Dunedin School of Art
Call for Symposium:
Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Mapping the Anthropocene in Ōtepoti/Dunedin: climate change, community and research in the creative arts
Increasingly, the wider creative arts are used to bridge the abstract knowledge of climate change and its lived experience across generations and in local as well as global contexts.
We invite papers and presentations or displays that use creative media to make intelligible and relevant the complex data of climate change and the wider issues of planetary changes characterized by the term Anthropocene. We are interested in community actions, presentations and projects from art, architecture, design and further afield.
The symposium will be presented in the context of community presentations and displays on the impacts of climate change as it may play out specifically here in Ōtepoti/Dunedin and a curated exhibition of artworks.
Suggested themes/conference streams:
Climate change in the context of kaupapa Maori: understandings of kaitiakitaka and kaupapa Māori in the context of Te Ao Māori
Mappings, presentations and artworks that engage embodied understandings through the range of senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, proprioception)
Scalar connections such as the global and the local; generational differences; socio-political contexts
Generational differences
Climate literacy
Future living skills
Ecosystems, biodiversity and extinctions
Waterways
Urban growth
Food and energy resilience
Community actions
Art/science/Sci arts debates
New economic and political models
Dates: Friday September 25 – Sunday September 27 2020.
Venue: Dunedin School of Art and Otago Polytechnic | Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin Ōtepoti
This conference is presented by the Dunedin School of Art and the College of Art, Design Architecture and Business in association with the 150th anniversary of the Dunedin School of Art and its roles in the histories of the wider creative arts in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Download the template for the symposium abstract here >
For more information or to submit abstract please contact Bridie Lonie.
The abstracts, conferences and subsequent publications will be peer reviewed.
Deadline for abstracts is 30 April.