Hi, Please note the second call for projects for Eco sapiens has been extended to January 31st.
To apply go to: http://intercreate.org/view/eco-sapiens and fill out the online form. Eco sapiens addresses the important issue of the environment from the perspective of active participation in bringing about change. Below is the text of the call. Extinction or adaptation? Evolution or Revolution? What are we facing? The complexity and urgency of the crises of today calls for us to engage together in new ways. Deep shifts in our consciousness may be required for long-term cultural changes to occur. A Call for Expressions of Interest A symposium followed by a residency is to be held late January to early February 2011 in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. The deadline for the initial expressions of interest has passed. A second call for symposium and residency projects is now open and will close on January 31st, 2010. Symposium The SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens symposium will be an event involving individuals from a number of different worlds (e.g scientists, artists, social activists and community change agents, cultural commentators, educators, tangata whenua). Our primary aim is to facilitate connections and foster innovative, and practical solutions to the issues we are facing. Accordingly, a mixture of presentations, discussions, informal exchanges and workshops are planned. Roger Malina will be presenting from France on Open observatories¹, and Te Huirangi Waikerepuru will speak on Maori conceptions of environment. The symposium will inspire and inform the residency that follows, and also provide opportunities for people to collaborate on projects beyond SCANZ. Residency The SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens two week residency is designed for those individuals or groups who would like to work on creative, poetically pragmatic or provocative projects which raise awareness of the issues that confront us, generate connections between people, and with their natural environment, and which grapple with the challenges of individual and collective evolution. Interdisciplinary approaches and the involvement of diverse groups is welcomed. Residency projects can take place in a wirelessly networked botanic garden, along the coastline and with communities. Networked, DIY, or otherwise actively and openly distributed concepts are also encouraged. Project participants are not necessarily required to be in New Plymouth. Best The SCANZ team: Ian Clothier, Nina Czegledy, Maggie Buxton, Grant Corbishley and Trudy Lane. This communication - including any attachments - may contain legally privileged information, and is confidential to the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient you should delete the communication and contact the sender immediately. If you have received this e-mail in error, you must not read, copy, disseminate, distribute or otherwise use or disclose any part of this communication, or any information on matters or persons to which it refers. WITT reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications sent through its network. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
