2-10 September 2010
Exhibition on
Environmental Art workshop
Helsinki, Finland
Exhibtion by artists who participated in the
Environmental Art workshop to Kilpisjärvi Biological Station last spring. The
location is Gallery Atski, on the 8th floor of Aalto University School of Art
and Design, Hämeentie 135 C.
14 September 2010
Seminar: Model for Evergreen
Environmental Education from Vihti
ULKONA OPPIMISEN IKIVIHREÄ SEMINAARI (text in Finnish below)
Aalto University School of Art and Design, Annala Garden, Helsinki, Finland
Time: Tuesday 14.9.2010 at 9.00-16.00
Place: Aalto University School of Art and Design/TAIK (Hämeentie 135 C Helsinki)
and Annala Garden/Association for useful plants (Hämeentie 154)
The Model for Evergreen Environmental Education has been
developed in Vihti in collaboration with schools and local Vihti 4H-association.
The model gives profound and hands-on possibilities to accomplish the school
curriculum in the outdoors. It means learning environments including school
garden, farm, forest and the water as places to learn by doing and by
experience. Nature art education is one important element to enlarge use of the
model in school every day.
The aim of the seminar is collect together outdoor and enviromental educators
and decision makers – school headmasters, teachers, officials on municipality
and state levels, researchers and students.
Program of the seminar on Tuesday 14.9.2010
9.30 Registration and morning coffee in Aalto University School of Art and
Design/TAIK (Hämeentie 135 C Helsinki)
10.00 Wellcome to the seminar, Professor of Arts Pirkko Pohjakallio.
10.15 Evergreen Enviromental Education Model of Vihti, Mirva Lindfors Vihti
4H-association.
10.30 In the beginning there is did. Lic.Soc.Sci, MA Jaana Venkula.
11.15 The model of living learning in Norway. Farm as a pedagogigal resource.
Prof Erling Krogh and researcher Linda Jolly, UMB Norwegian University of Life
Sciences.
12.00 Comment speeches from the representatives of official of the ministeriums
of education, environment, agriculture and the Aalto University.
Walk to Annala Garden 12.15-12.30
Lunch and presentation of the Annala Garden in two groups.
Examples of different possibilities of outdoor learning – exhibition in the
Annala Garden.
13.45 The connection between learning and gardening. Anu Ranta Association of
useful plants.
14.15 Nature Art Workshop. Teacher of environment art and Pauliina Ruokokoski,
Taidelipas and researcher and artist Jan van Boeckel, Aalto University.
15.30-16.00 The future visions of the possibililties for use of the Model of
Evergreen Environment Education.
The seminar is organized by the Vihti 4H-associaton and The Model of Evergreen
Environment Education in collaboration with the Aalto University School of Arts
and Design/TAIK and Annala Garden The Association of Useful Plants.
The seminar is financed by the Ministery of Environment and the Municipality of
Vihti.
ULKONA OPPIMISEN IKIVIHREÄ SEMINAARI
Aika: 14.9.2010 klo 9:00-16:00
Paikka: Aalto-yliopisto Taiteen laitos/TAIK Sampo-Sali (Hämeentie 135 C
Helsinki) ja Annalan puutarha Hyötykasviyhdistys (Hämeentie 154 Helsinki)
Ympäristökasvatuksen ikivihreä toimintamalli on kehitetty Vihdin 4H-yhdistyksen
ja vihtiläisten koulujen yhteistyönä. Ikivihreä mallin avulla on kouluilla
mahdollisuus luoda itselleen ulkona oppimisen kokonaisuus, jossa puutarha,
maatila, metsä ja vesistö toimivat oppimisympäristöinä sekä tekemisen ja
kokemisen paikkoina. Ympäristötaide sekä kädentaidot ovat kiinteä osa ikivihreän
mallin ympäristökasvatusta. Ulkona oppimisen seminaari on suunnattu
ympäristökasvatuksen ja ulkona oppimisen tekijöille sekä aiheesta
kiinnostuneille rehtoreille, opettajille, kuntahallinnon ja valtakunnan tason
päättäjille ja vaikuttajille, tutkijoille ja opiskelijoille.
