Culture in sustainability : towards a transdisciplinary approach
Few can have fully foreseen the success of the idea of ‘Sustainable Development’ when it was introduced to a broad global audience in 1987 by the Brundtland report ‘Our Common Future’. Almost 30 years later, the idea is still increasingly being presented as a pathway to all that is good and desirable in society, widely adopted and frequently called-in-aid. Sustainability is essentially about the future(s) we want. This brings questions about the possible trajectories for a different future(s) and development of humanity. What can be achieved? How to surmount conflicts among competing values? What kind of political subject could emerge capable of making the decisions needed to ensure a better future? How to initiate and manage the sustainability transformation, both locally and globally?
In order to meet many urgent challenges of the present, new modes of thinking and acting are required. It is increasingly agreed that sustainable development as incremental change is not sufficient, but a fundamental transformation to sustainability that concern the human systems as whole, is needed. This calls for a better understanding of the role of culture in striving towards and achieving sustainability.
Investigating Cultural Sustainability (COST IS1007) was a European Union (Horizon 2020) funded research network coordinated by the University of Jyväskylä in 2011-2015. The COST Action with 80 participants representing 25 European countries and wide range of disciplines explored possible roles and meanings of culture in sustainable development. The Final Conference of the Action “Investigating Cultural Sustainability” in Helsinki, 6-8.5.2015 focused on theories and conceptual approaches, policies and governance, and practices and methodologies that explicitly analyse the role(s) of culture(s) in sustainable development. This book is a compilation of the papers presented in the conference.
The topic of the COST Action as well as the conference was broad, covering numerous disciplines, concepts, expertise, theories and concepts, exactly as it was intended to. Rather than giving a thorough idea of the Action or the conference, this book presents a few, very different perspectives on how the idea of culture in sustainability was interpreted and approached, showing the diversity of the issues that have been discussed and are to be taken into account when talking about culture in sustainability.
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Julkaisija
Jyväskylän yliopistoISBN
978-951-39-7267-7ISSN Hae Julkaisufoorumista
1238-8025TOC
- 1 INTRODUCTION, 5, Ljiljana Rogač Mijatović, Katriina Soini, Katarzyna Plebańczyk, Sari Asikainen
- PART 1: CONCEPTS
- 2 ENCHANTING SUSTAINABILITY: From enlightened modernity towards embodiment and planetary consciousness, 9, Hans Dieleman
- 3 CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL LEARNING PROCESS TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY, 21, Philippe Vandenbroeck
- 4 UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY: Connecting sustainability and culture, 28, Nathalie Nunes, Hanna Söderström and Sandra Hipke
- PART 2: POLICIES AND PRACTICES
- 5 CULTURAL PROJECTS, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, AND SMALL CITY SUSTAINABILITY, 45, Isabel Ferreira and Nancy Duxbury
- 6 HISTORIC URBAN LANDSCAPE APPROACH AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN HERITAGE MANAGEMENT, 61, Loes Veldpaus and Ana Pereira Roders
- 7 CULTURE AS EMBODIED PRACTICES: Reproducing nature relation within families in rural Finland, 74, Mari Kivitalo
- 8 INITIATING CRITICAL REFLECTION TO COUNTER SOCIAL PROBLEMS: Applying photovoice in the Baka community of the Dja Reserve, Cameroon, 89, Harrison Esam Awuh and Maarten Loopmans
- PART 3: APPROACHES IN AESTHETICS AND ARTS
- 9 AESTHETICS AS A ‘MIDDLE WAY’ IN SUSTAINABILITY ETHICS, 107, Andressa Schröder
- 10 QUANTIFIED QUALITIES: The limits of valuation of landscape aesthetics through an integrated system theory informed approach, 120, Melanie Steinbacher
- 11 THE ROLE OF ARTISTS AND RESEARCHERS IN SUSTAINABLE PLACE-SHAPING, 130, Lummina Horlings
- 12 ARTFUL EMPIRICISM AND IMPROVISING WITH THE UNFORESEEN: Two approaches in seeking understandings of nature through art, 143, Jan van Boeckel
Asiasanat
sustainability culture social learning process cultural sustainability public participation heritage management historic urban landscape aesthetics artist researchers artful empiricism kestävä kehitys kulttuuri sosiaalinen oppiminen kansalaistoiminta vaikuttaminen heritologia kansatieteilijät perinteentutkijat empirismi
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