COALITION, 15 years of art and ecology
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The laboratory of sustainable culture at the Nuit Blanche
Published on 15 September 2016
After Scotland in the framework of a workshop “Sols Fictions” in Aberdeen with KFI (Knowing from The Inside); Ljubljana in Slovenia as part of the Summer Lab of the Imagine2020 network and then the Festival Vivant from September 15 to 17 at the University of Paris-Diderot, the laboratory of sustainable culture – 1st session Les Sols – is presented at the OFF program of the Nuit Blanche 2016, on October 1st, with the installation Petrichor, or the smell of the city’s floors.
COAL’s Sustainable Culture Lab
In order to experiment and put into practice a cultural approach to the transformation of territories for the ecological transition and adaptation to climate change, COAL is deploying the Sustainable Culture Laboratory, a collaborative program between the humanities, natural sciences and the arts. After a first year of action research on soils, the LAB is impelling in 2016-2017 “The table and the territory”, the second session of the LAB around sustainable food.
LAB aims to grow a culture of resilience to bring about and embody alternative artistic, scientific and political narratives of Earth transformation. More specifically, it aims to incorporate strategies for adapting to ecological changes linked to climate change into local practices. The LAB’s first mission is to explore crucial sustainability issues through the convergence of disciplines by im- agining collaborative work. To do this, it was conceived as a tool to question and share the conditions of construction of knowledge, both aesthetic, academic and technical, through experiments conducted by artists and scientists of nature and the humanities on innovation fields. Together, they carry out research-actions and design common productions: exhibitions, workshops, meetings, publications and trainings intended to nourish a political and collective dynamic on the scale of the territories.
Practical information
White Night
The work Petrichor by Anaïs Tondeur and Germain Meulemans can be seen from 7pm to 1am in the main staircase of the Lycée Charlemagne
14 rue Charlemagne
75004 Paris
Metro : St Paul (line 1)
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