9:00 Ilmoittautuminen ja aamukahvit Aalto-yliopisto/ TAIK
9:15 Tervetuloa seminaariin, prof. Pirkko Pohjakallio
9:30 Ikivihreän toimintamallin ympäristökasvatus TJ Mirva Lindfors Vihdin
4H-yhdistys
9:45 Alussa on teko. VTL, tiedekirjailija Jaana Venkula
10:30 Maatila oppimisympäristönä Living learning mallissa prof. Erling Krogh
UMB, Norjan bio- ja ympäristötieteiden Yliopisto, Oslo
11:15 Maatilaoppimisen vaikutus oppilaisiin pitkäaikaistutkimus tutkija Linda
Jolly UMB
12:00 Kommenttipuheenvuorot YM, OPH/OPM, MMM, MTK, SEED-hanke ja Vihdin kunta
Siirtyminen Annalan puutarhaan (Hämeentie 154)
12:30 Keittolounas ja tutustuminen puutarhaan kahdessa ryhmässä.
13:45 Puutarhan ja oppimisen yhteys. MMM Kirsti Salo, Vihdin malli ja TJ Anu
Ranta, Hyötykasviyhdistys
14:15 Ympäristötaidetyöpaja taidekasvattaja Pauliina Ruokokosken ja Jan van
Boeckelin johdolla
15:30-16:00 Yhteenveto, ulkona oppimisen tulevaisuuden näkymät ja tutkimus
Osallistumismaksu 20 euroa sisältää kahvi- ja ruokatarjoilun.
Ilmoittautumiset 6.9. mennessä osoitteeseen ikivihreamalli(at)gmail.com.
Lisätiedot Kirsti Salo +358 40 7199336.
Järjestäjä: Vihdin 4H-yhdistys/ Ikivihreän mallin ympäristökasvatus
www.ikivihreamalli.fi
yhteistyössä Aalto-yliopiston Taiteen laitoksen ja Hyötykasviyhdistyksen kanssa
Rahoitus: Seminaarin rahoittaa Ympäristöministeriö, Vihdin kunta ja Vihdin
4H-yhdistys
16 September - 15 October 2010
Course: Art and Environmental Education
Aalto University, Department of Art, Helsinki, Finland
Content
Main trends in environmental education of children are studied and presented in
lectures: Joseph Cornell, Earth Education (Steve Van Matre), Richard Louv, David
Sobel, etc. The assignments to the class are to envisage themselves how these
approaches can be altered/enriched/improved from an arts-based perspective.
Learning Outcomes
Through fulfilling the requirements of this course, students should have
acquired a basic, but comprehensive, understanding of different current
approaches in environmental and outdoor education, mainly based on practices in
the English speaking world.
tk0215, Art and Environmental Education, 5 credits
Teacher: Jan van Boeckel. Teaching language English
Time: Thu 10.00-12.00 & Fri 10.00-12.00
Place: PR7010 TKO 7010 Maalaustila TaiK päärakennus
Organisation: Department of Art, Type Course Grading 0-5
Registration starts on 16th of August 2010.
https://oodi.aalto.fi/a/frame.jsp?Kieli=6
More information via: jan.vanboeckel(at)aalto.fi
16 September 2010 - Summer 2011
Course: Environmental Investigations
Aalto University, Department of Art, Helsinki, Finland
A series of lectures, laboratories & workshops, divided into 6
lecture meetings and 6 workshop meetings
(5 ECTS).
Environmental Investigations critically examines the human position and
education within the man-created world. Every unit takes several thematically
related (environmental) works of cultural production as point of origin and
explores from there methods of interpreting the environment. The discourse will
be made in the fields of art, literature, music and dance vs. science,
philosophy & aesthetics placed in historical and contemporary context of ethics,
education, ecology and economy.
Connected to the themes different creative methods of investigation,
communication, interpretation, (re)presentation and experimentation are
introduced. It is important to underline that each human sense allows for a
different spectrum of information and as such results in very different possible
methods.
Other 'discussion cores' are also the making, recording and practising of
(about, in-between, mis-, ...) ‚of-this-time‘ communication nodes/modes within
society such as cultural hacking, bio/geo/city-tagging, flash-mob, memes,
(guerrilla) interventions (e.g. g-gardening, parkours, non-place-claiming...),
augmented reality, etc.
