Bratislava, 29 March 2022.
A group of organisers, institutions and individuals active in the field of culture, creativity and environmental protection is launching the Year of Climate Care initiative. Year of Climate Care is a project inspired by global environmental movements and the debate on climate change and its impact on society and communities. The project develops the ideas of the European Commission's New European Bauhaus initiative.
The project was initiated by the Goethe Institute in Slovakia and the French Institute in Slovakia and invited as partners Manifest 2020, New Cvernova and the Nasuti Sustainability and Arts Festival, professional organisations Slovak Design Centre and Slovak Chamber of Architects, the association PUNKT, which organises community activities such as the Dobrý trh, and Anténa, a network of independent cultural centres. The foreign partner is the Academy of Fine Arts (Impact Academy), Vienna. Partner organisations will be other respected institutions and organisations that are professionally active in the fields of culture, creation and environmental protection as well as education. This group of cultural organisers and experts will organise a series of cultural and educational activities during 2022 with a view to continued cooperation in the future.
The project programme builds on the initiative of the European Commission and its President Ursula von der Leyen, the New European Bauhaus, and develops the core trinity of interlinked values of sustainability, inclusion and cultural values.
The intention is to support and develop the activities of the creative and educational sector to prevent the negative impacts of climate change in social, cultural and everyday life and to support the transition of society to a carbon-free future, educating about climate change and how to cope with it.
The expected long-term outcome is that the project organisers and partners will create a distributed interdisciplinary platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration between the creative, educational and other sectors.
The primary target audience is creative practitioners, educators and community leaders who can reach their own 'audiences' - students and visitors to cultural events, citizens. All participants will enter into a dialogue about possible climate change actions, initiate and develop their own actions and support networking within Slovakia and the region and international networks.
The structure of the program metaphorically refers to the natural annual cycle in our geographical conditions.
SPRING is dedicated to education, to new professions that are needed for the change process, to new subjects and curricula in schools, to lifelong learning for professionals who can contribute to change.
SUMMER will be a period for the Climate Academy as an intensive place and time for exchange of information, experiences. The focus of the Academy will be on the creative sector, on activities in architecture and design that bring together futuristic yet pragmatic solutions to the challenges of climate change. The programme will include an artistic research residency.
AUTUMN will focus on creators, a period characterised by intense cultural events. The programme will involve creative centres (Antenna network) and will include a conference during the Nasuti Arts and Sustainability Festival.
As a period to think about the year(s) ahead, winter will bring together experts in the field of politics, including municipal and regional, inviting representatives of different communities and activities dedicated to climate and environmental care into a dialogue.
Each programme SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER will include a lecture by a respected personality, an interactive event to exchange experiences and other events.
The three main target groups of the project, which the organizers of the Year of Climate Care project consider important in the process of societal change, are:
Education professionals (educators) = a community of education professionals, formal and informal education
Creators = representatives of the creative sector (creatives) = among them architects, designers, artists, theorists, curators...
Community representatives (stakeholders) = local government representatives, community leaders, political representatives...
The 2022 programme will consist of several parts
A series of events - discussions, lectures, workshops, visits of foreign experts, meetings
Experimental Summer Climate Academy
Artistic research residencies
29 March 2022, 10:00, Goethe Institute Library in Bratislava
Opening press conference / breakfast with the media
Launch of the project website
8 April 2022, Nová Cvernovka in Bratislava
Project launch event
Warm-Up Party
Warm Data Lab, an innovative workshop connecting people from different professions, generations and interests in one topic, for the first time in Slovakia.
Warm Data Labs are group processes that illustrate interdependence and enable people with no prior exposure to systems theory to understand system patterns. Warm Data Labs bring new societal responses to complex challenges. The speaker and moderator of the event will be Nora Bateson (USA), an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. In her practice, she asks the question: "How can we improve our perception of the complexity in which we live so that we can improve our interaction with the world?". During the workshop, we invite project partners and guests to participate in a collaborative process that will not only bring us closer to understanding the need for a mental shift from climate crisis to climate care, but also bring us closer to each other.
Read more: https://batesoninstitute.org/warm-data-labs/
Organized by Year for Climate and O. Z. Punkt in cooperation with Nova Cvernova
May 2022
Open call for artistic research residencies
June 2022
Education and climate: workshop, lecture and other events
Artistic Research Residency
July 2022
Summer Climate Academy
Artistic Research Residency
September - October 2022
Culture makers and climate care: workshop, lecture and other events
Artistic Research Residency
November 2022
International conference during the Nasuti Festival
December 2022
Final project activity with community leaders and policy makers
Antenna, Network for Independent Culture
French Institute Slovakia
Goethe Institute Slovakia
Academy of Fine Arts (Impact Academy), Vienna
Manifest2020
Nasuti, Festival of Art and Sustainability
New Cvernovka
PUNKT
Slovak Chamber of Architects
Slovak Design Centre
Goethe Institute Slovakia and French Institute Slovakia
Institute for Passive Houses
We will invite educational institutions and other organisations to cooperate and participate in the activities: Slovak University of Technology, Technical University in Košice, University of Fine Arts Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and others.
French-German Cultural Fund
EUNIC - European Union National Institutes for Culture
Fund for the Support of the Arts
Concept of the project: Mária Beňačková Rišková, Markus Huber
Curatorial team: Mária Beňačková Rišková, Zuzana Duchová, Markus Huber, Jean-Marc Cassam-Chenai, Michal Klembara, Boris Meluš, Illah van Oijen, Yan Pautrat, Zdenka Pepelová, Georg Russegger, Ľubica Šimkovicová, Nora Vranová, Barbara Zavarská
Collaboration: Zuzana Beniačová, Claire Bikouta, Linda Fintorová, Lauriane Chanel, Paulina Rack
Visual identity and design: Eugen Korda
Linda Fintorová
Linda.Fintorová@goethe.de
Published March 23rd, 2022
