ABSTRACT
Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability adopts a pluralistic perspective of environmental artistic processes in order to examine the contributions of the arts in promoting sustainable development and culture at a grassroots level and its potential as a catalyst for social change and awareness.
This book investigates how community arts, environmental creativity, and the changing role of artists in the Polis contribute to the goal of a sustainable future from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives. From considering the role that art works play in revealing local environmental problems such as biodiversity, public transportation and energy issues, to examining the way in which artists and art works enrich our multidimensional understanding of culture and sustainable development, Form, Art and the Environment advocates the inestimable value of art as an expressive force in promoting sustainable culture and conscious development. Utilising a broad range of case studies and analysis from a body of work collected through the international environmental COAL prize, this book examines the evolution of the relationship between culture and the environment.
This book will be of interest to practitioners of the environmental arts, culture and sustainable development and students of Art, Environmental Science, and International Policy and Planning Development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Metamorphosis: art and the environment
part |2 pages
Part II Deciphering emerging forms
part |6 pages
Part III Experiencing the living and arts transformation
part |4 pages
Part IV The actors of the art-ecosystem
part |2 pages
Part V Re-embedding forms: a transformed public
part |2 pages
Part VI Markets to micro-utopias: contextualising values