Key Messages aus der Veranstaltung
#9 Kulturelle Teilhabe
Practicing Cultural Participation in our diverse realms calls for institutional democracy and political commitment within Higher Education. This is key for addressing sustainability.
29. September 2023
Practicing Cultural Participation in our diverse realms calls for institutional democracy and political commitment within Higher Education. This is key for addressing sustainability.
29. September 2023
#9 Kulturelle Teilhabe
«Right for We»
Justice and inequality seem to be difficult to address within current discussions around sustainability. However, sustainability and social inequality are intricately linked. The complexity of the unfolding world attributable to its growing diversity, the manner in which differences of many varieties increasingly co-exist, the challenge of climate crisis, altered living conditions and scenarios of the future asks for the ability to engage with the world. How can we gain experience and overcome the feeling of powerlessness to act against dominant and long established structures? How can we avoid disengagement? How can we acquire a literacy that enables us to understand our embeddedness in social, cultural, natural, environmental and geographical contexts? Our institutions and we as institutional actors have a responsibility to foster Critical Sustainability Literacy and inquire how the arts possibly can contribute.
#9 Kulturelle Teilhabe
Given the challenges of diversity and sustainability, activism must be seen as an academic activity.
29. September 2023
Given the challenges of diversity and sustainability, activism must be seen as an academic activity.
29. September 2023
#9 Kulturelle Teilhabe
«Right for We»
We are faced with enormous challenges due to climate crisis and social inequalities. As academics and educators, we have to help people deal with these increasing problems. Activism as an academic activity has to be understood as an interdisciplinary practice that produces a “Tipping point” by considering pertinent questions that inevitably confront us with a series of paradoxes. Activism is necessary in way of a disruption that irritates and ultimately strengthens prevailing political and social frameworks. It can take on the task of affecting the inside working of an institution without belonging to it entirely. It exposes weaknesses, shakes up existing orders and, with its actions and ideas, is interested in improving them.
#9 Kulturelle Teilhabe
We need a new approach to transdisciplinary work with arts practices to address transformative change.
29. September 2023
We need a new approach to transdisciplinary work with arts practices to address transformative change.
29. September 2023
#9 Kulturelle Teilhabe
«Right for We»
Why don’t we act in spite of knowing how we could address multiple environmental crises? How, by applying a cultural perspective, can we criticize the history of ideas that brought us to this moment and think transformative change differently? Through the practice of art and engagement with art, we are able to develop another way of being that addresses the knowledge-action gap. In and through artistic performance, an ecopolitical imagination emerges and through art-science collaboration a shared ecological ontology can be focussed across disciplines.