beijing bound

This Sunday I will be leaving awhiworld for China to facilitate the Dialogue on Art, Culture & Climate Change. This is an investigation into the role of culture and the arts in the cross-cultural dialogue on climate change between and in Asia and Europe. The project gathers together 50 Asian and European artists, designers, architects, cultural practitioners, environmentalists and scientists to exchange across boundaries of discipline, culture and geography. I am facilitating on behalf of Foam, Brussels. http://www.culture360.org/artandclimatechange

return from luminous green

Singapore was a great success. Human rights activists, artists, politicians and scientists came together to discuss topics close to their hearts including: games and sustainability, saturation, frugality, is zero no thing?, ear cleaning, luxury emissions versus survival emissions and a sitting on grass protest. To get a taste of this and the masses of other great content go to:

http://lib.fo.am/luminous/panel_2008

http://lib.fo.am/luminous/workshop_2008

http://lib.fo.am/luminous/luminous_green_notes

http://lib.fo.am/luminous/workshop_2008_introduction

http://luminousgreen.org/

for photos:

http://flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157606498018873/

for some individual interviews by Andrea Polli:http://lib.fo.am/luminous/tell_your_climate_change_story

and a link to a great blog by a local activist Seelan Palay who I met at the gig:

http://singaporeindianvoice.blogspot.com/2008/06/seelan-palay-i-am-in-total-disagreement.html

luminous green singapore

How do you grow a human world, that is enlightened, imaginative, electrified and most importantly – living in a fertile symbiosis with the planet?

FoAM (Belgium), are yet again calling on the creative sector to enrich the public debate around environmental sustainability, ethical living, eco-technology and design through Luminous Green http://www.luminousgreen.org/.

The workshops (on the 30th and 31st July) are nestled within the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2008)

http://www.isea2008singapore.org/index.html

and are designed to encourage transdisciplinary discussions and collaborations between people from all walks of life, including artists, designers, academics, activists, social entrepreneurs, economists and policy-makers.

Maja, Nik www.fo.am and myself will be facilitating/producing

...take a look:

http://www.isea2008singapore.org/conference/conf_workshops.html#luminous

http://www.isea2008singapore.org/conference/conf_panels.html#maja