Exploring New Ideas, Practices and Alliances ECC 2013 CONFERENCE Berlin, Germany, May 22–24, 2013 Conference Organizers: Commons Strategies Group, Heinrich Böll Foundation One of the most significant impediments to positive social change is the entrenched power of market-fundamentalism as an economic and political paradigm. The prevailing dogma is that only a scheme of individual self-interest, […] read more
by Giuseppe Barbiero ABSTRACT: Affective Ecology is a new branch of ecology concerned with emotional relationships between human beings and the rest of the living world. The basic instinct that guides the evolution and maturation of a well-tuned relationship with the living world seems to be biophilia, our innate tendency to focus upon life and life-like […] read more
University of Kent, Canterbury (UK), 27-28 June 2013 Artscapes 2013 is a two-day interdisciplinary conference aims to provide a forum for academic, policy and practitioner engagement with the relationships between the public and urban art. Artscapes seeks to critically examine the relationship between art and urban places, questioning in what ways urban art can engage […] read more
The sixth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam opens in May 2014 in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. The Dutch landscape architect Dirk Sijmons is the curator and the theme is Urban by Nature. IABR-2014-Urban by Nature claims that we can only resolve the environmental problems of the world if we resolve the urban problems. […] read more