There is a massive gulf between what we now know about climate change and what we’re prepared to do about it. There’s a phrase that people use at the RSA to describe the difference between what we say we want to do and what we actually do; researchers here talk about the social
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David Cross of Cornford and Cross writes on the RSA Arts & Ecology website today about how he believes the rules of artistic engagement are about to change : As producers of visual culture, our moments of autonomy can be frustratingly elusive. We must inform and persuade, and appeal to both reason and emotion if Marc Quinn reimagines Santa for The Guardian. “Santa is usually seen as an old man, but I imagine him as having a one-year lifespan. Every January 1 he’s reborn as a baby, in an eternal cycle”. See also the contributions from Bob and Roberta Smith, Polly Borland and Gillian Wearing’s Disgraced Santa of Selfridges. The green economy is ready for take-off, and most Americans are jumping aboard Obama’s sustainable bandwagon. Will theaters join in the movement? Imagine that you’re a non-profit arts organization competing for funding in a sector where financial resources are quickly dwindling. And that you’re based in a major American city plagued by drought and situated Fragile Ecologies was a travelling exhibition that focused on activist, environmentally oriented art, and the role of artists as agents of change. It brought together material documenting the work of a dozen ecology-minded artists, or artist groups, working in diverse environments and situations. Go to RSA Arts & Ecology Reading List This book explores whether Europe can produce a sustainable future and the difficulties presented by globalisation. Focusing on politics and policy, this edited volume considers the ways in which European states and the European Union can and should organize themselves economically and socially in order to address the challenges of sustainable development. Go to Francis Tibbalds provides a new philosophical approach to the problem of urban environments and town planning, suggesting that places as a whole matter much more than the individual components that make up the urban environment such as buildings, roads and parks. Go to RSA Arts & Ecology Reading List Ecocriticism explores the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production. It traces the development of modern environmental movements and explores the concepts which have most occupied ecocritics. Go to RSA Arts & Ecology Reading List Scientist Fukuoka practices a system of farming he refers to as “natural farming.” In The One Straw Revolution, he describes the philosophy and techniques behind it and the impact of his natural farming methods. Although some of his practices are specific to Japan, the governing philosophy of his method has successfully been applied around the Ethics and Biotechnology addresses the ethical dilemmas posed by the expanding field of biotechnology. The multi-disciplinary contributors are drawn from the fields of philosophy, agricultural economics, medicine, political theory, biology, embryology, social policy and theology. Go to RSA Arts & Ecology Reading List |
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