Each theme block (PART 1 & PART 2) will evolve into one theoretical or practical
work (students' choice) that can be done in the 3-week workshop period
intersecting with the lecture period. Methods are open to student's preferences.
PRELIMINARY THEMES:
PART 1: Creation of space and time
1. Concepts of time and space
2. Means of orientation and mapping
3. Negative space and elapsing time
PART 2: Memory ON/OFF // Recording and Play-back
1. Language, letters and libraries
2. Memory, memorial and museums
3. History is written by the winners
Environmental Investigations will continue with PART 3&4 in the spring term and
then deal with perception, 'ordering' of the world and global effects (action
vs. reaction). All students' projects will be presented at the end of the year
in the framework of an exhibition.
TEACHING LANGUAGE: English
TEACHER: Cathérine Kuebel
FIRST MEETING: 16.09. 2010, 13.00-15.00, classroom 7002A, Department of Art
MORE INFORMATION: e-mail: catherine.kuebel(at)aalto.fi
Starting October 2010
MA Art & Environment
University College Falmouth, United Kingdom
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For
centuries artists have interpreted and represented the natural environment.
It has provided materials and subject matter, as well as inspiration and
knowledge.
In recent times – particularly since the growth of the environmental
movement – there has been a dramatic change in our understanding of the many
ways our society impacts upon the Earth. This awareness has galvanised
around the fact that the relationship between humanity and our life-giving
planet is in a critical state.
This change in knowledge has been reflected in contemporary art practice. MA
Art & Environment, at University College Falmouth, encourages a focused
engagement with ecological and environmental issues. Designed to give you
the skills, expertise and confidence to operate as a professional artist in
this critical area of practice, the course will also enable you to develop
strategies and practices that use art as a cultural agent – as a tool for
knowledge, understanding and change.
Students on the course have opportunities to benefit from our relationship
with Cape Farewell, The Eden Project and University of Exeter’s Environment
and Sustainability Institute.
For further
information please contact
Dr Daro Montag:
daro.montag(at)falmouth.ac.uk
+44 (0)1326 211077 |
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course website
www.falmouth.ac.uk
October 2010
Relationship between nature and culture
artistic points of view
Spain - Canarian Islands - Lanzarote - Haria
Session 1: 18.10. - 23.10.2010, Session 2: 25.10. - 30.10.2010
The main objective of the course concerns itself with an exchange
of opinions on the far-reaching theme of the 'Relationship between Nature and
Culture' worked on in an intercultural context and on a European level.
European countries – as represented by the participants - have an enormous
richness of regionally grown cultures that are perfectly preserved in some parts
but destroyed in others. This 'Inconvenient Truth' offers endless material for
discussions. With the exchange of positive and negative examples we can lead
ourselves to broadened insights that can flow back into educational programmes
back in the participant's home countries. The central focus of the presented
course is to emphasise a positive attitude for a symbiosis between 'Nature and
Culture' and using this as a main goal in education on any level. To strengthen
this attitude we will work in Lanzarote with individual artistic practice and
process oriented group work. Pedagogic concepts can be developed as a group
effort and as we progress through the week.
The tools of inspiration will be:
- lectures and group discussions
- practical creative work according to the theme
- excursions of particular relevance to the theme
Together we will discuss questions such as:
- How does the culture and landscape of Lanzarote influence me?
- Why do we find the worst destruction of nature and culture precisely where
people prefer to go for recreation and enjoyment?
- What is my personal position on the matter and how is it tied to my
experiences within my own cultural background?
- How do creative individuals express their thoughts about nature, culture and
tourism and can I connect with these works?
- How do I anchor my objectives within my teaching practice?
- How can I transfer my individually acquired insights to my educational work at
home?
The preservation and sustainable treatment of remaining natural and cultural
goods in all regions of Europe should be further enhanced through the
participants acquired knowledge.
