Abstract
This paper reports on and shares the process of starting the Climate Aware Creative Practice Network, a national network of creative practice academics in Australia. The group have come together in order to foster creative practices that are aware of and respond to the challenges of climate change. In undertaking this mission we have had to look closely at ways that we might centre Indigenous knowledge in climate-aware practice and pedagogy, and methods of actively participating in climate justice in order to better understand art’s role in contributing to both issues and solutions pertaining to sustainability (for example, the environmental impacts of art, design and exhibition making). This process has included unpacking and unlearning words such as ‘sustainability’, which while seem to address the issues at hand, do not answer underlying issues of what is being sustained, by who, and how?
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2024 Special Focus—-Art for Sustenance
KEYWORDS
Regenerative Practice, Climate Aware Practice, Visual Arts Practice Methods
