Fri 19 October, 6:00pm – 7:00pm

Venue: MHL 1.17a/b, Martin Hall

FREE

Book Tickets

This conversation brings together three practitioners to explore what roles design might play in collective responses to climate change. Taking in a variety of methods, approaches and forms of design – from permaculture to architectural design; from transition design to design fictions – it will explore design as a tool for collective organisation. What can design do in the here-and-now of our warming world? What might design do in a more ecologically just world? And how might it help us get from here to there?

There’ll be plenty of chance for the audience to ask questions and there will be free refreshments and snacks.

PANELLISTS

JOANNA BOEHNERT is an environmental communicator, designer and educator. She’s a Lecturer in Design and the Creative Industries at Loughborough University and is the founding director of EcoLabs, a studio visualising complex environmental issues. Her book Design, Ecology, Politics: Towards the Ecocene was published by Bloomsbury earlier this year, and has been praised as ‘a must-read for everyone interested in design, ecology, communication and politics.’
https://ecolabsblog.com/

ANNE MARIE-CULHANE is an artist whose work across a number of forms seeks to catalyse collective organisation to reduce the harm being inflicted on the planet, to increase understanding of our place in the world, and to bring to life positive visions now and for the future. She works closely with the University’s Sustainability team as the founder of Fruit Routes, a project that saw the planting of fruit, nut trees and edible plants along footpaths and cycle paths across the university campus. It creates a spring snowfall of blossom and an autumnal abundance of fresh fruits and berries for harvesting, foraging, eating and distributing.
https://www.amculhane.co.uk/

BIANCA ELZENBAUMER combines design research methods with critical approaches to education, conflict mediation and DIY making to explore how designers can contribute to create ecologically and socially just economies. Together with Fabio Franz she founded ‘Brave New Alps’, who have instigated a number of acclaimed projects that instigate, as well as explore, alternative ways of organising our lives. These have involved collaborative working with refugees, workers’ rights groups, artists and place-based communities. Bianca is also a lecturer at Leeds Art University. http://www.brave-new-alps.com/

The conversation will be chaired by DAVID BELL, Radar’s Programme Co-Ordinator. He is also a member of Out of the Woods, a writing collective exploring the forms of sociality and struggle required to survive and thrive in the face of climate change.

This event is part of the annual Fruit Routes Harvest programme, organised by the Sustainability team at Loughborough University. Across the 19th and 20th of October there are a number of events taking place on campus. For more information please visit http://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/sustainability/biodiversity/fruit-route/.

This News Comes from A Studio in the Woods

A Studio in the Woods has announced the 2018-2019 Adaptations: Living with Change Residents. In its second year of a three year cycle, Adaptations: Living with Change residencies invite artists to examine how climate driven adaptations – large and small, historic and contemporary, cultural and scientific – are shaping our future. In 2018 -19 A Studio in the Woods will host six residencies to competitively selected artists from all disciplines that have demonstrated an established dialogue with art as social practice and a commitment to sparking creative discourse. Each artist will host a dinner and presentation of their work during their residency as well as public programming specific to their project.

Jonathan “rat de bois farouche” Mayers, Louisiana, October – November 2018 – Jonathan “rat de bois farouche” Mayers is a Louisiana Creole artist and writer from Baton Rouge, LA. While in residence, Jonathan will create high-relief, mixed-media works presenting landscapes from Grand Isle, Bayou Segnette, St. Bernard Parish and Maurepas Swamp. They will be populated with imaginary beasts using paint and physical materials from the region to bring awareness to consequences surrounding environmental change, human conflict, cultural identity, and attitudes toward la Terre. To further these narratives and in celebration of historic multiculturalism in Balbancha, the Tricentennial year of New Orleans, and the 50th Anniversary of CODOFIL, he plans to write a bilingual French and English mythological micro story or poem for each work completed, some of which will be crafted in collaboration with members of the community.

Jonathan Mayers, La Louve blanche protégeant Rayne (The White Wolf Protecting Rayne), 2018, acrylic, sediment and blue crawfish claws from the L’Eau est La Vie camp in Rayne, Louisiana on panel, repurposed frame.

Aurora Levins Morales, California, October – November 2018 – Aurora Levins Morales is an internationally known Puerto Rican Jewish feminist poet and essayist whose work explores issues of identity, social justice, and the interwoven social and natural histories of our landscapes and our bodies. While in residence Aurora will produce a prose poetry book and podcast series exploring the connections between the ecological and social histories of the Mississippi River and the Caribbean Sea, as well as the shared experiences of New Orleans and Puerto Rico of hurricane devastation and disaster capitalism, drawing from community story circles, and extending into visions for just and resilient futures.

