art.earth (in partnership with Plymouth University's Sustainable Earth Institute <http://Plymouth%20University's%20Sustainable%20Earth%20Institute> and Science Walden <http://sciencewalden.org/> at Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology <http://Ulsan%20National%20Institute%20of%20Science%20&%20Technology>) invites you to submit a proposal for participation in the forthcoming summit Adorning our new biosphere: how to love the postcarbon world <http://postcarbon.world/> to be held November 7-9 at Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EA, UK. This event is another in a renowned series of international symposia held at Dartington in the southwest of England.

In our emergent post-carbon world, what of justice? what of beauty? What of art itself? Surely the artist’s ability to stir up and question societal thinking, challenge preconceptions, and assert new forms of beauty and aesthetic reasoning must play a role? Part of the argument against many renewable technologies has been on aesthetic grounds, based principally on an 18thC view of an ideal ‘natural’ landscape. Although we need to continue to poke that model with a sharp stick, new technologies are also revolutionising what power generation looks and feels like.

But beauty is more than skin-deep. Climate change is also an ugly scar on a social consciences. The environmental and health consequences of climate change, which disproportionately affect low-income countries and poor people in high-income countries, profoundly affect human rights and social justice. This, too, is familiar territory for artist-activists whose role is to challenge, question, and subvert.

So this is a call to action for artists, designers, engineers and other thinkers to turn their attention to a world in need of a change of argument, one that can adorn our new biosphere not only with aesthetic pleasure but with a beauty of equality and social equity.

The technological argument has been won; now it is time to win our hearts and make the world beautiful as well as clean.

Read more at http://postcarbon.world


TOPICS

This list is neither prescriptive nor proscriptive and is a guid only. Please be free to submit any ideas you feel are relevant to the topic.

resistance and activism
low-tech and hacker approaches to energy generation
the power of community
invisible technologies / visible technologies
role of the artist in community energy projects
energy generation as act of resistance
climate change, radicalism and social justice
art and energy as a metaphor for localism
a postcarbon phenomenology?
a new rural postcarbon sublime
new models for owning energy / ultralocalism
climate change and social justice
artist as technician
artist as non-technician
brokering power; challenging the monolith
large-scale, small-scale, micro-scale
the ir/relevance of art in facing global challenge
(re)claiming beauty
fighting for a new aesthetic
restoration and reclamation: rediscovering lost knowledge
art, heart, mind


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Alex Wanjiku Kelbert & Natasha Mumbi Nkonde
Ellie Harrison




DEADLINE

The deadline for submission is 22.00 BST on Thursday June 7, 2018. We are requesting 250-word abstracts or outlines, which must be submitted through the event website at postcarbon.world/proposal-form/. We are unable to accept any submissions after the deadline.

Read full details at www.postcarbon.world
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