{"id":344,"date":"2013-10-03T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T10:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cf.ac.uk\/environmentalfuturesdialogue\/?p=1"},"modified":"2024-10-09T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:43:15","slug":"1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/environmentalfuturesdialogue\/2013\/10\/03\/1\/","title":{"rendered":"Final network event to be held in December"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making sense of sustainability: Sensing, feeling, talking, reflecting, creating, futuring<\/strong><\/p>\n

An environmental futures dialogue involving artists, environmental thinkers, and members of the public<\/strong><\/p>\n

6-7 December 2013, Wales Millennium Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

During 2013 the \u201cmaking sense of sustainability \u2013 environmental futures dialogue\u201d\u00a0network has brought together artists, academics, and members of the public to experience artworks and performances, and to discuss and reflect upon how it might be\u00a0possible for the arts and social sciences to work collaboratively for a more sustainable future.<\/p>\n

Three previous network events – one in Aberystwyth and two in Cardiff \u2013 have energised and shaped the collaborative work of our network. In Aberystwyth, an arts-led event\u00a0focused on the aesthetics of sustainability, featuring reflections and debates on how art practice can work to create relationships between home\/place, sustainability and the body. In Cardiff, two Philosophy Caf\u00e9 events explored the significance of our emotions about environmental risk and uncertainty about the future. These events drew on interpretive understandings of risk, sustainability and futures developed by social scientists and philosophers which, as a result of the dialogues conducted so far, have been brought into alignment with the creative approach taken by artists and arts\u00a0performers. The notions of risk and sustainability that we have been working with carry meanings that are socially and culturally transmitted, affectively laden, and everyday as well as\u00a0 scientific. Such meanings are meanings that matter because of the way they make visible and tangible anticipated (but uncertain) futures. They express personally and collectively significant ways of responding emotionally to evidence about environmental destruction, possible dangers, threatened futures, expectations and prospects and other possibilities. As such, they can be considered as cornerstones of our identities.<\/p>\n

Our final event will continue the collaboration at the heart of the project in ways that will allow us to reflect on key questions that have arisen so far and thus to deepen existing environmental\/ecological arts-social science connections. The event is designed to\u00a0optimise spaces for reflection upon the results of earlier network activities, in particular insights about the \u201conto-formative\u201d effects of how we sense and make sense of the\u00a0uncertain futures we face and what it might mean to live more sustainably while facing them.\u00a0Our senses are onto-formative if and when they attune us to our environments\u00a0experientially, affectively and imaginatively as we move in and through the places,\u00a0spaces and localities where we live. Sense-making is onto-formative when there are\u00a0 material outcomes to our ways of producing knowledge i.e. when it impacts upon people in their daily lives, and is taken up by others (government, business, NGOs) in ways that must be publically accountable.<\/p>\n

Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n