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ART, ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP – MARCH 30&31 2011 – MNHN
Published on 5 March 2011
Inventory, exchanges and multi-stakeholder reflection to define an action strategy on the theme in France. March 30 – 31, 2011.
National Museum of Natural History.
On March 30th and 31st, the association COAL (coalition for art and sustainable development) organized and animated at the Museum of Natural History the first workshop “Art, ecology and sustainable development” gathering the main European actors and committed artists and about forty guests, professionals of art and sustainable development.
This workshop allowed to share the best European initiatives, to develop cross collaborations and to propose an action strategy on the theme in France. More than 15 concrete proposals came out of it (publication to come on the COAL website www.projetcoal.fr).
This event was funded by the French Ministry of Ecology and benefited from the partnership of the British Council and the Natural History Museum as well as Cultura 21 and Alternative Food and Beverage.
Speakers at this Workshop included:
European actors ” Art, ecology and sustainable development “:
Catherine Bottrill, Associate Director, Julie’s Bicycle (UK)
David Buckland, artist and founder, Cape Farewell (UK)
Claudio Cravero, CuratorPAV – Living Art Park, Experimental Centre for Contemporary Art (Italy)
Christopher Crimes, Director of Domaine d’O
Loïc Fel, Co-founder, COAL la colation art & développement durable (France)
Natasha Freedman, Director Cape Farewell (UK)
Sacha Kagan, founder of Cultura21 (International)
Elena Kountidou, Uber lebenskunst (Germany)
Theresa von Wuthenau, Coordinator Imagine2020 Network (Europe)
Artists and architects :
Thierry Boutonnier, Artist
Helen Evans, Hehe, Artist
Jean-Paul Ganem, Artist
Fernando Garcia Dory, artist and founder of Inland-Campo Adentro in Spain
Marion Laval-Jeantet, Object Oriented Art, Artist
Lucy Orta, Artist
Ministries
Patrick Degeorges, Chargé de Mission, Direction de l’eau et de la Biodiversité, Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
Céline Roblot, Head of mission for sustainable development at the Ministry of Culture and Communication
With also the lighting of :
Jacques Leenhardt, Philosopher and sociologist, Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
Coming soon :
The synthesis of the study realized by COAL “International state of the art & Sustainable Development”.
French / English abstracts
The list of participants
A photo library
The synthesis of the proposals
>> Download the workshop program
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