| December 18th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Our co-editor Wallace Heim continues our series of new metaphors for sustainability with a guidance system that changes hands.
Walking an unfamiliar Cumbrian fell with a compass, often without a map, links me to the land in a special way. The invisible, magnetic
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| November 18th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Wallace Heim writes:
We began thinking about metaphor and sustainability when we noticed that there weren’t any strong or imaginative metaphors for the concept, or ones that we could easily use in conversation. Metaphors are pervasive in human thought and communication. ‘Sustainability’ stood out as an
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| September 10th, 2011 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ztEgLXSiek”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ztEgLXSiek
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Image left: Bidon arme (Loaded Drum), 2004 Romuald Hazoume Right: Treebike – image from the International freecard alliance for World Environment day, 5 June 2009
An exhibition that I stumbled upon accidentally a few months ago has stayed with me. On a
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| August 16th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Carolyn Steel calls herself a ‘food urbanist’, and she brings a notion of the ‘good life’ to our series of New metaphors for sustainability.
What is it we’re trying to sustain? For me, the meal is the emblematic, wonderful situation that sums up the whole point
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| August 14th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
In response to our New metaphors for sustainability series, Chris Ballance wrote to us and agreed we could post his email. As a playwright, Chris was one of our earliest listings on the Directory. He was Green Party Member and Member of the Scottish
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| August 9th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Zoë Svendsen, theatre director and researcher, continues our series New metaphors for sustainability by turning to ‘symbiosis’ as a better term.
When I was given the challenge of thinking about a metaphor for sustainability, I realized I didn’t really know what it was, other
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| August 7th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
When we asked Hester Reeve, artist and lecturer, to suggest a metaphor for our series New metaphors for sustainability, she offered to make this DVD, “Come into my house.”
The term ‘sustainability’ is rightly used first and foremost in the contexts of both local and global policy
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| August 3rd, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
In a recent series of seminars on site-based performance and environmental change, our Ashden Directory co-editor Wallace Heim met Alison Parfitt, of the Wildland Research Institute, and writer on conservation. Here, Alison considers her sweet pea as a metaphor in our series [read more]
| July 30th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home is two adults and three children living in Everton, Liverpool. They talked together about sustainability, and here are their metaphors for our series.
Neal (aged 10): The world is big plank of wood
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| July 21st, 2011 | From the ‘iron curtain’ to the ‘glass ceiling’, metaphors are one of the most powerful ways in which we frame the way we think. Yet one of the key concepts in environmentalism – sustainability – seems to be remarkably short of vivid metaphors.
So we asked some artists, writers, architects, cultural commentators, environmentalists,
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Sustainability in Theater
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New Metaphors for Sustainability from the Ashden Directory
From the ‘iron curtain’ to the ‘glass ceiling’, metaphors are one of the most powerful ways in which we frame the way we think. Yet one of the key concepts in environmentalism – sustainability – seems to be remarkably short of vivid metaphors.
So we asked some artists, writers, architects, cultural commentators, environmentalists,
[read more]
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