The ARDES Course in Art, Design and Sustainability
The course is structured around 4 modules:
- Module 1 – Sustainability & Climate change: historical perspective and their relationship with Arts
- Module 2 – Art and Design for communicating Sustainability & Climate Change
- Module 3 – Digital tools for the interactive engagement of audiences with Art and Design
- Module 4 – Call for artists
The following material is available:
- Teacher’s Guide
- Description of each module
- Teaching material for each module
A practical document with an overview of the course and guidelines for its implementation, to support the teachers and complement the curriculum and the teaching material.
Module 1 – Sustainability & Climate change: historical perspective and their relationship with Arts
Lesson 1 Sustainability and SDGs: Historical background and concepts
Topic 1 Sustainability concepts and Circular Economy
Topic 2 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Lesson 2 Sustainability and art
Topic 1 Historical context of the relationship between art and sustainability
Topic 2 Artivism’s digital formats
Lesson 3 Sustainability Assessment Tools
Topic 1 Sustainability Assessment and Ecological Footprint
Topic 2 Life Cycle Assessment
Module 2 – How art can contribute to facilitate dialogue, communicate sustainability and climate change and foster learning
Lesson 1 Art for communicating Sustainability and Climate Change (CC)
Topic 1 Communicating Sustainability and CC through arts and design
Topic 2 Sustainability and CC through the visual communication and animation industry
Lesson 2 Art practice and design projects for communicating sustainability through transformative social, cultural and environmental action
Topic 1 Communicating sustainability through sustainable practices, media and materials
Topic 2 New materialism and ecocentrism: approaches to an integrative Nature
Topic 3 The medium is the sustainable message
Module 3 – Digital tools for the interactive engagement of audiences with Art and Design
Lesson 1 Handling data and big data through creative digital tools
Topic 1: Data and Big data (soil, water, weather, etc.) interpretation and visualisation tools, techniques and methodologies
Lesson 2 Creative digital tools for live communication and interaction
Topic 1: Live interaction tools
Lesson 3 Designing user experiences for increased audience engagement
Topic 1: Data Creative technologies and tools for collaboration, co-construction of cultural meanings, fields, and audience engagement
Module 4 – Call for artists
Module 4 is an optional module where students who participated in the course can present their works and projects that showcase art & design as a medium to communicate climate change and sustainability, and that aim to create awareness and promote action.
The results of the Call for Artists during the project can be seen in the ARDES Exhibition.
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