Conference: "radius of art" Connecting and catalysing

Connecting and catalysing: Aesthetics, community and ecology toward a culture of sustainabilityWhich situations, which challenges is art playing with, at the crossroads of ecologies,communities, and aesthetics? How does art work as a seismograph andcatalyst of deeper transformations? How can art contribute to sensitise for andunpack the complexities we have to deal with in our lives? Where are the limitsand the challenges for such artistic and cultural practices?Speakers:Davide Brocchi (Social Scientist, Journalist, Cultural Activist; Founder of KulturATTACand of Cultura21; Lecturer at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, thecollege of Bochum, and the Ecosign Academy for Design in Cologne)Michelangelo Pistoletto (Artist, Painter, and Art Theorist, Italy)Shelley Sacks (Interdisciplinary Artist, Director of the Social Sculpture ResearchUnit at Oxford Brookes University, UK)Moderator:Sacha Kagan (Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Theory, Research,and the Arts at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany; Vicepresidentof Cultura21 and Founding Coordinator of Cultura21‘s internationalnetwork)