Website
Read course description
7-24 October 2010
The Arctic Circle residency
High Arctic
Where: on a sailing-vessel in the High Arctic
When: Oct 7 - Oct 24, 2010
Program Outline: The Arctic Circle is a series of artist and scientist-led
expeditions to remote and fascinating destinations aboard a specially outfitted
scientific-research sailing vessel. Our expeditions are followed by an
international exhibit schedule.
Expedition: The Arctic Circle 2010 (Oct 7- Oct 24, 2010): Aboard an ice-class,
traditionally rigged, sailing-vessel artists of all disciplines, architects,
scientists will voyage 17 days and nights into the High Arctic.
The Arctic Circle aims to empower the creative individual while fostering the
collaborative. Our emphasis is on providing a variety of opportunities to our
participants through thought provoking programming and professional development
prospects.
www.thearcticcircle.org
Read a blog of
the 2009 expedition by David Rothenberg
23 October - 14 November 2010
Gentle Actions
Kunstnerenes Hus, Oslo, Norway
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Gentle Actions is an
art & ecology happening with an experimental visual framework. It will be an
interactive meeting place which combines the transformatory power of art with
interdisciplinary ecology.
Gentle Actions will function as a social sculpture and gather people engaged in
social transformation within the arts, culture, humanities, social and nature
based academia together with cultural activists and an actively engaged public.
It will be an interactive and collaborative platform that includes dialogues and
lectures, various presentations, workshops, discussions, and an extensive film
program, just to mention a few of the happenings. The exchange of knowledge,
ideas and experience is integral to the project. We hope that Gentle Actions
will generate ideas and concrete examples for new ways of thinking and acting to
face the enormous challenges we are facing on earth at this moment.
Gentle Actions have had financial contributions from the following: Norsk
Kulturråd, Fritt Ord, Norsk Forskningsråd, Kunstnernes Hus, Den Kulturelle
Skolesekken, NBK Vederlagsfondet.
http://gentleactions.wordpress.com/about/
25-29 October 2010
The Seventh International Conference on the Inspiration
of Astronomical Phenomena (INSAP VII)
Bath, England
for all Artists and
Art-Academics with an interest in the Cosmos, Planets and Stars
This interdisciplinary conference will explore humanity's fascination with the
sky, a strong and sometimes dominant element in human life and culture. Scholars
from a variety of disciplines, from the humanities and sciences, as well as
artists, are invited to present and discuss their work on the cultural impact
and inspiration of astronomical phenomena. The list of topics discussed at
previous INSAP conferences is available at the INSAP website.
Attendance is limited to 100 participants.
www.insapvii.org
30 October 2010
Symposium "Naturen i människan" ("Nature in the human being," symposium
partly in English)
Sigtuna (Uppsala), Sweden
Vilken roll spelar vårt biologiska och kulturella arv för vår naturuppfattning?
Hur påverkas vi, fysiskt och mentalt, av olika typer av miljöer? Kan naturen
bidra till hälsa och välmående? Vad är det i naturen som tilltalar oss? Har vi
en nedärvd fallenhet för att tycka om levande varelser och trivas i naturen? Vad
finns det för kulturella skillnader på hur vi uppfattar naturen och handskas med
den? Symposiet kommer att ta upp och belysa dessa och andra frågeställningar som
rör vårt förhållande till naturen ur olika perspektiv.
Medverkande är Henrik Ekman, journalist och fotograf; Caroline Hägerhäll,
landskapsarkitekt; Stephen Kellert, samhällsekolog; Hans Landeström, psykolog;
Ernst Pöppel, psykolog och neurofysiolog samt Laila Spik, samisk kulturarbetare.
Symposiet hålls delvis på engelska.
Symposiet ingår i den mångåriga serie om människans natur som Sigtunastiftelsen
och Agora for Biosystems samarrangerar.
För ytterligare information kontakta Alf Linderman,
alf.linderman@sigtunastiftelsen.se
I samverkan med Agora for Biosystems och Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien
http://www.sigtunastiftelsen.se/Aktuellt+program_2__.html/lid/5/boka/235/
1-3 November, 2010
Conference: Climate Existence
Sigtuna, Sweden
CEMUS and the Sigtuna Foundation welcome you to Climate Existence. What are the
existential aspects of the climate crisis? What do our values and visions have
to do with the current crisis? Who are we as humans in this age of environmental
crisis and what is our responsibility? Do we need to change the way we perceive
nature and our role in society?
