The role of art for a global (environ)mental cultural change (radius of art)
Channel: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Date: 10/02/2012

The role of art for a global (environ)mental cultural change
Wednesday, 8th, 14.30 -- 15.45
Large Auditorium 1

The panel puts forward the central questions of the thematic stream as elaborated
in the background text for the stream: Which transformations in our "mental
infrastructures" do we need for a transition towards "cultures of sustainability"?
What role may art play in a global (environ)mental change process?

Speakers:
Gianluca Bocchi (Professor of Philosophy of Science and Epistemology of
Human Science at the University of Bergamo, Italy)
David Haley (Senior Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute for Research
and Innovation in Art and Design, MIRIAD, at the Manchester Metropolitan
University)
Programme -- Art toward cultures of sustainability
Pooja Sood (Artistic Director of KHOJ International Artists´ Association, New
Delhi, India)
Moderator:
Dan Baron (International Project Director and responsible for teacher-education
in Arts Education at the Institute of Transformance: Culture and Education
in Belem, Brazil)