2011-08-24
How can innovative artistic animation of public spaces contribute to building more sustainable cities?
Community sustainability is viewed as encompassing and intertwining environmental, cultural, social, and economic sustainability and resiliency. This international event promotes knowledge development and exchanges of practice-led research on cultural and social dimensions of sustainable city-building, involving architects, theatre-makers, community artists, urban developers, researchers in many disciplines, and university teachers and students. These exchanges will be facilitated in two ways: (a) an international symposium in which participants share their experiences and insights and discuss the challenges of the work; and (b) two workshops in which artists/architects and researchers work together.
Overall objectives:
To explore and advance arts-based approaches to sustainable city building, public engagement, and animation of public space by bringing together interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners, and students to share comparative experiences, traditions, and insights.
To catalyze interdisciplinary knowledge sharing on topics of social and creative sustainability, especially on how to catalyze and support the participation of citizens in improving the sustainability of their local environment through artistic practices and approaches.
Themes:
- Animating public space through artistic practices
- Sustainable use of public space
- Urban-nature interactions
- Community change, engagement, and social sustainability
- Community transitions and sustainabilities
- Heritage and memory
- Creativity for sustainability
- Sustainability and creative education
- Artistic-based inquiry
Event Partners
- Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance at Thompson Rivers University, Canada
- Utrecht School for the Arts, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCACT) thematic area on Urban Management and Cultural Policy of the City
- University of Coimbra Cities and Urban Cultures MA and PhD programmes
- University of Coimbra Department of Architecture
- O Teatrão, Coimbra, Portugal
- Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (CAPC), Coimbra
- HIK Designers, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- STUT Theatre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Podium voor de Architectuur / Pier K, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
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