Calendar

JANUARY - MARCH 2011

AGENTS OF CHANGE
Ecological Citizenship and The Art of Changing One's Mind(set) 

Interdisciplinary Symposia - Participatory Seminars - Dialogue Processes
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Programme 2011 in Oxford
All events are free and open to everyone.

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Friday 4 February 11 - 4.30 (Oxford Brookes Univ. Buckley Bdg, BG01)
Dr. Maritta Koch-Weser
Re-thinking Sustainability: New directions for Rio+20? 

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Friday 18 Feb 11 - 4.30 (Oxford Brookes. Buckley Bdg, BG01)
Allan Kaplan
Taking Goethe seriously - stretching our thinking 

Only 40 participants.
Please RSVP to lturner@brookes.ac.uk
about the process on 18 Feb with Allan Kaplan.

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Monday 21 February 4 - 7.30 (Oxford Brookes, Buckley Bdg, BG01)
Dr. Wolfgang Zumdick
Aesthetic Education and Poetic Imagination: key tools for social and ecological change 

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Friday 4 March 11- 4.30 (Oxford Brookes Univ. Buckley Bdg, BG01)
Prof. Dr. Alex Arteaga
Knowledge as process of transformation... and how aesthetic practice can contribute to it 

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Friday 18 March 11 - 5 (Oxford Brookes Univ. Buckley Bdg, BG01)

A one-day symposium and dialogue process with contributions from 3 leading figures in the field of arts and sustainability - Arran Stibbe, Hildegard Kurt and Peter Gingold

Dr. Arran Stibbe
Ecological citizenship and the Arts

Dr. Hildegard Kurt
What has sustainability got to do with an expanded understanding of art? 

Peter Gingold
Tipping Point: facilitating collaboration between artists and climate experts 

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These lectures, seminars, workshops and 1-day symposia are hosted by:
the Social Sculpture Research Unit; the Arts, Culture, Sustainability OBU university-wide research forum and ARP - the Arts Practice Research cluster at Oxford Brookes

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Please bring your own refreshments. Lunch can be purchased in the near-by canteen.

VENUE: all events at Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Buckley Building BG01
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For information please contact Lucy Turner lturner@brookes.ac.uk

 

AGENTS of CHANGE - ECOLOGICAL CITIZENSHIP Summer School

See detailed programme for this summer school in July 2011 or
www.http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/shortcourses/details/agents_of_change/
or www.hildegard-kurt.de

Book online from January 2011
For information please contact Lucy Turner lturner@brookes.ac.uk


 

 

June 2010 - MELBOURNE


Social Sculpture - Intensive Programme

Every Human Being an Artist:
The Art of Changing One's Mind(set)

2 x 3-day workshops

Beginning 10 June 2010

No Fees - Contributions to support further projects!

MORE DETAILS 

 

 

23 March 2010 

ART  -  CULTURE  -  SUSTAINABILTY
Social Sculpture Research Forum at Oxford Brookes University

Beth Carruthers (Canada) and Alex Arteaga (Berlin and Barcelona) - will present their work as a basis for dialogue with each other and the audience.

The title of Beth's talk is:
CALL and RESPONSE:  Deep Aesthetics and the Heart of the World

Alex's talk is entitled:
PROCESS-RELATION-TRANSFORMATION: Embodiment, Sustainable Thinking and Aesthetic Practice

PROGRAMME
11- 1 Beth Carruthers;  2- 4 Alex Arteaga;  5 - 7 Dialogue and discussion

VENUE
Buckley Building, BG01, Gipsey Lane, Oxford Brookes University. (Buckley is directly on London/Headington Road close to busstops to and from London and Oxford.)

Everyone welcome.

ART, CULTURE, SUSTAINABILITY  is a new series of symposia, seminars and conversations exploring the connection between ethics and aesthetics, between inner and outer work, and highlighting the link that E.M. Schumacher made several decades ago between 'the culture of the inner person' and our work toward a viable future. 

Poster: Rosa van Wyk. Image source: Beth Carruthers

April 24 2009

"Art and Experience" seminar on artists residencies, with special reference to the exchange faciltated by Petra Johnson between China and Europe.

This seminar wil take place at Oxford Brookes.

It is organized by Petra Johnson (as part of her PhD research) and hosted by the Social Sculpture Research Unit.

http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/event/art_and_experience_conference_on_artists_residencies/