The Arts and Sustainable Development

Current Projects

No Culture, No Future: Developing Strategic Research Frameworks for Sustainability and the Arts Scholarship

Sustainability and the Arts (SATA)
Funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant

Expanding Impact:  Activating Arts and Culture Today

 

Funded by a SSHRC Connection Grant

Arts’ Civic and Social Impact Beyond Covid-19: Researchers in Residence

Reducing The Hope Gap? An Examination of Climate Change Theatre Action Plays


Building a Global Arts and Sustainability Network

Worlds Colliding: A Search for Where the Arts, Education for Sustainable Development and Sustainability Scholarship Intersect

Funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Past Projects

The Goggles Project

In 2005, Dr. Tarah Wright commissioned a two year study investigating Canadian universities’ stances on sustainability. The findings were so provoking and the topic so timely, that we could not let the results simply end up as a bound report sitting on shelves. Thus was born Rethink University and The Goggles Project - a conceptual platform to engage higher education stakeholders in conversations about sustainability. The Goggles Project used a quirky troupe of travelling players who both collected and disseminated powerful thoughts on the role that universities can play in creating a sustainable world. The tour went from coast to coast and visited over 17 universities.

Exploring Art Educators’ Conceptualizations of Sustainability and their Roles in Creating a Sustainable Future
This study aimed to determine how leaders within the art education community at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD) University conceptualize sustainability, what role their institution plays in achieving a sustainable future as well as the barriers that they face in implementing sustainable practices now and in the future.

Playlist of the Planet
This study aimed to determine how leaders within the art education community at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD) University conceptualize sustainability, what role their institution plays in achieving a sustainable future as well as the barriers that they face in implementing sustainable practices now and in the future.

Funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant

A Bibliometric Study of the Scholarly Literature on the Arts and Sustainability/Sustainable Development

Funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Locating and Examining the Grey Literature Where the Arts and Sustainability Intersect

Funded by SSHRC Insight Development

Climate Change Art: Examining How the Artistic Community Expresses the Climate Crisis