ARTS 290: Arts Outside the Bounds (A Sustained Environment: Understanding and Caring for Bio-Cultural Diversity): Home

Global Witness is an international NGO established in 1993 that works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses worldwide.

Arts Earth Partnership's mission is to harness the transformative power of the Arts to help create a sustainable future. We do this by working closely with arts & cultural organizations, municipalities, universities and artists on all aspects of sustainable practice and programming.

Green Public Art is a Los Angeles-based consultancy that was founded in 2009 in an effort to advance the conversation of public art’s role in green building.

The CSPA views sustainability as the intersection of environmental balance, social equity, economic stability and a strengthened cultural infrastructure...The CSPA’s activities include research and initiatives positioning arts and culture as a driver of a sustainable society

The environmental justice atlas documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues... The EJ Atlas collects these stories of communities struggling for environmental justice from around the world. It aims to make these mobilization more visible, highlight claims and testimonies and to make the case for true corporate and state accountability for the injustices inflicted through their activities. It also attempts to serve as a virtual space for those working on EJ issues to get information, find other groups working on related issues, and increase the visibility of environmental conflicts.

SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival has celebrated 18 years of inspiring activism through film and art. Join for an all virtual event January 14-24, 2021.

This exhibition of objects sent from around the world explores and exposes BP's actions over the same period. Together, they ask: why does the British Museum continue to work with this corporate criminal?

"Through unsolicited art performances in institutions that accept such sponsorship, we expose the ecological and social devastation that the fossil fuel industry inflicts on the planet, and lay bare the way these cultural institutions actively sanitise the reputation of companies like Royal Dutch Shell."

In 2008, the Arctic Cycle established itself as a pioneer, harnessing the power of theatre to address climate change issues. Over the past decade, we have continued to carve a unique place for ourselves within the artistic and scientific communities, creating a much-needed disciplinary bridge, engaging with hundreds of artists and scientists, and inspiring as many audiences from all walks of life.

The following co-authored account introduces and reflects on the people’s tribunal as a format for examining systemic problems of precarity. Based on the example of Precarity: A Participatory People’s Tribunal, carried out by the Precarious Workers Brigade (PWB) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, UK in March 2011, we make a special reference to this event in an attempt to troubleshoot any future iterations of such an action.

Speculative Energy Futures is a multi-year, collaborative, and interdisciplinary project on energy transition as a necessary response to address climate change. It brings artistic and humanities researchers together with science, social science, and policy experts to investigate the challenges of energy transition.

We combine art, activism, education and research in one organisation. This approach enables us to create unique projects driven by the need for social and ecological justice. Platform’s current campaigns focus on the social, economic and environmental impacts of the global oil industry. Our pioneering education courses, exhibitions, art events and book projects promote radical new ideas that inspire change.