Title: Fostering the transition toward cultures of sustainability - a policy debateWhich institutional frameworks, support structures, policy processes and funding designs may foster, rather than hinder or limit, art's transformative potential toward cultures of sustainability? How to retain subversive imagination, and openness for transformations, and avoid instrumentalization? How to genuinely integrate across policy borders and beyond linear planning? How to support e.g. ecological artists and foster cultural diversity?
About the speakers:Jordi Pascual is the founding coordinator of the Committee on culture of United Cities (the world organisation of cities), whose main aim is the development of Agenda 21 for culture (
http://www.agenda21culture.net). He holds degrees in Philosophy (1992) and Geography (1997). He has written on cultural policies, governance and sustainable development. He teaches cultural policies and management at the Open University of Catalonia - UOC and has been member of the Jury of the European Capital of Culture for 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2016. He develops a career in the cross-roads of management, research and activism.
Adrienne Goehler is a psychologist by training and a former President of the Fine Arts University in Hamburg, she later served as a senator for science, research and culture in the Berlin municipality. From 2002 until 2006 she was curator of the Berlin culture fonds. In 2007 she initiated and curated “art goes Heiligendamm”, a cultural intervention during the G8 summit in Heiligendamm. Since 2010 the exhibition “examples to follow” that Goehler curated is touring in Germany and abroad.
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http://www.z-ne.infoDan Baron is a theatre director and theatre teachers-educator, a community art practitioner, a policy lobbyist and an environmental and social activist. He is international project director and responsible for teacher-education in arts education at the Institute of Transformance: Culture & Education (Belem, Brazil). Dan is currently working closely with the rural trade union and Pedagogy of the Land in Brazil, the Living Culture movement in Latin America, and the Culture, Education and Communication Secretariat within the Federal Government of Brazil. His former policy-related positions included: Chair of the World Alliance for Arts Education, President of IDEA (International Drama/Theatre and Education Association), Member of the International Council of the World Social Forum (WSF), and Member of the UNESCO Scientific Committee for the 2010 UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education.
Link to Dan Baron's publication
Harvest in Times of Drought – cultivating pedagogies of life for sustainable communities, freely downloadable here:
http://www.cultura21.net/literature/publications/publication-harvest-in-times-of-droughtAbout the moderator:Dr. Nancy Duxbury is Senior Researcher and Co-coordinator of the 'Cities, Cultures, and Architecture' research group at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Her research examines culture and sustainability, and focuses on cultural planning practices and strategies to integrate cultural considerations within urban sustainability initiatives. She is also an Adjunct Professor of the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada.