Conference: "radius of art" Fostering the transition towards cultures of sustainability

Fostering the transition towards cultures of sustainability – A policy debate

Which institutional frameworks, support structures, policy processes, and funding designs may foster – rather than hinder or limit – art‘s transformative potential towards cultures of sustainability? How to retain subversive imagination, openness for transformations, and avoid instrumentalisation? How to genuinely integrate across policy borders and beyond linear planning? How to support ecological artists and foster cultural diversity?

Speakers:
Dan Baron (International Project Director and responsible for teacher-education in Arts Education at the Institute of Transformance: Culture and Education in Belem, Brazil)
Adrienne Goehler (Berlin-based Curator, and Cultural Politician; Proposer of a Fonds for Aesthetics and Sustainability)
Jordi Pascual (Coordinator of the process “Agenda21 for Culture” at the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG); Teacher for urban cultural policy and management at the Open University of Catalonia – UOC in Barcelona)

Moderator:
Nancy Duxbury (Senior Researcher and Co-coordinator of the Cities, Cultures and Architecture research group at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal; Adjunct Professor of the School of Communication,
Simon Fraser University, Canada)