Sustainable Art Research Articles

‘Children see before they speak’: an exploration of ableism in art education

According to Robert McRuer ‘cripping entails radically re-visioning, from committed anti-ableist positions, the taken-for-granted systems in which we are located’. Importantly, this critique enables us to recognize sites of inequality in education and provides tools to create alternative ways of conceptualizing pedagogy. Informed by such theoretical approaches to disability studies, this paper offers a Critical-crip Discourse Analysis (CcDA) of images and text representing art, craft, and design education in England between 2005 and 2011. This analysis indicates that although art education is recognized as significant for all children, limited representations of disabled children and young people can result in their experiences becoming devalued. Descriptions of apparently inclusive educational practices naturalize, prioritize, and reinforce so-called able-bodied/mindedness and fail to capture the benefits of diversity to educative practices in art. This analysis of discourses about art education is therefore an essential step in re-imagining an equitable and sustainable art education with true relevance for all.

The Purity Instinct

The Purity Instinct Joanne Diaz (bio) Keywords poetry, Joanne Diaz Near the end, Ceausescu would only drink juice through a straw.Twice, he was convinced that his hearing had improved: oncewhen he heard the sound of a distant train of his youth;another time when his long-dead mother sang a little-known songin his ear. Other times—orange was especially good for this—he felt his bones straighten, and once, after a tall glassof grapefruit, his arms acquired the strong sinews of his timeas the village shepherd and shoemaker. With prune,his skin became impervious to cold. At a foreign banquetheld in his honor, he went to the balcony, stood in the rainlike a dog, and did not shiver once. On the road, his assistantkept all the straws in a satchel; at home, every drawer was full.On the first of each month, a crate went directly to the kitchenbuilt with the blood of traitors and money from the West.After a childhood of pig fat and sheep's milk, the purity instinctwas strong for Ceausescu. In those final moments, as he sang"The Internationale," his hands cuffed to his wife's, he must have admiredhow clean bullet in its chamber, the singular force of its straight line. Note: This poem is inspired by the Dinner Party podcast "Studying the Food of History's Most Infamous." [End Page 677] Joanne Diaz joanne diaz received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is the author of My Favorite Tyrants and The Lessons, and with Ian Morris, she is the coeditor of The Little Magazine in Contemporary America. She is an associate professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University. Copyright © 2017 The Massachusetts Review, Inc.

Measuring an Organization's Performance: The Road to Defining Sustainability Indicators

This article proposes an integrated procedure to assess sustainability indicators that organizations can use to satisfy international requirements for sustainability. The indicators are related to key aspects of organizations, and their development includes comparing them to the results and policies of various other organizations that are seeking to achieve sustainability. The methodology we used is based on a bibliographic review, and it is intended to: Diagnose the state of the art of organizational sustainability, Provide organizations with tools to perform benchmarking based on the results, and Provide processes to identify best sustainability practices. After benchmarking, organization managers will be able to adjust the methodology to quantify the sustainability indicators that are most suited to their organization's profile in regard to the activities, products, and services that it offers. Critical factors for organizational sustainability are identified and integrated into the systematic approach proposed in this article to assess indicators, communicate results, and make recommendations for corrective action and continual improvement considering the organization's baseline condition (the starting condition of the organization).

The economical significance of ceramic materials aesthetic values in modern architecture

Allah has created several natural materials for us , these marerials are suitable for our Egyptian environment. For examples, we have materials from soil ,from water ,from plants and from animals. We should think how to use such materials in the best way as our old pharoes had done before. The old artist was the first one to use these enviromental materials to draw on the walls and in sculpture. Then he began to use them also in building and painting a lot of beautiful art costructions . In spite of the present advanced tecnologies all over the world ,we should return to sush real Egyptian environmental materials that have lots of special geographical features . We should also look for new methods to decrease the costs and get the most possible benifits of sush special material. Ceramic has a great economic value in addition to its beauty. It can be easily found all around us in our local environment. It is also one of the best materials that are used in coating constructions. It is solid and has no pores,so it is strong enough in front of rains and humidity without being spoiled or destroyed. It also can live long times without having it's attractive colours or its forms changed , So ceramic is one of the best materials that can be appropriate to join all the sides of art , beauty ,function and economics of one construction all together. It also join the construction to the environment around it. As the world all around us now is tendind to return to the enviromental and natural materials,espcially in the field of art, and as there is an interest to practise morphology in all of the art and construction fields, alot of new expressions are used,like : enviromental art,ground art, biological art,green architecture and sustainable art. So I decided to choose ceramic as a material that can be used in the modern architecture as it helps the designer to create and show easily all what he wants to because of its colours, appearance and texture.

