key topics of exploration:
- an expanded view of ‘capital’ and of art
- an emphasis on joined up thinking and practice
- an understanding of the connection between inner and outer work, between imagination and transformation, and the need to explore how we can become ‘agents of change’
- a perception of crises as opportunities for consciousness
- an exploration of different forms of ‘knowing’
- a view that the ecological crisis is not just about the environment out there
- a recognition of the connection between aesthetics and ethics: between imagination, the experiential and our ability-to-respond
- the connection between freedom and responsibility
- the relationship between the individual and new forms of viable community
- the poetics of imagination and connective aesthetics
- creative strategies of engagement and practice-based research
- historical and philosophical studies related to Joseph Beuys, Rudolf Steiner, Goethean methodology and other phenomenological thinkers and approaches
- ‘internal mobilisation’ and approaches to overcoming denial
- reflections on activism, new social movements and radical change
- a focus on experiential knowing and related phenomenological practices
- social sculpture as an enquiry into the philosophy and practice of freedom
- a commitment to shaping a humane and ecologically viable world
Also, University of the Trees promotes creating spaces to discuss social sculpture and transformative practices
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