Communities worldwide are critically re-examining their seasonal cultures and calendars. As cultural frameworks, seasons have long patterned community life and provided repertoires for living by annual rhythms. In a chaotic world, the seasons - winter, the monsoon and so on - can feel like stable cultural landmarks for reckoning time and orienting our communities. Seasons are rooted in our pasts and reproduced in our present. They act as schemes for synchronising community activities and professional practices, and as symbol systems for interpreting what happens in the world. But on closer inspection, seasons can be unstable and unreliable. Their meanings can change over time. Seasonal cultures evolve with environments and communities’ worldviews, values, technologies and practices, affecting how people perceive seasonal patterns and behave accordingly. Calendars are contested, especially now. Communities today find themselves in a moment of accelerated and intersecting changes - from climate to social, political, and technological - that are destabilizing seasonal cultures. How they reorient themselves to shifting patterns may affect whether seasonal rhythms serve as resources, or lead people down maladaptive pathways. A focus on seasonal cultures builds on multi-disciplinary work. The social sciences, from anthropology to sociology, have long studied how seasons order people’s sense of time, social life, relationship to the environment, and politics. In the humanities, seasons play an important role in literature, art, archaeology and history. This book advances scholarship in these fields, and enriches it with extrascientific insights from practice, to open up exiting new directions in climate adaptation. Critically questions traditional, often-static notions of seasons; re-interpreting them as more flexible, cultural frameworks adapting to changes to our societies and environments.
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This research paper looks at a selection of science-fiction films and its connection with the progression of the use of television, telephone and print media. It also analyzes statistical data obtained from a questionnaire conducted by the research group regarding the use of communication media.
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In human-controlled environments, areas of wild plants are 'translated' into cultivated landscapes to accommodate social, cultural and economic needs. This article explores indoor, agricultural and (sub)urban landscape in the Netherlands, focusing on the use of plants both indoors and outdoors, and reveals anthropocentric, instrumental and unsustainable practices. The article also presents suggestions for alternative, more ethical and sustainable ways of relating to plants in the Netherlands and beyond. https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/article.php?t=wilderness-plastic-plants-how-might-get-back-wildness https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenkopnina/
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In opdracht van de Provincie Utrecht richt dit verkennend onderzoek zich op de pilot residentie Ways to listen to a river van kunstenaar Nahuel Cano. Hij verzamelt verhalen over de rivier de Vecht (Utrecht) en brengt in zijn artistieke proces verschillende mensen en perspectieven bij elkaar.
In opdracht van de Provincie Utrecht richt dit verkennend onderzoek zich op de pilot residentie Ways to listen to a river van kunstenaar Nahuel Cano. Hij verzamelt verhalen over de rivier de Vecht (Utrecht) en brengt in zijn artistieke proces verschillende mensen en perspectieven bij elkaar.Doel Het doel van het onderzoek is kennisontwikkeling van én tussen kunstenaar Nahuel Cano, Residenties Utrecht en beleidsadviseurs van de provincie Utrecht. Die kennisontwikkeling richt zich op de (sociale) impact van de pilot residentie Ways to listen to a river gekoppeld aan Art Based Research. Resultaten De resultaten van het onderzoek zijn gericht op het vergroten van (beleidsmatige) kennis over kunstprojecten en de sociale impact daarvan. De resultaten en conclusies van het onderzoek geven input voor het beleidsprogramma Cultuur en Erfgoed 2025-2028. Looptijd 01 juli 2023 - 31 december 2023 Aanpak Er wordt onderzoek gedaan via drie expertmeetings. Voorbereidend en aanvullend hierop wordt een verkennend literatuuronderzoek gedaan en vinden er individuele vraaggesprekken plaats. Zo kan antwoord worden gegeven op de vraag: Wat zijn de (beleidsmatige) inzichten van de deelnemers van het onderzoek met betrekking tot de waarde en impact van de pilot residentie Ways to listen to a river, wanneer dit wordt gekoppeld aan de onderzoeksmethode Arts Based Research?
