A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations
SFRH/BPD/115656/2016 UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020 ; This paper argues for an integrative approach to sustainability transformations, one that reconnects body and mind, that fuses art and science and that integrates diverse forms of knowledge in an open, collaborative and creative way. It responds to scholarship emphasizing the importance of connecting disparate ways of knowing, including scientific, artistic, embodied and local knowledges to better understand environmental change and to foster community resilience and engagement. This paper draws on the experience of an arts-based project in Lisbon, Portugal, and explores embodied and performative practices and their potential for climate change transformations. It puts forward and enlivens an example, where such forms of engaging communities can provide new insight into how equitable, just and sustainable transformations can come about. The process involved a series of interactive workshops with diverse arts-based methods and embodied practices to create performative material. From this process, a space emerged for the creation of meaning about climate change. Three key elements stood out in this process as being potentially important for the emergence of meaning-making and for understanding the impact of the project: the use of metaphors, embedding the project locally, and the use of creative, embodied practices. This furthers research, suggesting that the arts can play a critical role in engaging people with new perspectives on climate change and sustainability issues by offering opportunities for critical reflection and providing spaces for creative imagination and experimentation. Such processes may be important for contributing to the changes needed to realize transformations to sustainability. ; publishersversion ; published
Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations
SFRH/BPD/115656/2016 UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020 ; This paper argues for an integrative approach to sustainability transformations, one that reconnects body and mind, that fuses art and science and that integrates diverse forms of knowledge in an open, collaborative and creative way. It responds to scholarship emphasizing the importance of connecting disparate ways of knowing, including scientific, artistic, embodied and local knowledges to better understand environmental change and to foster community resilience and engagement. This paper draws on the experience of an arts-based project in Lisbon, Portugal, and explores embodied and performative practices and their potential for climate change transformations. It puts forward and enlivens an example, where such forms of engaging communities can provide new insight into how equitable, just and sustainable transformations can come about. The process involved a series of interactive workshops with diverse arts-based methods and embodied practices to create performative material. From this process, a space emerged for the creation of meaning about climate change. Three key elements stood out in this process as being potentially important for the emergence of meaning-making and for understanding the impact of the project: the use of metaphors, embedding the project locally, and the use of creative, embodied practices. This furthers research, suggesting that the arts can play a critical role in engaging people with new perspectives on climate change and sustainability issues by offering opportunities for critical reflection and providing spaces for creative imagination and experimentation. Such processes may be important for contributing to the changes needed to realize transformations to sustainability. ; publishersversion ; published
Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations
Bentz, Julia (author) / do Carmo, Letícia (author) / Schafenacker, Nicole (author) / Schirok, Jörn (author) / Corso, Sara Dal (author) / Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA - NOVA FCSH)
2021-01-01
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Art and climate , Arts-based approaches , Climate change , Embodiment , Experiential learning , Imagination , Inspiration , Meaning-making , Global and Planetary Change , Health(social science) , Geography , Planning and Development , Ecology , Sociology and Political Science , Nature and Landscape Conservation , Management , Monitoring , Policy and Law , SDG 13 - Climate Action
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Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations
| BASE | 2021
Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations
| Springer Verlag | 2022
Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations
| BASE | 2021
| Springer Verlag | 2022