Today, most of us know that climate change poses a real and serious threat to
our societies. Information reaches us in the shape of numbers and facts in new
scientific reports and in media coverage of political meetings and international
summits. The message: we need to make deliberate changes in the way we live our
lives in order to minimize our environmental impact.
But the changes proposed are often focused on the implementation of economic or
technologic solutions and a lot of emphasis is being put on the physical and
infrastructural aspects of this new challenge humanity faces. Very little is
said about a need to challenge our minds, mindsets and lifestyles to respond to
climate change or the moral, ethical and psychological aspects of the changes
needed.
This conference will deal with the underlying moral, existential and
psychological aspects of human and societal responses to climate change. This
will be a follow up Conference to a similar successful venture held in Sigtuna
in 2008. The conference is going to run for 3 days and during that time we will
not only be listening to inspiring keynotes and participating in rewarding
workshops but also be listening to poetry, music and enjoying social events.
Keynote speakers
David Abram
David Abram, cultural ecologist, philosopher, and performance artist, is the
founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics. He is the author
of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World
(Pantheon/Vintage), for which he received the international Lannan Literary
Award for Nonfiction. An accomplished storyteller and sleight-of-hand magician
who has lived and traded magic with indigenous sorcerers in Indonesia, Nepal,
and the Americas, David lectures and teaches widely on several continents.
Bill McKibben
American environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, an
international climate campaign. His first book, The End of Nature, was published
in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded
as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been
printed in more than 20 languages.
Harald Welzer
Professor Harald Welzer, is head of the Research Group "Interdisciplinary Memory
Research" at the KWI Essen. He teaches social psychology at the universities of
Hanover and Witten-Herdecke.
Call for papers/essays
You are warmly welcome and encouraged to submit papers or essays for the
conference, preceded in both cases by an abstract. The theme is Climate and
Existence and can include key issues such as; spirituality, power, leadership,
politics, arts, eco-criticism, ethics, education.
www.cemus.uu.se/climateexistence
20-22 April, 2011
Staging Sustainability
Toronto, Canada
How can we produce art
that reflects, celebrates, critiques and advances the cultural life of our
community without contributing to the destruction of the setting that inspires
these artistic endeavours?
The Faculty of Fine Arts at York University (Toronto - Canada) invites proposals
for papers for Staging Sustainability: Arts, Community, Culture, Environment, a
conference taking place April 20-22, 2011.
The conference will provide an opportunity for artists and those who support the
arts in a myriad of ways – from scholars, critics, producers and designers to
policy-makers, industry and government – to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue
about issues associated with the creation of environmentally sustainable arts
practice and performance.
The conference committee welcomes proposals for papers that consider the
relationship between the cultural and ecological aspects of sustainability in
the arts, and may encompass aspects of subjectivity with respect to community
and identity.
Please forward a 250-word abstract of your proposal, including your name,
affiliation, mailing and email address to:Ina Agastra, Executive Assistant to
the Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University,
ffadeanasst@yorku.ca. Submission
deadline: September 1, 2010.
www.stagingsustainability.ca
2011
Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea
Turku, Finland & Baltic Sea
The
Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea invites artists to contemplate the natural
phenomena and their own relationship with the changing sea. Researchers and
other cultural agents are encouraged to join the expeditions, straddling the
borderline between art and science.
Artists who live in Finland or Estonia, irrespective of their nationality, can
take part in this open call. Also Finnish and Estonian artists living abroad may
participate.
The project is intended to spur new works of art and inspire the public to take
part in different creative processes. Artists decide, whether the general state
of the sea is the phenomenon studied, or one of it´s numerous and singular
phenomena and ecosystems will be under their exploration.
One of the key aspects of the marine expeditions is to travel slow, using
methods of transport that only moderately burden the environment. A canoe, a hot
air balloon, a jolly-boat, a marine research vessel or a rowboat are just some
possible means of seafaring, used by artistic sea explorers.
More information about the 1st Curated Expedition to the Total Solar Eclipse:
http://capsulaexpeditions.com