Aurora Levins Morales

Manon Bellet, Louisiana, November – December 2018 – Manon Bellet is a French visual and olfactory artist who has lived and worked in New Orleans since 2016. Manon will extract scents from strategically chosen historic places in New Orleans and its surrounding regions which are destined to disappear soon due to ecological issues. This work aims to highlight the notions of being rooted and uprooted, especially in Louisiana. The project intends to show the risks for people who remain attached to their land, their territory, their place. Through the experience of these scents the artist hopes to broaden awareness of environmentally vulnerable areas.

Manon Bellet, Toxicité Radieuse, 2017, mixed media

Geraldine Laurendeau, Canada, January – February 2019 – Geraldine Laurendeau is a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal. A trained ethnologist, she collaborates with First Nations, museums and research institutions as an independent curator, designer and consultant on projects related to environment, land planning, heritage, culture and biodiversity conservation, food security and health. During her residency, Geraldine will look at how Louisiana’s diverse cultural groups have developed strategies to adapt and deal with the abundance of water in the region. Geraldine will use drawing and photography to document the biogeography of the area, studying topography, water movements, landscape forms and vernacular architecture. Through this work Geraldine will explore solutions while creating a water resilient site-specific earthwork that will evolve over time.

Geraldine Laurendeau, Under Arthur’s Seat, 2008, digital photography

Ash Arder, Michigan, December 2018 and May 2019 – Ash Arder is a transdisciplinary artist who creates idea and object-based systems for interpreting and re-imagining interspecies relations (i.e. relations between humans and plants). This highly flexible, research-based approach examines these relationships primarily through pop culture and historic lenses. Ash will continue developing a multi-sensory body of work that examines human-plant relations through the lens of agricultural experiments in 19th century Louisiana. Archival reports from these experiments and found field recordings will be used as source material for new works that question historic human-plant relations and speculate about the future of that exchange.

Ash Arder, Untitled (Thunderstorm Terror), 2017, Electronics, cassette tape, soil, nettle seeds

Hannah Pepper-Cunningham, Louisiana, March – April 2019 – Hannah Pepper-Cunningham has been creating performance work in New Orleans since 2009. A member of Mondo Bizarro from 2009-2018, Hannah served as co-artistic director of training programs and collaboratively developed and performed in “Cry You One” and “The Way at Midnight.” A member of Southerners on New Ground and Alternate ROOTS, Hannah organizes in multi-racial, multi-issue coalitions for racial and economic justice and LGBTQ liberation. In collaboration with New Orleans-based artists and organizers Hannah will create “Unfamiliar” (working title), a touring performance and workshop that will engage people to shift their relationships of care and responsibility in the era of climate change. Drawing on Hannah’s work in live performance, actor training and traditional music; the performance and accompanying workshop will be built to support organizing in multiracial movements for climate justice in the Southeast.

Hannah Pepper-Cunningham

About A Studio in The Woods:

A Studio in the Woods, located in 7.66 forested acres on the Mississippi River in New Orleans, is dedicated to preserving the endangered bottomland hardwood forest and providing within it a peaceful retreat where artists and scholars can work uninterrupted. A program of Tulane University’s ByWater Institute, A Studio in the Woods focuses on interrelated areas of programming including artistic and scholarly residencies, forest restoration, and science-inspired art education for children and adults. For more information, visit: www.astudiointhewoods.org.

This News Comes From Ecological Artists, Aviva Rahmani.

I’m excited to announce my new interview with The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), fresh off the (digital) presses! “The Blued Trees Symphony” is Fiscally Sponsored through NYFA. I’m a proud recipient of a 2016 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design. Click here to read the full interview.

If you are interested in purchasing Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropoceneedited by Julie Reiss which includes the essay, “Blued trees as policy: art, law, science and the Anthropocene,” there is a 12% discount code FLYPR12 when you order online!

Please check out the link below for upcoming events:

Feverish World Symposium, EcoCulture Lab
When: October 22, 2018
Where: Burlington, VT

Also…

Excerpts from Aviva Rahmani’s work-in-progress book on developing and applying trigger point theory and the evolving Blued Trees Symphony opera are uploaded each month for subscribers at https://d.rip/aviva please join!

Top Image: “Blued Trees Stands for Environmental Justice” photograph by Joel Greenberg, August 30, 2018

Blued Trees is a division of Gulf to Gulf, a project fiscally sponsored by NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts), a 501©3, tax exempt organization founded in 1971 to work with the arts community throughout New York State to develop and facilitate programs in all disciplines. NYFA will receive grants on behalf of the project and ensure the use of grant funds in accordance with the grant agreements as well as provide program or financial reports as required. Any donations made to the project through NYFA are tax deductible!

Join The Climate Museum on September 21 to celebrate their second exhibition at the Admiral’s House on Governors Island!

The reception will be held from 7:00pm – 9:00pm. Please RSVP here.

