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Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012

January 8, 2012Cultura21April 2007, Berlin Germany, Collective Intelligence, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Teaching Methods, Detai, Ecosystem Services, Energy Security, Environment, Essential Services, Eustatius, Francesca, International Organizations, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Local Food, Management Projects, Mexico City, Municipality, Nature Management, Netherlands, Oleg, Organic Farm, Paris France, Participants, Rana, Resilient Community, Sacha, Social Cohesion, Social Organisation, Statia, Strenghts, Term Challenges, Traditional Culture, Vitality, Volunteer Positions, Water Security

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Netherlands (Special Municipality of Sint Eustatius)
Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012

For the time from the 1st of May to the 21st of May 2012, Aardwerk offers an international PDC course in a remote place, so that participants are able to see their environment in a new way. Instead of offering ready-made solutions, the course enables its participants to face the everyday challenges as well as the long term challenges they are faced with through their own strenghts and the collective intelligence of the group. The courses aim is to provide a new way of thinking: Rather than seeing problems, participants will be able to see opportunities.
Creative teaching methods and lots of practical field work will be part of the course. In the end graduates will receive the internationally recognised PDC certificate, which opens all possibilities for further work concerning permaculture.
There is the offer of several volunteer positions at local organic farm and nature management projects, for participants who would like to stay longer.
Benefits for participants is the development of skills throughout the course, among others the following ones:

greater food sovereignty
food and drinking water security & quality assurance
more efficient use of natural resources
energy security
more sustainable an resilient community life
practical community development & social cohesion
teaching traditional culture, knowledge & skills
more autonomy and security in essential services, products and materials
ways of social organisation that suit your own communityâ€™s needs and abilities

Participants will learn that following the patterns of Nature isÂ more satisfying and rewarding than e.g. switching Nature off and taking on the burdens of providing ecosystem services.
Furthermore the participants will contribute their share for Statia in terms of climate forest, local food security, healthy economic development and cultural enrichment.
The detailed programme, information about the location and the teachers can be found on http://aardwerk.org/school/international-pdc-2012/
Registration will be open from 1 December 2011 till 1 April 2012.

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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Wasteland Twinning

October 12, 2011ecoartscotlandCanadian Partners, Curators, Different Places, Doorstep, Ecology, Edge Research, Fremantle, Indonesia, International Networks, Netherlands, Research Associate, Road Trip, School Of Art, Scientists, Signs, Sound Recordings, Spending Time, Surveys, Theoretical Texts, Variations, Wasteland

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Glengarnock on a road trip, 2004

Wasteland and stalled spaces are important.Â This new project connects wasteland in different places as well as offering some suggestions for ways to explore those on your doorstep â€“ join in and be twinned with places in Indonesia, Australia, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Malaysia, India (interestingly there are no US or Canadian partners).

Glengarnock (all that's left) 2004

Most of the ideas suggested involve spending time with your own wasteland, making sound recordings, putting up signs, doing surveys, finding sit spots, discovering whatâ€™s edible, and then inventing your own responses.Â

ecoartscotland is a resource focused on art and ecology for artists, curators, critics, commissioners as well as scientists and policy makers. It includes ecoartscotland papers, a mix of discussions of works by artists and critical theoretical texts, and serves as a curatorial platform.

It has been established byÂ Chris Fremantle, producer and research associate withÂ On The Edge Research,Â Grayâ€™s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University. Fremantle is a member of a number of international networks of artists, curators and others focused on art and ecology.
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How to Save the World: Environmental Health Clinic

March 29, 2009newsArtistic Efforts, Artworks, Bikes, Bikes Parts, Car Condoms, Car Parts, Comic Relief, Condom, Emergency Shelters, Environmental Health Clinic, Fears, Graffiti, Guidance, How To Save The World, Impending Doom, Intersection, Ish, Money, Netherlands, Reassurance, Utopia

Thereâ€™s a fun exhibit that just closed in the Netherlands called How to Save the World in 10 Days. Rather than instantly transforming our planet to a heavenly glowing utopia, the festival instead presented an overview of worldwide cultural and artistic efforts to defend the planet from impending doom.

The artworks ranged from bikes made of car parts to emergency shelters, from reverse graffiti to car condoms. That last one involved actually sliding a condom over a car tailpipe, then watching it balloon up and sputter away. Worked practically for a minute, then served mostly as comic relief.

A performance that seemed to encapsulate the essence of the ish was the performance â€œEnvironmental Health Clinic.â€ The artist set up a booth in the center of a busy intersection and encouraged visitors to sit and unload their environmental concerns. She then would offer guidance, reassurance, and action tips. Environmentalism as a primary means for assuaging fears. How to Save the World was up at Vooiruit in Gent. Thanks to we make money not art.

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