The role that the physical environment plays in value creation is changing. Place is becoming an ever more critical role in people’s willingness to come and spend time in a given environment. There are vital linkages between place-making and place maintenance. This session will discuss the emergence …

A pedagogy of attention to the light in the eyes: Environmental education in a new key

Workshop in het aan elkaar beschrijven en tekenen van afbeeldingen van planten, op basis van werk van Karl Blossfelft. Locatie: Groninger Museum.

The setting is the intensive course Art and Sustainability Education that I teach annually as Professor in Art Education at the Estonian Academy of Arts. This time, in the autumn of 2018, I am with ten students and we have gathered for four days in Arbavere, a resort on the periphery of Lahemaa National …

Some of the most striking accounts of the inventive power of imagination come from former prisoners who have spent time in solitary confinement. In these testimonies, they relate how their imaginative capacity enabled them to keep their sanity, even in the most arduous circumstances. Somehow they managed …

At the invitation of the Estonian Academy of Arts, I taught this three day intensive course in Lahemaa National Park in Estonia.

Presentatie van openings-keynote op deze vijfde ClimateExistence conferentie in Zweden

How art can help us in finding connections to the more-than-human world?

Lezing en workshop over wildpainting bij kunstcentrum MK24 in Amsterdam: Met wildpainting laat je het landschap ontstaan door wat je weet even aan de kant te zetten. Ons brein vertelt ons vaak hoe de natuur hoort te zijn, bijvoorbeeld dat de bladeren van een boom groen zijn en de stam bruin. Maar er …

At first, climate adaptation and art may seem very different from each other. But it is precisely a work of art that can add surprising nuances to the conversation about climate change and climate adaptation. We need to broaden our perspective and not just think in terms of practical solutions.