Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures / Sacha Kagan, Volker Kirchberg (eds.)

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Series: Higher education for sustainability ; 3Publication details: Frankfurt am Main : VAS, cop. 2008Description: 570 pISBN:

9783888644405

Summary: The search for sustainable futures calls forward a cultural change process. The cultural dimension of (un)sustainability stands at the core of the global crisis, pointing at the roots of unsustainable development and exploring alternatives. While sustainability offers an inspiring research field for artists and other cultural actors, the arts and other cultural sectors constitute experimental, reflexive and transformative fields for the advancement of sustainability. This book explores the manifold dimensions of that new mutual frontier: The twenty-one selected texts offer interdisciplinary insights from sociology, economics, phenomenology and philosophy, and from artists actively contributing to the search process of sustainability. The twenty-one authors share their experiences from Europe, Asia, North and Central America and Africa. Cultural actors and artists around the world as well as civil society organizations and institutional actors will find significant insights for their work in this book. This book also sets a landmark for a new research approach that will interest students,researchers and educators in the fields of arts and culture (including fashion and creative industries), as well as in the fields of sustainability, peace studies, ecology, systems thinking, globalization and development. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00609	1	Available		1900131238

Gatekeeper: a foreword / Günther Bachmann -- Introduction. Sustainability as a new frontier for the arts and cultures / Sacha Kagan --1. Cultures of sustainability: The cultural dimension of sustainability / Davide Brocchi ; Zones of sustension : an exploration of eventality, culturality, and collective intuition in life and work / Oleg Koefoed ; Angst and unsustainability in postmodern times / Volker Kirchberg -- 2. The reflexive artist and the ethics of sustainability: Sustainability, art and reflexivity : why artists and designers may become key change agents in sustainability / Hans Dieleman ; Art effectuating social change : double entrepreneurship in conventions / Sacha Kagan ; The limits of sustainability : the art of ecology / David Haley -- 3. Discourses, practices and search processes in the arts: Reflections on vulnerability: aspects of sustainability of art in post-war and conflict societies; the examples of Kosovo and Afghanistan / Felicia Herrschaft ; Art and climate (change) perception: outline of a phenomenology of climate / Julien Knebusch -- 4. Voices from the field: The butterfly effect of hummingbirds : environmental triage : disturbance theory, triggerpoints, and virtual analogs for physical sites / Aviva Rahmani ; Art, advocacy and social development : designing and implementing art-based human rights advocacy campaigns at the organisation Art for Humanity / Jan Jordaan ; Chances and limits of art and sustainability / Insa Winkler -- 5. Unsustainable art worlds or unsustainable uses of the arts?: Manifesta 2006: when art met politics / Caterina Pizanias ; Everlasting love: the sustainability of top-down versus bottom-up approaches to music and conflict transformation / Arild Bergh ; Artist's ego-trip: framing the self-destructive dimensions of contemporary arts through Alem Korkut's work / Kubilay Akman -- 6. Cultural heritage, creative cities and development: System-wide cultural districts : an introduction from the Italian viewpoint / Pier Luigi Sacco, Guido Ferilli and Sabrina Pedrini ; Sustainable utilization of cultural heritage resources for socio-economic development purposes : what has to be done by institutions and organizations? / Annie Tubadji -- 7. Fashion and ethics (or how does sustainability enter the creative industries?): From art & fashion to homo civicus / Laura Verdi ; The symbolic and material space of fair fashion / Emanuela Mora -- Postface. Seven points for an agenda: research and action on cultures and arts for sustainability / Sacha Kagan and Hans Dieleman -- Abouth the authors

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