The Big Green
With our flagship project, The Big Green, we are bringing environmentally-engaged artists under one large-scale umbrella initiative and experiment with innovative ways of using art to promote sustainability.
PP Green
PP Green is our newest pillar that focuses on how art can help bring about environmental & social sustainability. Throughout history, art has been a catalyst for social change, yet, its potential in the context of sustainability remains unexploited. Efforts in this direction remain fragmented and isolated and the Cultural and Creative Sector (CCS) is still not treated as a relevant stakeholder by the EU’s sustainability policies. To change the value proposition of CCS, we are building a network of environmentally-engaged artists, we equip them with innovative knowledge and tools to tackle climate change and we facilitate collaborations among policy-makers and the creative and environmental sectors.
Rebeka Wende – project manager
Since childhood, I was raised with a consciousness of preserving my environment, especially plants and animals. This mentality has accompanied me throughout my studies, as my degree in environmental engineering has made me even more committed to this position. I believe that through art and PP Green’s projects we can better engage people in sustainability and environmental awareness.
Máté Tenke – project manager
Although the arts have centuries of experience in the struggle for freedom and human rights, they have yet to tackle the greatest collective challenge facing humanity: climate change. Its current toolkit is not up to the task, full of harmful topos such as the individualism of Romanticism, the image of the lonely hero, the fragmentation of modernism, the short-sightedness of today’s mainstream media, which make art incapable of rising to the task. I am interested in this challenge, which is also an opportunity for renewal that transforms both the ideological and practical tools of art.
Future.Repair.Machine
The international cooperation future.repair.machine investigates the concept of repair as a sustainable and innovative tool in the cultural and social environments of five European cities: Graz, Eindhoven, Budapest, Berlin and Munich.
