"Beyond Green: The Arts as a Catalyst for Sustainability" (English)
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Salzburg Highlights
Often treading a fine line between arts and advocacy, many artists and cultural organizations have sparked collaborations that reveal new ways of living together on a shared planet.
For five days this February, 58 artists, activists, urban planners, and policymakers from 28 different countries came together in Salzburg, Austria for the program: Beyond Green: The Arts as Catalyst for Sustainability to promote social, economic, and environmental sustainability through the arts and cultural innovation.
You can read the newly published session report and all our session highlights below.
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Session Review
A Workshop, a "Canvas", a New Language and New Ethics
Artists, activists and policymakers propose new ways the arts can be a catalyst for sustainability
Post-session Update
Grants Awarded to Innovative Arts & Sustainability Projects
David Rockefeller Fund awards grants to innovative projects coming out of session Beyond Green
Interviews
Prairie Rose Seminole - “We must reclaim our land where we can and make our voice heard”
Prevention Specialist for the Boys and Girls Club of the Three Affiliated Tribes in New Town, ND, USA explains why the land is so important to her community
Marco Kusumawijaya - Change happens “community by community, postcode by postcode”
Director of the Rujak Centre for Urban Studies in Indonesia on the importance of communities as intermediaries of change
Pireeni Sundaralingam - Small Acts of Independence are Vital
US-based British-Sri Lankan neuroscientist talks about her experience as an immigrant on Austrian radio station FM4
Michael Premo - We Need to Shift the Balance Towards People
US filmmaker and artist shares his opinion of the Paris Climate Change Agreement on Austrian radio station
Pavlos Georgiadis - Our Generation has a Unique Opportunity
Ethnobiologist talks about conscious consumption of food and the benefits of understanding where food comes from on FM4
Prairie Rose Seminole - Keeping up with Traditions is Becoming a Dying Art
Prevention Specialist for the Boys and Girls Club of the Three Affiliated Tribes in New Town, ND, USA appears on Austrian radio station FM4 to talk about being conscious about food and traditions
Session Recaps
Enablers of change
Who can help change happen?
Turning trash into treasure
From garbage to garments, coffee waste to wall tiles, empty squares to urban oases
Arts, Sustainability and the City
What role do cities play in using culture and the arts as a catalyst for sustainability?
Learning from ArtCOP21
ArtCOP21 had 550 events, 250 artists, 54 countries engaged - but what did we learn?
Raising awareness and catalyzing public engagement
How can art inspire the public to take action on social injustices such as climate change?
What are our conscious limitations?
Art as a Catalyst for Sustainability session consider the neuroscience behind changing mindset
“The artist has left the building”
Artists need to “opt in” and go beyond the gallery to inspire political change
Bolder policymaking
How can art encourage bolder policymaking?