Advisors
Katja Hellkoetter, Sacha Kagan, Angela Liong, Eric Messerschmidt, Tan Ping, Jiang Tong
Facilitators
Maggie Buxton
Maggie Buxton has over fifteen years international experience working as a facilitator, organisational and community development consultant and researcher. Her speciality is creatively enabling people of different backgrounds, mindsets and points of view, to increase their level of mutual respect and understanding. Maggie has a proven track record that includes work with organizations as diverse as the European Institutions in Brussels, grass-roots communities in Latin America, Africa and North East Scotland, and networks of experimental artists and designers. Maggie has a Msc. in Organizational Development and Consulting from Sheffield Business School in the UK, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Studies and Education. She is also trained in a number of leading edge personal and organizational development methodologies. Maggie regularly collaborates, as a researcher and facilitator,with Foam, Brussels, an experimental, and transdisciplinary collective. She is working as a representative of Foam on this project.
Angela Liong
Angela is the co-founder and artistic director of The ARTS FISSION Company, a professional contemporary dance company in Singapore. A significant body of Angela’s works deal with human sensibility in the fast changing urban landscape of Southeast Asia. She makes dance like a novelist to reflect on pulses of Asia and like a journalist to document glimpses of the worlds beyond. Since 2006 she has been researching and exploring on the climate change dance project LOCUST WRATH that includes collaboration with Indonesia dancers and musicians. LOCUST WRATH examines the traditional Asian notion of extreme climate change as divine retributions and search for ancient oracles that are lost in modern times.
Dialogue on Art and Culture & Climate Change is a collaboration of:
The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) advances mutual understanding and collaboration between the people of Asia and Europe through intellectual, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges. These exchanges include conferences, lecture tours, workshops, seminars and the use of web-based platforms. The major achievement of ASEF is the establishment of permanent bi-regional networks focussed on areas and issues that help to strengthen Asia-Europe relations.
Established in February 1997 by the partners of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), ASEF reports to a board of governors representing the ASEM partners. ASEF is the only permanent physical institution of the ASEM process. Since 1997, the Foundation has initiated projects engaging 14,000 individuals from Asia and Europe. ASEF works in partnership with other public institutions and civil society actors to ensure its work is broad-based and balanced among the partner countries.
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) is an informal process of dialogue and cooperation. It brings together Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mongolia, Myanmar, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vietnam, the ASEAN Secretariat and the European Commission.
Project team: Mrs. Katelijn Verstraete, Ms. Jerneja Rebernak
The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) located in Beijing is a leading institution for modern art education in China, the only art academy of higher learning directly under the Ministry of Education, and was founded in April 1950 by incorporating the National Beiping Art College and the Fine Arts Department of Huabei University. The Director of CAFA’s Executive Committee is Yang Li, the President of CAFA is Professor Pan Gonqkai, a Chinese painting artist and art historian. The Director of CAFA’s Academic Board is Professor Jin Shangyi, a well-known Chinese artist. Under the umbrella of CAFA, there are six schools and one college: the School of Fine Art, School of Chinese Painting, School of Design, School of Architecture, School of Humanities, College of City Design as well as School of Continuing Education and the Affiliated High School of Fine Art.
Mr. Tan Ping, Vice President Central Academy of Fine Arts; Mrs. Xu Jia, International office
The Danish Cultural Institute is a non-governmental organization that works with international cultural exchange in a wide range of areas. It promotes cultural exchanges between Danish and Chinese parties and informs about Denmark. It also supports projects that aim at long-term cooperation between Chinese and Danish cultural institutions, artists and other professionals in the field of creative industries and economies. Established in 2005, the Danish Cultural Institute in Beijing was licensed to work with cultural exchange and consultancy, and puts priority on topics which expose Denmark as an innovative and cutting edge nation with a cultural approach funded on encounter and respect. The activities of The Danish Cultural Institute in Beijing range from exhibitions of fine arts to exchange programs for professionals from sectors such as public education and health services.
Mr. Eric Messerschmidt, Director Danish cultural institute; Ms. Pei Yan; Mr. Li Yang; Ms. Bai Xue
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is a Ministerial-level institution mandated to undertake policy and academic oriented research and advice in the area of social sciences and humanities, officially known as the think tank of the Chinese government.
The Research Centre for Sustainable Development (RCSD), one of the research centres under the CASS umbrella, was established in 1997 in response to the need in China for its pursuit to sustainable development, specialising policy related research mainly at national and international levels, providing policy input and advice to the central government through academic and policy related and case specific research activities. In 2005, the Centre was merged with the CASS Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies, bringing in expertise in urban issues. Key areas of research of RCSD include: (1) Economics of Sustainable Development, focusing mainly on economic theory and methodologies for analyses of sustainable development, capabilities and their assessment of sustainable development, strategic and policy analyses of sustainable development. (2) Global Environmental Change and Economic Development, covering issues related to impacts, vulnerability, adaptation to, and mitigation of climate change and its linkages to sustainable development, energy-economy-environment systems and climate change policy, international institutions and global environmental governance, and comparative analyses of sustainable development. (3) Regional and Experimental Studies on Sustainable Development, including applied economic analyses of sustainable development through examination of cases at county, city, watershed and/or enterprise level. (4) Urban studies, including urban planning, urban economy, urban environment infrastructure and other related areas.
Mr. Pan Jiahua; Mr. Wang Mou
The China Meteorological Administration is a Ministerial-level institution under the Chinese State Council. The National Climate Center (NCC) was established in 1995 as a priority program of the Chinese Agenda 21 and is operating under the CMA. It addresses the needs of national economic growth in the changing international climate environment. The NCC operates the Meteorological Service, the official climate modeling and climate research for China. It provides policy advice on climate, climate change and its effects.
Climate change is one of the central problems in terms of living conditions and the national sustainable development. Therefore, CMA has launched the National Center on Climate Change (NCCC) in summer 2008. The Center will further improve climate change science and technology, professional and service levels, and play a more active role of CMA’s reply to climate change in China. At the same time, it will work together with relevant departments from home and abroad, and also strengthen the decision-making and public service functions of climate change.
Mr. Jiang Tong; Mr. Marco Gemmer
Cultura21 stands for Cultures of Sustainability, allowing human social systems to evolve in harmony with one another and with their environment. Cultura21 retains a wide, anthropological definition of culture and thus has a wide range of interests, among which: the arts, inter-culturality, the media, education and other cultural expressions (such as e.g. agriculture and food). The International Network, created in 2007 builds upon the existing national organization Cultura21 in Germany (created in 2005), and fosters the rise of trans-local initiatives and further national networks (in Italy and in Mexico in 2007, Denmark-Sweden-Norway in preparation).
Mr. Sacha Kagan (Network coordinator)
With the support of
ASEF’s contribution is with the financial support of the European Commission