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Inviting the unforeseen: a dialogue about art, learning and sustainability

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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by N Eernstman, J Van Boeckel, S Sacks, Misha MyersMisha Myers
To effectively grasp and address sustainability challenges, this chapter argues that we need to expand our predominantly logocentric and linear ways of knowing with more presentational, embodied and sensory means. The chapter traces an exploration of this position through a dialogue between four academic, artistic practitioners. It proposes the integration of art in (learning) processes for sustainability as a means to hold ambiguity, embrace the unknown and move ahead despite uncertainty. Art is introduced as a process that inherently and purposefully accepts and deploys (rather than minimizes) the latter elements. The authors subsequently touch upon a range of features of artistic processes that foster the emergence of these qualities: i.e. imagination, connection, embodiment and estrangement. Some of which might inspire educators, academics, decisionmakers and activist to adopt a more aesthetic, connective mode of experiencing, thinking and doing, thereby generating conditions that allow for active, connective and imaginative making instead of routinely adopting the ready-made. © Wageningen Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 2012.

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Chapter number

12

Pagination

201-212

ISBN-13

9789086862030

ISBN-10

9086862039

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1.1 Book chapter

Extent

31

Editor/Contributor(s)

Wals A, Corcoran P

Publisher

Wageningen Academic Publishers

Place of publication

Wageningen, The Netherlands

Title of book

Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change

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