Dear teacher / educator,
Following your interest in the teachers’ training “Sustainability Education and Empowerment through Drama – SEED”, we are hereby inviting you to attend the 1st online Info Session which is designed to help the educators to apply for the trainings.
🌱How can we develop sustainable food systems? Open questions like this call for creative ideas. But training programmes for future professionals in fields like food economics have rarely prioritised creative skills. Anke Strauß is one of the people changing this. At Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, near Berlin, Germany, students in a new bachelor’s programme on cultures of food and farming do learn a lot about topics such as soil quality, value chains, or organic production methods as seen from science and technology. But right in the first semester, they also take a course where they explore artistic approaches under Anke’s guidance.
The Big Green -project partners met in beautiful Slovenia to experience, think, learn and co-create what sustainable and creative leadership really is about. We spent 4,5 days together as a group, exploring, appreciating and enjoying the beautiful local nature and environment in Slovenian I’Julian Alps, on the edge of Triglav National Park in Bohinjska Bistrica. We built our way to the theme by discussing practical, theoretical and experience-based ways to understand what sustainable leadership means to us as individuals, members of different communities, projects or other consortia as well as citizens of Europe, and the world.
The program is designed to help teachers use drama and art methods in transformative sustainability education, with students 13-19 years of age.
The DECONFINING project aims to create a sustainable and equitable cultural and artistic exchange between Europe and Africa.
The Community (Builders) Under Construction (CUC) project explores how art can contribute to community building among marginalised groups. By engaging local ambassadors, we empower Roma youth in Hungary and young refugees and migrants in France to take ownership of the process, explore their collective identity through artistic tools, and actively shape their communities within a safe and ethical framework.
Reclaiming Technology is a practice-based research project initiated by Silvia Binda Heiserova as a resident artist of the EU Digital Deal Residencies programme hosted by Pro Progressione. By demystifying, explaining and debating technology, the project aims to question androcentric narratives around technologies and empower women to critically engage with technologies. Finally, it aspires to bring answers to the question: What could be a feminist approach to technology and how to practice it?
Reclaiming Technology Sessions is an event series dedicated to collectively examining how technology, often perceived as a neutral tool, perpetuates social and gender biases while manipulating the pace of everyday lived time, consequently diminishing opportunities for critical reflection and inclusive participation.
Join us to create a sustainable and creative Europe in our mini-conference series!!
As part of the The Big Green project, the Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 Cultural Capital (Austria), inforelais (Austria), Pro Progressione (Hungary), Marche Teatro (Italy), and Xamk (Finland) invite you to a series of inspiring mini-conferences, symposia and keynotes. Discover how we can create a greener future through innovative and sustainable approaches, together. 💡
Participation is free of charge.
🏡Ecovillages and similar communities are places where people experiment with sustainable living. More often than not, they are home to creatives. Typically, creative visioning is what drives their development in the first place, and they often use art and culture to connect with their neighbours and a wider public. For example, Green Academy Episode 4 features community design researcher Rui Vasques and the Eco Campus of 🌎Live With Earth Association (www.livewithearth.org)🌎 in Portugal. What is your experience of eco-communities as creative spaces? What questions would you like to ask about the topic?
The Colours of Our Earth: Building an Eco-arts Community from the Ground – with Rui Vasques
The second Green Academy of season 2024–25, with a focus on soil!
