Launch of Culture|Futures

nik — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:28:28 +0000

Start: 2009-12-07 13:00 Europe/Copenhagen

End: 2009-12-07 19:30 Europe/Copenhagen

"Culture|Futures creates an enabling environment for those cultural actors who are moved to express their perspectives about creating an Ecological Age, by recognising, encouraging and supporting them.

The Culture|Futures expanding spiral of engagement begins its journey at the launch symposium on 7th December. Participants are invited to explore the Culture|Futures proposition and to grow the spiral of engagement supporting the COP climate change negotiations.

At the working seminar on the following two days, 8th/9th December, cultural actors from many backgrounds and from around the world, will address the strategic role of culture in delivering an Ecological Age. Participants will collaborate to develop and crystallise the cultural messages about how the spiral of engagement will expand and involve ever more people."

http://www.culturefutures.org/

Luminous Green

nik — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:04:27 +0000

Reflecting on the role of the arts, design and technology in an environment of turbulence

Luminous Green is a series of gatherings about a human world, which is enlightened, imaginative, electrified and most importantly – living in a fertile symbiosis with the rest of the planet. The series was initiated in 2006 by FoAM in Brussels, calling to the creative sector to enrich the public debate around environmental sustainability, ethical living and eco-design. Discussions about these topics tend to revolve around mitigating the effects of climate change, carbon emissions, or terrorism. With Luminous Green, we want to broaden the topic, looking at preparing for and adapting to a life in turbulent social, economic and environmental conditions.

Luminous Green provides an opportunity for the artists and designers to become proactive in these discussions and truly become the engaged avant-garde that many claim to be. From the position of respected discussion partners, we can work together with other sectors to design our way out of the current mess. We don’t expect everyone to agree with each other, but a respectful questioning of each other’s practices is a healthy thing – it heals arrogance, isolationism and xenophobia. With this in mind, we have designed the Luminous Green workshop to enable artists and designers to put their skills into practice, as well as learn new approaches and visions, through discussion and collaboration with dedicated practitioners from a variety of other fields.

The series is envisaged to promote trans-disciplinary discussions and collaborations between the creatives, industries, academia, grass-roots initiatives, business and policy leaders. Luminous Green brings together people whose practice incorporates ecological thinking as its core value, or as a major concern. The objective of Luminous Green is to spawn inspiring propositions, innovative methods and scalable interventions, looking to advance the participants’ practice beyond conservation and sustainability. Using novel facilitation techniques based on OST (Open Space Technology) and ARG (Alternate Reality Gaming), Luminous Green encourages participation, interaction and commitment between everyone involved.

http://luminousgreen.org

FoAM - climate chaos

Launch of Culture|Futures

Luminous Green