Week 1 + 2
It means enduring into the long-term future; it refers to systems and processes that are able to operate and persist on their own over long periods of time. Often, three interrelated dimensions are mentioned: ecological, economic, and social.
What is sustainability?
(--> see Robertson, 2017)
It can be a trade or profession, a product or artefact, culture, process of skill and craftmanship.
What is a definition of "crafts"?
(--> Väänänen & Pöllänen, 2020)
In the first wave, art is focused on raising awareness. In the second wave, art offers a plurality of meanings and focuses on co-creation.
What two waves of climate-related art exist?
(--> Galafassi et al., 2018)
It consists of interconnected elements, is complex, and it can maintain its stability or shift.
What is a system?
(--> Kagan (2011:96-101), Robertson (2017; seminar 1)
The mandatory readings and weekly slides and course materials.
What should we study before the exam?
1. Sustainability through the arts/culture. 2. Sustainability in the arts/culture. 3. Sustainability of the arts/culture.
What are the three main relationships between sustainability and art/culture? / “Through-in-of triptych”
(--> see Power, 2021)
Practical, epistemological and ontological.
From which three perspectives can you interpret the crafts?
(--> Zhan and Walker, 2019)
(1)Imagining futures, (2)Adaptation strategies, (3)Climate practices.
What three key imaginative framings of climate change do the arts engage in?
(--> Yusoff & Gabrys, 2011)
There are at least seven ways how to do that, e.g., (1) Looking for the big picture & root causes.
How to be a systems thinker?
(--> Kagan, 2011:99-100)
My ID and ERNA account information and any other required things that are communicated to me via the Exam Office.
What do we need to bring to the exam?
1. Sustaining cultural practices and rights, 2. Greening the operations, 3. Raising awareness and catalysing action, 4. Fostering global ecological citizenship.
What are the primary objectives of the four strategic lines of cultural policy for sustainable development?
(--> see Duxbury et al., 2017).
Cumulative experiences of making & tacit, embodied knowledge -> genesis of a particularly materially-sensitive disposition -> makers might be particularly well-placed to perceive the affordances of material things.
What is a maker-habitus?
(--> Collins, 2018)
(1) Grounding spaces of possibilities in artistic inquiry; (2) Involving (new) audiences to become participants in creative processes; (3) Requiring networking beyond cultural networks.
How can the cultural sector initiate spaces of possibilities?
(--> Kagan et al., 2022)
This framework open ups and dimensionalizes evaluations and reflections on creative practices and societal transformations, especially in a context of sustainability.
What is the '9-dimensions-tool'?
(-> Vervoort et al., 2024)
Things such as: an engaging opening, a clear structure, visual aids, a connection to the audience, and practice.
What makes a good presentation?
Reformist circular society; Transformational circular society; Technocentric circular economy; Fortress circular economy
What are the four circularity discourse types?
(--> Friant et al., 2020)
(1) Making beyond binaries of craft and manufacturing; (2) The social life of making; (3) Acknowledging industrial cultures, workers & capacities amidst climate change
What are the three perspectives on rethinking making?
(--> Carr & Gibson, 2016)
This guide focuses on the efforts of artists, material responsibility and offers recommendations for good, better and best practices.
What is the ‘Eco Material Guide to Art Production’?
(--> Weintraub, 2018)
At the start or design phase of a creative practice or funding call: as building blocks for a theory of change or during or after creative practices are completed to make sense of case studies, interview, survey data.
When can you use the 9 dimensions tool?
--> (see Vervoort et al., 2024)
27 October 2025 at 9:30-12:30
When is the exam?
For example, Doughnut Economics and Cradle to Cradle are part of this Circularity discourse type.
What is an example of the "reformist circular society" discourse type?
(--> Friant et al., 2020)
Tension 1: Pointless playing vs. sustainability?; Tension 2: Do people have equal access to tools, learning, information?
Maker movement and makerspaces, what elements of critique can be identified?
(--> Collins, 2018)
The report has a narrative of “art of zero”, “net zero”, “reducing” and less on a positive framing. It focuses on transportation and energy, and more areas and indicators need to be included.
What are the shortcomings of the "The art of zero" report?
(--> Bottrill et al., 2021)
No, not all necessarily. The tool is meant to be used in a qualitative, contextualized & reflective manner.
Do users need to engage with all of the dimensions of the "9 dimensions tool"?
--> (see Vervoort et al., 2024)
A little dog, a hamster, and Steve Carell.
Which giphys were used on the "looking back", "learning objectives" and "see you soon" slides in the last weeks of the course?