Tag: Philipp P. Thapa

  • SERI conversation: “Green art and artistic freedom” – RE-IMAGINE project closing conference

    SERI conversation: “Green art and artistic freedom” – RE-IMAGINE project closing conference

    How free is artistic and cultural practice when it ties itself to a cause, such as sustainable development? How can artistic and cultural activists avoid moralism? This 45-minute interactive session engages participants in a reflective conversation on their roles, means, and responsibilities. Philipp P. Thapa is a SERI Fellow and the principal investigator for The…

  • SERI conversation: “On time: A conversation while getting there” – The Big Green Un-Conference at Homo Novus Festival 2025, Latvia

    SERI conversation: “On time: A conversation while getting there” – The Big Green Un-Conference at Homo Novus Festival 2025, Latvia

    What is time? How does it work? What do different answers mean for the way you live your life, and for the way we make our world together? On the train to Ķemeri, we’ll take some time to rattle our conceptual frameworks. Our philosophical group discussion will help you be ready for the experiences that…

  • SERI talk: “Imagined longevity as a tool for long-term thinking” – Utopian Studies Conference USSE 2025, Valencia

    SERI talk: “Imagined longevity as a tool for long-term thinking” – Utopian Studies Conference USSE 2025, Valencia

    25th Conference of the Utopian Studies Society EuropeAging, Intergenerational Relationship, and Utopia1–4 July 2025, Valencia (Spain) SERI will be represented by Philipp P. Thapa with a contribution based in the context of The Big Green project and his previous work on utopian thinking in the environmental movement. Abstract Imagined longevity as a tool for long-term…

  • SERI talk: “Use your imagination” – ISEE-Degrowth Conference 2025, Oslo

    SERI talk: “Use your imagination” – ISEE-Degrowth Conference 2025, Oslo

    The 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and the 11th International Degrowth Conference will take place jointly in Oslo, Norway, 24–27 June 2025. The academic programme is preceded by a Degrowth Movement Assembly on the 23rd and accompanied by a rich social programme throughout the week. SERI will be represented by Philipp…

  • Public seminar: “Thinking like a beaver: An artistic guide to mountain forests” — with Anna Siekierska, Poland

    Public seminar: “Thinking like a beaver: An artistic guide to mountain forests” — with Anna Siekierska, Poland

    Thursday, 22 May 2025, 18:00 hours CET, via Zoom Subscribe to the Green Academy mailing list to receive invitations and Zoom links to each free live seminar. What connects the mountains with the lowlands? Rivers. Their tangle is like a circulatory and excretory system. It nourishes what is barren, irrigates what has dried up, flushes…

  • Die Fähigkeit, trotzdem weiterzumachen, aber anders

    Die Fähigkeit, trotzdem weiterzumachen, aber anders

    Worum es der Klimabildung gehen sollte, wenn die Katastrophe schon begonnen hat Anpassung genügt nicht. Wir sollten üben, den Gesellschaftswandel mutig zu gestalten. Gedanken zu einer Studie mit BNE-Praktiker:innen. Citation Thapa, Philipp P., and Kim Alina Lüdtke. 2025. “Die Fähigkeit, trotzdem weiterzumachen, aber anders: Worum es der Klimabildung gehen sollte, wenn die Katastrophe schon begonnen hat.” Handprint-Hub (blog).…

  • Public seminar: “Reshaping ceramics: How to transform an art practice for sustainability” – with Yuliya Makliuk, Ukraine

    Public seminar: “Reshaping ceramics: How to transform an art practice for sustainability” – with Yuliya Makliuk, Ukraine

    Thursday, 10 April 2025, 18:00 hours, via Zoom Find the video recording below Subscribe to the Green Academy mailing list to receive invitations and Zoom links to each free live seminar. How can artists reconcile their creative pursuits with the urgent need for environmental sustainability? Ukrainian environmentalist-turned-potter, Yuliya Makliuk, works within a framework she calls…

  • Mini conference: “Community work and expanding creative networks”

    Mini conference: “Community work and expanding creative networks”

    Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 17:00 hours CET, via Zoom Please register in advance:  The Zoom meeting will be open to join from 16:45 hours CET. Meeting ID 83592826566, Passcode 652568. Or use button below. About the event The “TBG Community” mini conference provides insights to the strategic and multiannual EU project “The Big Green”. The…

  • Public seminar: “Sensing earthly entanglements: Teaching food and agri-culture through art” – with Anke Strauß, Germany

    Public seminar: “Sensing earthly entanglements: Teaching food and agri-culture through art” – with Anke Strauß, Germany

    Thursday, 6 March 2025, 18:00 hours Find the video recording below How can we develop sustainable food systems? Open questions like this call for creative ideas. But training programmes for future professionals in fields like food economics have rarely prioritised creative skills. Anke Strauß is one of the people changing this. At Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, near Berlin, Germany, students in a new bachelor’s programme on cultures of food and farming do learn a lot about topics such as soil quality, value chains, or organic production methods as seen from science and technology. But right in the first semester, they also take a course where they explore artistic approaches under Anke’s guidance. Anke begins by asking a different kind of question: What is our relationship to other earthly beings? How are we connected to the earth, how do we embody it? As the course progresses, Anke encourages students to engage with philosophical readings as well as experiment with various artistic methods such as research drawings, collage, poetry, or performance while collaborating with several artists. She teaches students to focus on relationships, between themselves and earth others as well as among co-learners in the group. In this relational key, students practise ways to perceive, consume and value food as that which interconnects body and earth. Anke will talk us through a range of artistic works created by students in her recent course and, drawing on participants’ research diaries, share experiences and insights that occurred in the process. We will discuss Anke’s arts-based teaching concept and what we can learn from its potentials and issues – for training better food and farming managers as well for helping many more of us approach sustainable development as a creative challenge. About the speaker Anke Strauß is an academic researcher and teacher working at the intersection of organisation, art, and ecologies. She is particularly curious about alternative ways of organising, aesthetics and affect as organising forces, and their potential for the transformation to sustainability. Anke holds a PhD in critical management and organisation studies and serves as the head of the executive master’s programme on Strategic Sustainability Management at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE), Germany, enabling participants to lead the transformation in their organisations. She was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (now RIFS, Potsdam) and led the interdisciplinary art-research project “Working Utopias”, which used utopian thinking to develop sustainable ways of organising work lives: www.working-utopias.com Watch the recording Host and organisation Hosted by SERI fellow Philipp P. Thapa. Co-organised by Pro Progressione, Hungary and SERI. Subscribe to the Green Academy mailing list to receive invitations to each free live seminar.

  • Can Education for Sustainable Development Support Climate Change Adaptation Effectively? A Delphi Study of Germany’s Non‐Formal Education Sector

    Can Education for Sustainable Development Support Climate Change Adaptation Effectively? A Delphi Study of Germany’s Non‐Formal Education Sector

    Abstract Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) aims to transform lifestyles and societal structures for a better future. Today, ESD often focuses on climate change (CC) and is widely considered as an important tool for empowering individuals for climate change adaptation (CCA). However, the effectiveness of ESD has scarcely been assessed empirically, especially in non-formal education.…