Co-creation and Mythmaking

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I recently found some quite inspiring videos from the Burning Man Festival. Even more inspiring was the their background. To me this is a quite special and beautiful way of communicating new and old insights: Mythmaker is about the ancient arts of storytelling, about theatre and circus and about sustainable living.

The mission of Mythmaker: To create, integrate and perform a new cultural mythology. To live and inspire a new dream, which empowers the individual, community and culture to co-create a sustainable future for all life.

I like their commitment and I like their creativeness. I personally would like to communicate the demystification of one or the other myth, but that’s a question of content, I guess…


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Shifting the paradigm in Berlin: Art, Ecology & Education

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

‘Art, Ecology & Education provides pathways to an integrated and sustainable way of living. We participate in the development and integration of an ecologically conscious and systemic worldview.
Using a holistic and transformative approach in our work, we support individuals and groups in the process of transition towards a life sustaining society.’

Upcoming workshops (in german and english):
12+13 July CHANGE - a different worldview for sustainable living
20-24 August ‘EFTERFESTEN Gathering for Sustainability’, Sweden
3-7 September SHIFTING TERRAIN - dancing new ways of perceiving
20+21 September PERMACULTURE - the Basics

Next AEE Evening at the HUB, Berlin:
9 July, 8pm, CSA / Community Supported Agriculture - Conscious consumption one step ahead

Art, Ecology & Education (www.art-ecology-education.org) works as international, intercultural consortium based in Berlin.

Participate in shifting the paradigm / feel free to get in touch!


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Art meets Ecology meets People: The Global Oneness Project

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Check them out!

The Global Oneness Project is a web-based video initiative exploring how the simple notion of oneness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.

We’re traveling the globe interviewing creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the fundamental understanding that we are all connected and thus bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world. Our living library of films is available for free from our website or on DVD for events and educational use.

We are committed to documenting what is being born during this time of planetwide transformation. While we are confronted with unmistakable signs that our current way of life is no longer sustainable, inspiring and innovative people and programs are blossoming in all areas of our collective society. From a pay-it-forward café in Ahmedabad, to a youth program that brings African wisdom to Los Angeles, from the General Secretary of the Andean Nations, to the spiritual guardian of Ayers Rock, our film subjects live and work with many of the following values, attitudes, and beliefs:

* We are responsible to each other, the earth, and future generations.
* There are enough resources for us all, if we share.
* Free exchanges of information allow for greater, collective creative potential.
* Love, care and compassion have the power to transform the fabric of society.

We hope that by showing the diverse ways oneness is expressed—in the fields of sustainability, conflict resolution, spirituality, art, economics, indigenous culture, and social justice—others will be inspired to create solutions to personal and community challenges from their own lived understanding of oneness.

www.globalonenessproject.org


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The Watercourse Way - Tao Te King

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Recently found a great website with A LOT of translations of the Tao Te King.

Click here!

If you want a suggestion: Check this one from Stephen Mitchell.

And if you are german: Hier ist die Übersetzung von Stephen Mitchells Übersetzung…

Enjoy….!


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Life is Rhythm is Dance: The Afro-Cuban Rumba

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

I would argue that a sustainable community culture would need to integrate ingredients as subtle and diverse as the ones to be found in afro-cuban rumba.
Complexity of rhythm, interdependance, improvisation and spontaneity, creative expression…all of that stuff is being lived in performing an afro-cuban rumba.

And how did Ravi Shankar say: ‘The highest aim of music is to reveal the nature of the universe.’ Eso es!

Enjoy!

If you want more info on Afro-Cuban Rumba you’ll find it here (a beautiful blog).
More info on Afro-Cuban Culture you will find here (Afro Cuba Web).


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Totnes, Sustainable Makers Talk at Bogan House

Friday, March 7th, 2008

‘An exploration of craft, design and the aesthetics of sustainability‘… das ist das Thema einer kleinen Veranstaltung gestern Abend im Bogan Haus, Totnes. Diavortrag von Toni Spencer, Schumacher College und Mitbegründerin von Sustainable Makers, einem Zusammenschluss von lokalen Handwerkern und Kunsthandwerkern im Rahmen der Transition Towns Bewegung. Anschliessend läd sie dazu ein, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und Fragen zu stellen. Im Thema selbst und in der Art wie ‘das Publikum’ reagiert, erzählt und diskutiert liegt eine Selbstverständlichkeit, die wir nicht gewohnt sind. Diskutiert wird nicht darüber, ob und warum wir unseren Lebensstil und unser Bewusstsein ändern müssen, sondern darüber, wie wir das tun können, welche Möglichkeiten es gibt, welche Ideen und Visionen, welche vorhandenen Infrastukturen, welche erst noch gedacht und erschaffen werden müssen und darüber, wo Hindernisse und Herausforderungen im bestehenden Bewusstsein, Verhalten und Gesellschaftssystem liegen.

Das alles unter dem Aspekt von einem kreativen Umgang mit den Konsequenzen von Peakoil, Climate Change & Co., und einem künstlerisch-ästhetischen Anspruch an Design. Ein interessanter, schöner und wichtiger Trend an britischen Kunsthochschulen: es geht immer mehr darum, selber in die Erfahrung des Machens zu gehen und anderen Erfahrungen zu ermöglichen, das Produkt ist nicht mehr Fokus der Ausbildung und des Designs! Auch wandelt sich die Bedeutung von dem, was Design ist und leisten kann: inzwischen wird der Prozess designed und nicht das Produkt, soziale und umweltpolitische Vorgänge und Zusammenhänge sind Thema, nicht nur rein ästhetisch-künstlerische….Spannend.

Read more!


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This entry is part 4 of 11 in the series SOS on Tour

Learning from a potato perspective

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

potatoperspectiveSee, the thing is: I like gathering things I consider beautiful. These ‘things’ can be objects or images I saw, thoughts I found, ideas, activities, whatever. And then I like to go and share what I find…This project by Ã…sa Sonjasdotter is many things at the same time: It is about art and activism, about self-empowerment, about agriculture (past and future), about the beauty of diversity, about the beauty of people, about questions of sustainable living and cultivating, about the preservation of indigenous knowledge and culture, about europe and regulations, about personal experience, engagement and learning…you name it.

I find her work with this project deeply inspiring, educational and beautiful.

Now you take a look (www.potatoperspective.org).


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