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Why the Sustainability Movement Needs Art to Survive

This paper discusses sustainability theory, and the underdevelopment of the "social/culture leg" of the sustainability tripod. This talk reviews the history of the sustainability movement beginning with the Bruntland Comission, and discusses the importance of environmental change that is rooted in the social sphere.

Ecological Art: A Call for Visionary Intervention in a Time of Crisis

Leonardo, 2012

At a time when the world is beset by ecological crises, ecological art offers inspiration, insight and innovation. This essay provides an overview of the artistic and scientific roots of the practice and illustrates the significant role that ecoart can play in the formation, development and promulgation of a culture of sustainability

Art Can Save Us. Art Between Sustainability, Ecology, Economy

Anja Puntari Website, online, December 2012, http://www.anjapuntari.com, 2012

Over the past four decades people engaged in a profound reflection on the relationship between man and the environment, on resource consumption and the impact of our species on other species and the environment. This growing awareness regarding the understanding of the natural dynamics together with its related crucial responsibilities have deeply affected, and are still affecting, our culture and our lives. From a general point of view this is embedded within a wider process of relativization, an inescapable historical, cultural, evolutional path, which, on the one hand, pushes human beings further "into" the rest of the living world but, on the other hand, confronts them with questions, choices and responsabilities, thus shaping a new awareness which seems to set a line of discontinuity with the past. Copernicus and Darwin, in particular, provided a good contribution to this process. Copernicus removed man from the centre of the universe, although he was still the chosen creature on Earth, the first and highest among the living. Three centuries later, Darwin went further into relativization by depriving our species of its privileged position on the Earth at the top of the pyramid. Like all other living beings, mankind did not result from a sudden and supernatural act but from a long evolutionary and tormented process and a self-fulfilling "project without a designer". All living beings, including human beings, were not created as they are today and they are not fixed and immutable; they actually evolved from a remote group of common primeval organisms and this process started about 3.8 billion years ago. Nature as "a system of matter in motion managed by precise laws, which can be explained by reasoning, without resorting to supernatural entity" [1] has, therefore, a story, an evolution that is still ongoing.

Towards ecological sustainability: observations on the role of the arts

S a P I En S Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society, 2014

This paper describes how the arts shape environmental behaviour of individuals and society and is a synthesis arising from a program of previous publication. The literature suggests that the arts may have a role in shaping environmental behaviour but it is not clear how or in what circumstances this might occur. Hence we set out to describe ways in which the arts shape environmental behaviour at the individual level and, through the accumulated actions of individuals, at the societal level. Through this examination we aim to explain the role of the arts in moving society towards ecological sustainability. Our research drew on interviews with 96 key informants working in the arts and in the natural resource management sectors, combined with a mix of empirical, experimental and post hoc studies of eight community-based art and environment events. On the basis of this research, a model was developed to describe how the arts can shape environmental behaviour. Three pathways are proposed: communicating information in an engaging form; creating empathy towards the natural environment; and embedding the arts in ecologically sustainable development.

Sustainability and Art Making

Sustainability: The Journal of Record, 2013

In this essay Andrea Olsen discusses the dialogue between the goals of sustainability practices and the skills of art making. She draws on examples from her daily walks on the Monterey Peninsula in California and 30 years of teaching dance and environmental studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. As visiting scholar at the Monterey Institute of International Studies spring semester 2013, Olsen reflects on the edge between all that we know from our heritage and studies and all there is to discover moment by moment-the dynamic ecotone of art and science. She considers that the creative process of art making gives students the confidence to visualize an idea and make it real-whether that's installing a complex public sculpture or saving an old-growth forest. Artistic discipline provides students with a practiced form and skills for expression so they avoid depression, aggression, and repression-the burnout and health issues that accompany challenging projects. Overall, Olsen concludes, the arts help you feel-sustaining a conservation ethic through responsiveness to both form and flow.

Sustainability as inspiration for art, some theory and a gallery of examples

2006

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Realising potentials for arts-based sustainability science

Sustainability Science

In recent years, a profusion of methods, practices, and experiences has emerged in the interface between arts and sustainability science. Drawing from two strong currents within sustainability science, namely, the emphasis on transdisciplinary approaches and the need to move towards societal transformations, such hybrid approaches seemingly contribute with unique methods to sustainability research. Despite repeated claims from sustainability scientists about art’s role in sustainability transformations, joint analyses with artists and practitioners are still rare. We conveyed a collaborative and exploratory workshop with scientists, artists, and practitioners from the fields of education, public engagement, and activism to identify the potentials for arts-based sustainability research. Participants were invited to facilitate and trial various artistic practices from disciplines of performative, literary, narrative, audio-visual and plastic arts. In this paper, we present five key ar...