Week 1 + 2
It means enduring into the long-term future; it refers to systems and processes that are able to operate and persist 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)
For example, ceramic crafts that are local, handmade, made in a small-scale production, using eco-friendly resources.
What is an example that illustrates the practical perspective on crafts (Craft as an Ecological Way of Making)?
(--> 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?
This strategic line emphasises the cultural policy values of continuity and diversity by focusing on concerns with the continuity of cultures over time and the value inherent in global cultural diversity.
What does the first of the four strategic lines of cultural policy for sustainable development mean (i.e., cultural policy to safeguard and sustain cultural practices and rights)?
(--> 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)
Cultural organizations, such as the Klimaatmuseum network not only within the cultural sector but also with multiple civil society, private- and public-sectors organizations, to initiate spaces of possibilities (e.g., with universities, municipalities, train stations, schools).
What is an example of the third way how the cultural sector can initiate spaces of possibilities (i.e. requiring transversal networking beyond cultural networks)?
(--> 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)
This paper focuses on making (beyond binaries of craft and manufacturing), and potential future research agendas within the context of urgent ecological change.
What is the focus of the paper by Carr & Gibson (2016)?
(--> 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?
This framework proposes an ecologically safe & socially just space in which all of humanity has the chance to thrive.
What does Doughnut Economics mean?
(--> Friant et al., 2020 or Raworth, 2017)
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 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?