Conversation, Re-Imagine project closing conference, online
How free is artistic and cultural practice when it ties itself to a cause, such as sustainable development? How can artistic and cultural activists avoid moralism? This 45-minute interactive session engages participants in a reflective conversation on their roles, means, and responsibilities.
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 18:00 hours CET, via Zoom Event hosted and prepared by me for Sustainable Europe Research Institute Germany, in collaboration with Pro Progressione, Hungary What connects the mountains with the lowlands? Rivers. Their tangle is like a circulatory and excretory system. It nourishes what is barren, irrigates what has dried up, flushes out accumulated deposits, dissolves pollutants, dilutes fertiliser and sewage concentrates. At the same time, the state of water reflects how people treat the land. This includes old mountain forests that act as sponges soaking up even heavy rainfalls. One devastating consequence of damaged forests are…
18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and 11th International Degrowth Conference Building socially just postgrowth futures – linking theory and action 24–27 June 2025, Oslo (Norway) Visit conference website If your idea of the good is at odds with the way you live, then consider changing the way you live. And if the way you want to live is at odds with the structures of your community, then consider finding, or creating, more congenial social structures. This train of thought and action is at least as old as any languages that can express it, as evidenced by…