🌱How can artists reconcile their creative pursuits with the urgent need for environmental sustainability? Ukrainian environmentalist-turned-potter, Yuliya Makliuk, works within a framework she calls “Ceramics in the Anthropocene”, exploring the connections between clay art and climate change. Her recent research project and book, Potters Save the World, are dedicated to lowering the carbon footprint of ceramics making. Through the lens of ceramic studio art, Yuliya will unfold the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of art, craft, and ecological responsibility.
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Green Academy Seminar Series – Episode 5
🌱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 Green Academy Networking Café
🏡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?
Green Academy Seminar Series – Episode 4
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!