'Strawberry Flag' Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio - strawberry beds created in the shape of an American Flag with US army veterans |
School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford UK, 10 to 22 July 2011
In our times of great ecological and social challenge, there is a growing awareness that we all need to contribute to reshaping how we live in the world. But there are many questions - even if we are already active in one way or another. These questions include a concern with approaches to eco-activism:
How can we deepen and further develop our skills and methods of working towards change?
How can we improve ways of engaging and mobilising people that are not yet involved?
How can we better understand the role of imagination in enhancing ecological and active citizenship?
In what way is the idea of social sculpture relevant to this field of work?
This two week workshop in Oxford:
- provides an opportunity to explore the many different ways and levels on which we can be or become better `agents of change´ and how we can deepen our understanding of ecological citizenship
- provides a forum for exploring the importance of imagination in transformative work
- enables participants to develop forms of creative cultural action that relate directly to each of our own life-work situations
- The workshop is embedded in the exploratory practices and research of the Social Sculpture Research Unit (SSRU) and informed by its network of active members and associates. In this sense it also provides an introduction to social sculpture and its role in bringing about a viable world. The programme is led by social sculpture practitioner, Shelley Sacks, head of the SSRU and Hildegard Kurt, who is currently International Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. (See www.hildegard-kurt.de)
Places are limited. Enrollment advised as soon as possible - via the Oxford Brookes website.
http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/arts/details/agents_of_change/
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