ASSiST

Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation

Creating a framework for the methodological empowerment of artists, scientists & practitioners for sustainability in social transformation.

Organizers

ASSiST is organized as a collaboration between:

and in partnership with:

Funders

ASSiST is supported by:
The Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF) as a follow-up project of the Dialogue on Arts, Culture & Climate Change (Beijing, 2008)

and by the Municipality of Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

Members

 

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Blog Posts

One step at a time is good walking

Posted by Lucy Ridsdale on October 24, 2010 at 11:17am

Poems for Gabrovo (they need poems!)

Posted by David Haley on September 3, 2010 at 1:00am

Notes from the introduction to ASSiST 2010

Posted by Oleg Koefoed on August 21, 2010 at 9:14am — 1 Comment

ASSiST 2010 Program

Posted by Sacha Kagan on July 28, 2010 at 4:30pm

About the organizers

Posted by Sacha Kagan on June 28, 2010 at 4:30pm

About the supporters of the workshops

Posted by Sacha Kagan on June 28, 2010 at 4:00pm

LOGISTICS

Posted by Sacha Kagan on June 28, 2010 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Présentation en Français

Posted by Sacha Kagan on May 28, 2010 at 3:30pm

Background & Theme

Posted by Sacha Kagan on February 27, 2010 at 3:30pm

Walking from an anthropological perspective

Posted by David Knaute on May 15, 2010 at 9:30pm

Walking alone and together

Posted by Barbara Lounder on May 12, 2010 at 2:20am

Workshop: Worldwide Heritage Walk - wwwhw-m

Posted by Insa Winkler on May 9, 2010 at 7:32pm

Workshop Session: "Pondering on Pavements"

Posted by P.Radhika on May 6, 2010 at 11:28am — 3 Comments

workshop «Space of Uncertainty»

Posted by Laurent Malone on April 27, 2010 at 10:49am

Forum

Booklet on Walking for download in PDF format

Dear all,As one of the outcomes of a seminar I taught in the past months at the Leuphana University Lueneburg, and as an appetizer for our summer school in Gabrovo, we prepared, with a few students,…Continue

Started by Sacha Kagan in Uncategorized Aug 12, 2010.

For Better Pavements: Public Policy, Citizen's Initiatives & Media

Here are some links to discussions on the need to improve pavements. These would largely be what I have called in the workshop note as citizen-centric perspectives, though interestingly not always…Continue

Started by P.Radhika in Uncategorized Jul 12, 2010.

Articles on Cultura21's webmagazine in preparation for ASSiST

Hi everyone, Please find 3 articles just published on the English section ofCultura21's Webmagazine, at…Continue

Started by Sacha Kagan in Uncategorized Jul 15, 2010.

links to walking projects 12 Replies

I'm collecting some links to projects that involve walking. Not all of them deal with sustainability, but some do. Here are a couple from today:NYT - Pounding the Pavement From Up on a Pedestal…Continue

Started by Fereshteh Toosi in Uncategorized. Last reply by Fereshteh Toosi Sep 7, 2010.

 
 
 

Further reading on walking and on arts & sustainability

Walking in life, art and science : a few examples (Sacha Kagan, ed., 2010). eBook in PDF format to download HERE

Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures (Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg, eds., 2008). Available at: Amazon (Germany) ; Amazon (US)
More info: here

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