The opening will celebrate Climate Signals, a multi-site public art installation by Justin Brice Guariglia co-presented with the NYC Mayor’s Office – Climate Policy and Programs and a host of partners across the City you can find here.

The Climate Museum will also be celebrating the Climate Museum hub, the Museum’s first temporary space. The hub features an interactive room where you can create and share your own climate signal. In addition, together with the NYC Climate Action Alliance, they are presenting Climate Changers of NY, a series of large-scale portraits by David Noles celebrating New Yorkers who are making a difference.

The climate crisis requires us to think, talk, and act together. The intention of both Climate Signals and Climate Changers is to move us toward that connection and engagement. Join The Climate Museum!

Danielle Eubank, a Los Angeles-based painter dedicated to painting bodies of water across the world, has been nominated for the Human Impact Institute’s 2018 Creative Climate Awards in Manhattan, NY, opening Sept 17, 2018.

“I have made it my life’s work to show audiences the preciousness of water,” says Eubank. “I have dedicated the last 17 years to showing the diversity of water and encouraging audiences to really look at it.”

Her depictions of the oceans are a mixture of realism and abstraction, inviting us to create our own ideas of water from different perspectives. Examining water from different parts of the world, she deconstructs its form into separate abstract stacks of textures, shapes, and colors.

In addition to enticing audiences to really look at distinct water sources she paints, she will ask the audience to do two practical things, now, to take action to address climate change. She has created handheld cards with her artwork on one side and suprisingly simple steps we all can take to help combat climate change, on the other. The audience is encouraged to put two on their person, in their pocket, and carry them around with them.

Eubank began painting all of Earth’s oceans in 2001. She has traveled over 30,000 miles on sea, painted more than 200 bodies of water, and visited 21 countries. She strives to facilitate public conversation about water issues through her work and experiences. Using mostly oil paints to document these bodies of water, she works to bring awareness to issues like climate change and water conservation.

She plans to visit Antarctica in February 2019 to paint her last ocean–the Southern Ocean. For more information see www.oneartistfiveoceans.com

Human Impacts Institute’s 2018 Creative Climate Awards runs Sept 17-Oct 12, 2018.

Opening: Sept 17, 2018 6-8:30pm. Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) 1 East 42^nd Street, New York, NY 10017 https://www.humanimpactsinstitute.org/creative-climate-awards.

About the Human Impacts Institute

Human Impacts Institute are social entrepreneurs who create and share innovative approaches to tackling social and environmental issues. Programs pair artists and scientists to engage new audiences in climate change solutions, bring youth to the boardroom, and get policy makers’ hands dirty as they care for local street trees. The Institute is action-oriented. The Institute helps people of diverse ages and backgrounds connect personally to the most pressing environmental issues. The Institute believes the environment is not separate from our society and that healthy communities, stable economies, and social equity cannot exist without environmental well-being. They go beyond doling out information in hope that people will change. Instead, they inspire people to transform their behavior by making issues personal to their lives.

We have some important updates to share. 

SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON

SUBSCRIPTION LEVELS

SUPPORTER
$1 per month
Bask in the good karma of supporting sustainability in the arts.

DIGITAL QUARTERLY SUBSCRIBER
$3.50 per month
Get access to 4 issues of the CSPA Quarterly per year– keep in touch with what we’re up to, and support the work of our contributors, for the cost of a derivative of 350– the safe concentration of ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION & CSPA REPORTS
$5 per month
Good Karma, A full subscription to the CSPA Quarterly, and digital copies of CSPA Reports as they emerge. Past reports have included an overview Sustainability Impacts of the Fusebox Festival, and an Anthology of Short Climate Change Plays. Your added support makes these reports possible!

PRINT SUBSCRIPTION
$10 per month
A full subscription to the CSPA Quarterly, with both print and digital forms, for those who prefer to read away from screens. Digital copies of CSPA Reports. Limited availability!

PRINT SUBSCRIPTION & CSPA REPORTS
$15 per month
All of the above, plus printed copies of CSPA Reports. Limited Availability!

LIBRARY BUILDER
$20 per month
All of the above, plus once a year, we send you a book from our “Essential Reading” library. Limited Availability!

ORGANIZATIONAL SUBSCRIBER
$45 per month
For organizations only! Exclusive invitations and discounts to CSPA Convergences, including Workshops, online seminars, and discounted registration fees at partnering conferences.

• Institution Logo on CSPA website
• Full Print & Digital Subscription to CSPA Quarterly
• One 1/4 Page Advertisement in an issue of the Quarterly per year
• Printed & Digital versions of our research reports for libraries and course support
• Early announcements for special events and opportunities
• Library of licensed classroom content

SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON

Advertise with us

There’s many opportunities to both support our work and increase the audience for your own work, on our website, and in both our digital and print publications. Please contact for inquiries: moe@sustainablepractice.org.