Dialogue on Arts, Culture & Climate Change

Dialogue on Arts, Culture & Climate Change

Beijing, China 9-12 October 2008

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SCHEDULE

Please find below the detailed schedule of the 3 days event.
In Beijing you will be receiving a programme booklet with the last updated information.

9 October

10.00 – 16.00 arrival of (invited) participants – check in Yan Xiang Hotel
16.00 Meet up with moderators and speakers in the hotel lobby of the Yan Xiang Hotel Address: A2 Jiang Tai Rd, DongZhiMenWai, Beijing)
18.00 participants meet up for the registration in Hotel lobby
18.30 informal introductions & dinner
Venue: Pure Lotus (situated in Holiday Inn Lido Hotel – opposite to Yan Xiang Hotel) Address: Jiang Tai Road, 3rd Floor (Corner Jichang Road) tel. 010 64376288

10 October ‘INFORM’

Public forum: Dialogue on Arts, Culture and Climate Change

Venue: Central Academy of Fine Arts – Academic Lecture hall (Dian Jiao Xue Shu Bao Gao Ting) entrance at East gate
Address: No 8 Hua Jia Di Nan Street, Chaoyang district 100102 Beijing
No registration – free admission

with simultaneous translation

08.40 meeting in the Hotel lobby – transport by bus to CAFA

09.00 Official Opening Ceremony

Opening speech by Amb. Lu Yong Shou, ASEF Governor to China
Speech by Prof. Tan Ping, Vice President of CAFA
Speech by Eric Messerschmidt, Director of DCI
Introduction to ASEF and to project by Jean Anes, Director Cultural Exchange ASEF

09.30 Conference Session 1

Climate: Perceptions and perspectives
How do we perceive climate and its changes from a social and artistic perspective?

Moderator: Olaf Gerlach (Denmark)
09.35 Julien Knebusch (France/Germany) “Outline of a phenomenology of climate”
09.55 Zhu Qing Sheng (China) ‘On the relationship between man & nature in contemporary art’

10.15 Shanta Singh (India)

10.40 Moderated Q & A session
11.15 Presentation of the “Beijing Flower of Sustainability” residency with Insa Winkler, Oleg Koefoed and CAFA students from Studio 10

12.15 Presentation by ASEF Alumni “A climate for Change?” awarded artist’ Petko Dourmana and Andreas Siagian

12.30 Lunch at CAFA Cafe

13.30 Exchange Session
Visit to the exhibition “Look at the Climate” and exchange with the Experimental Art Department CAFA students

15.00 Conference Session 2
Climate Change: facts, impact and actions

Moderator: Marco Gemmer (Germany)

15.00 Prof. Klaus Fraedrich (Germany) About climate change facts

15.20 Jiang Tong (China) About impact on climate change

15.40 Dr Piotr Matczak (Poland) “Coping with Climate change: about actions”

16.00 Moderated Q & A session (15 min)

16.00 Conference Session 3

Climate for Change: Sustainable and Creative Solutions - How does climate change affect our basic needs (food, shelter, mobility and clothing) and which sustainable solutions are we looking for?

Moderator: Sacha Kagan (France)

16.00 Carole Collet (UK): “Textile Futures”
16.20 Shirley Soh (Singapore) :“Food & art’
16.40 Toshiro Ikegami (Japan) : “Sustainability and Cities”
17.00 David Haley (UK) : “The art of becoming, questions of climate change, ecology and mobility”

17:20 Moderated Q & A session

17.40 Conclusions by Tapio Makela (Finland) and Shanta Singh (India)
18.15 Closing ceremony

19.00 Joint dinner (by invitation)

Venue: Tie Man Lou (walking distance)

21.00 Transportation to the hotel by Bus (optional)

11 October ‘EXCHANGE’

WORKSHOP DAYS: Dialogue on Arts, Culture and Climate Change
Venue: Cave @ 798 factory
Address: E02
0-16, 798 Art District Beijing (Upon invitation only)

08.45 Meeting in the Hotel lobby – transport by bus to Cave Cafe

9.00 Coffee tea break

9.30 Welcome and orientation to the weekend.

10.15 Introductions to each other, and to the themes of Food, Mobility, Shelter and Clothing

11:00 World Café Style discussion begins

Topic One: Exchange about relationship to climate change

Question: What is your relationship to climate change?

12.30 Buffet Lunch at the Cave Cafe

14.00 World Café style continues with

Topic Two: Exchanging about work

Questions:

What are you doing? (it may or may not currently relate to climate change!)

How are you doing it? (What resources, methodologies, perspectives are you using? Who do you work with?

Why are you doing it?

15.15 Break

15.30 World Café style continues with

Topic Three: Exchange about experiences of working across boundaries

Question: What are your experiences of working across boundaries of culture, identity, profession and/or mindset?

What the opportunities of doing this in relation to climate change?

What are the challenges?

16:30 Interactive session to debrief day, and gather together key themes.

17.30 Formal summary and preparation for Day Two

18.00 End Session

20.00 Joint Dinner and informal exchange opportunity.

Venue: Hutong Dali, N.67 Xiaojingchang Hutong, Gulou Dongdajie Tel: 010 84041430

22.00 Transportation to the hotel by Bus (optional)

12 October ‘IMAGINE’

Venue: Cave @ 798 factory

Address: E020-16, 798 Art District Beijing (Upon invitation)

08.45 Meeting in the Hotel lobby – transport by bus to Cave Cafe

9.00 Coffee tea break

9.30 Introduction to Open Space and theme of day: Collaboration and Climate Change followed by Open Space Market Place.

09.45 Open Space Session One

10.45: Open Space Session Two

11.45 Interactive Exercise to share experiences of sessions. Second Open Space Market Place

12.30 Buffet lunch at the Cave Cafe (optional open space sessions and/or gallery expeditions)

14.30 Open Space session Three

15.45 Break

16.00 Structured whole group exchange of material from sessions, and exchange of next steps.

17.30 Formal summary and conclusions

18.00 End Session

19.30 Joint Dinner

Venue: Unique Restaurant at 798 Factory

[Timings are indicative only and may change subject to the needs of the group]

13 October

08.30 Meeting in the Hotel lobby – transport by bus to Global Village Yan Qing

10.30 introductions to the work of Global Village; walk through the Education centre sourrandings

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Environmental games and discussions

15.30 Transportation back to Beijing

17:30 Arrival in Beijing

19.00 Dinner (optional)

One Response to “SCHEDULE”

  1. 1
    Jane:

    Protecting enviroment is our longterm mission. Design or art is our career. It seems we are absolutly in the same team. Share some projects and hope u will like.

    The posters we did for WWF:
    http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5fc403e60100cjk7.html

    The educational cooperate with GREENNOVATE for EARTH DAY:
    http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5fc403e60100cjk5.html~type=v5_one&label=rela_prevarticle

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The Dialogue on Art, Culture & Climate Change is an investigation into the role of culture and the arts in the cross-cultural dialogue on climate change between and in Asia and Europe. The project gathers 50 Asian and European artists, designers, architects, cultural practitioners, environmentalists and scientists. Read more!

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