Bookfair, Royal College of Art, London Deadline for proposals : November 11th 2013 The discipline of art history has proved itself able to look various crises of culture in the face and open up the discipline to ideological struggles and debates. These debates have involved its… Continue reading Call for Papers : “Where is our ecological art history?
Enlivenment. Towards a fundamental shift in the concepts of nature, culture and politics
A new publication in the Ecology Series at Heinrich Boell Foundation, by Andreas Weber “People often call for “changing the system” and seek to reform the “free market” approach that turns everything, including life itself, into a commodity. But it is impossible to alter our prevailing “operating system” for economics, politics and culture if the… Continue reading Enlivenment. Towards a fundamental shift in the concepts of nature, culture and politics
Td Summer School 2013: Transdisciplinary Research at the Science | Society Interface
“Td Summer School 2013: Transdisciplinary Research at the Science | Society Interface” will be held at Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany, from September 1 – 10, 2013. The Td Summer School 2013 offers a “Td Training Module” (Sep., 1-6) and a Special Training Module in “Constellation Analysis” (Sep., 9-10) in cooperation with the Center for Technology… Continue reading Td Summer School 2013: Transdisciplinary Research at the Science | Society Interface
Artists, Art Communities and Creative Initiatives in the Urban Spaces of Russia and Europe
Open Interdisciplinary Seminar series “Scientific Environment”, 6th meeting of the 2013 spring session May 14th 2013, Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University (Russia), ul. Smolnogo 1/3, entrance 9, room 229, 18:00 Speakers: Sacha Kagan (Leuphana University Lueneburg, and Cultura21): “Creative cities and the challenge of sustainability” Nikita Basov and Anisya Khokhlova (St. Petersburg State University,… Continue reading Artists, Art Communities and Creative Initiatives in the Urban Spaces of Russia and Europe
New Directions in Social Ecology: From Climate Action to Housing Justice
San Francisco (USA), June 12th – 22nd 2013 Each year, the Institute for Social Ecology hosts intensive seminars for students, activists, and community leaders to come together to explore sets of dynamic and urgent social and ecological issues. They are partnering with the California Institute for Integral Studies based in the SOMA district. Classes will… Continue reading New Directions in Social Ecology: From Climate Action to Housing Justice
Art, Environment, Sustainability – Call for articles
For an upcoming issue of Antennae Submission Deadline: 1st of September 2013 “At the forefront of today’s social issues are questions related to the human relationship to nature and the environment, the meaning of a sustainable future and the relationship of environmentalism to modernity and today’s economic structures. While the sciences have, until recently, dominated… Continue reading Art, Environment, Sustainability – Call for articles
Art and biodiversity: sustainable art ?
Plastik, a bi-lingual (French-English) online journal on art & science published at Institut Acte (CNRS and Université Paris 1 Sorbonne), is announcing the following open call for articles for its upcoming 4th issue on “Art and biodiversity: sustainable art?” (deadline: June 15, 2013 – the call is also available in French language here): “Interest in ecology… Continue reading Art and biodiversity: sustainable art ?
Call for participation in survey on soil and art
If you have used earth materially or symbolically in your creative practice, or in some way addressed the value, function, or meaning of soil in your art, you are cordially invited to take part in an online survey about soil and art. “Although the arts play a critical role in sustainability discourses, the actual opinions, knowledge and practices… Continue reading Call for participation in survey on soil and art
Call for Papers – Acoustic Space No. 12: ART OF RESILIENCE
Riga’s Center for New Media Culture RIXC is welcoming submissions – articles, conceptual and artistic texts, research papers and visual contributions – from artists, theorists, scientists, researchers who are engaged with issues of social and ecological sustainability, and who are interested in a deeper understanding of technology, for the next Acoustic Space (Volume No. 12),… Continue reading Call for Papers – Acoustic Space No. 12: ART OF RESILIENCE
