Aesthetic Education and Poetic Imagination: key tools for social and ecological change

Dr. Wolfgang Zumdick Monday 21 February    4 – 7.30 pm  (Oxford Brookes Univ. Buckley Bdg, Room BG01) As part of the series: AGENTS OF CHANGE: Ecological Citizenship and The Art of Changing One’s Mind(set). Interdisciplinary Symposia – Seminars – Dialogue Processes, Oxford (UK), 2011

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… Continue reading EDUfashion research report online

Walking for social and ecological transformation

An article by  Sacha Kagan was published on the web-portal Culture360 (the Asia Europe cultural webportal by ASEF),  about the first edition of Cultura21’s summer school ASSiST: Click here to read the article. From August 21st to 27th 2010, took place in Gabrovo, a post-industrial city in the center of Bulgaria, the first edition of… Continue reading Walking for social and ecological transformation

New Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability

Vol 1: Lisa Grabe: Das „Projekt Nachhaltigkeit“. Zu den Grenzen des Nachhaltigkeitskonzepts aus kultureller Perspektive, Lüneburg: 2010. Dokument (PDF) The Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability presents findings from inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives in research and practice. The eBooks are published openly online by Cultura21 Institut e.V. in order to support broad dissemination and… Continue reading New Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability

2011 CHENG LONG WETLANDS International Environmental Art Project in Taiwan

Children and Artists Dream of Greener Wetlands Artists from all countries are invited to send a proposal for a site-specific outdoor sculpture installation that will involve working with local elementary school children to create an artwork focused on making the Cheng Long Wetlands a ‘greener’ place where biodiversity can flourish. This year the emphasis will… Continue reading 2011 CHENG LONG WETLANDS International Environmental Art Project in Taiwan

Preventing the Possibilities of Misuse of FPIC in REDD

Indigenous peoples have historically been subjected to repeated loss of basic human rights and dignity. Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) requires authorization by the indigenous people before implementing measures likely to affect them and is an important tool of respecting their rights and dignity. But its application in the specific context of REDD has the… Continue reading Preventing the Possibilities of Misuse of FPIC in REDD

Energetics and Informatics: the 7th ADA Symposium

The 7th ADA Network Symposium examines the relationship between energy and information in media arts. We ask how sustainable is the technology that supports media art? What new forms of practice are developing at the intersection of energy conservation and production, technology, and art? And how can we balance a global arts practice with the… Continue reading Energetics and Informatics: the 7th ADA Symposium