Investment Decision Analysis for Public Art Exhibitions

In recent years, China's growing cultural industry has significantly enhanced the region's cultural level and recognized public art and continues to develop the creative industry in various Chinese cities (except Beijing, Shanghai, and Canton). Through large-scale international public art exhibitions, each city in China intends to increase its cultural competitiveness, establish an image, and develop its cultural tourism industry and cross-border cultural exchange. By doing so, they hope to produce a combined movement toward creating a sustainable cultural art industry. This study examines the strategies undertaken to conduct the exhibition for the public art installation, the Rubber Duck, by Florentijn Hofman. In particular, it focuses on Hofman's Chinese agencies and the exhibition organizers in the city of Hangzhou and investigates whether random public art indicators influence the estimated effects prior to the exhibition and if there are actual benefits after the exhibition. This study evaluates profits and investments using net present value, internal rate of return, and game options. An analysis of existing mathematical models reveals that such models can provide analytical results across varying time periods. The results of the present model can help decide whether one should invest or turn down an exhibition in a given city.

Iconography of Yoruba Indigenous Proverbs for Sustainable art Practices

Iconography of Yoruba Indigenous Proverbs for Sustainable art Practices

The process of holism: a critical analysis to bridge the gap between sustainable architecture design principles and elements defining Art of Sustainability

ABSTRACTIn 2004, Jason F. McLennan, in his book, The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, stated that ‘Sustainable design is the philosophy that simply asks, what is the most we can do on a given project to enhance the quality of the built environment’ or ‘it is a design philosophy that seeks to maximize the quality of the built environment, while minimizing or eliminating negative impact to the natural environment’. Such philosophy is a simple translation to ‘Sustainable Design’ in terms of ‘Sustainable Development’. In 2013, in SudBE international conference held in China, our research team coined the term ‘Art of Sustainability’ as the key element for sustainable design development. It links the concept of sustainable development to sustainable design principles. The aim of this research work is to establish a new model that links the six major sustainable design principles (The respect for: 1 – The wisdom of natural systems, 2 – The human vitality principle, 3 – The ecosystem principle, 4 – Cycle of life 5 – Energy and natural resources, and 6 – And finally the process – Holistic thinking principle) to the elements defining the Art of Sustainability which are: (1 – The meaning of space, 2 – The innovative structures, 3 – The innovation in construction and building material, and 4 – The contextual and cultural values). Such model can define the state of paradigm shift in sustainable design in architecture, where sustainable design seeks better building performance in terms of sustainability while Art of Sustainable design model would seek a better sustainable design performance, which is a step forward towards more sustainable practice.

“I got the business blues”: what organizations can learn from popular music?

As the link between sustainable development and art begins to shed a new light on organizational conceptions, this article considers popular music, and especially blues music. The conceptual process of the paper is to highlight the philosophical roots of Western aesthetics in order to propose a counterpoint based on popular and ordinary living sustained by popular music. By analyzing blues music as both a durable support and a natural process of everyday experience, we open a door to Chinese philosophy and psychology for HR Management based on the body-mind-spirit alignment. This perspective generates new and creative avenues for research in HR management, organizational theory, and business education. The major issue is then how to sensitize the ears of HRM so that it offers ‘vital nourishment’ in the workplace at a time when the cost of the depressive state of many an employee has become a proven risk.

Joni

Joni Maya Jewell Zeller (bio) would have been your name, had you been a girl, had your ultrasound shown you with a split between your legs and no penis. Had you been a girl, we'd have been sure what we wanted to call you even if we didn't share it, we'd have kept Joni like a small rock in our pockets, the kind you rub for luck, so it grows more and more smooth until the day you finally show it to someone, and there it is, its familiar little striations and grooves everyone else still has to learn. But you came out blue like Joni's river, the kind you skate away on, the way she wants to and to tell the truth I wanted to skate away, it was summer and too hot for skating and too late for really reconsidering so I lay in my hospital bed, my neck hurting and my body hollow with the crime of your birth. They were able to bring you out of the blue, wrap you and pin your arms with a stiff felt U to still your thrashing. And you lay in your room waiting for your name like an echo waits in a canyon, all that space and yet nowhere to go so it keeps bouncing off those high hard walls and coming back to us, a ripple of a ripple of air, of something someone shouted in joy or pain, back and forth between the origin and the stopping point, until the last piece of it soaks into the rock—and then it is gone. [End Page 161] Maya Jewell Zeller Maya Jewell Zeller is the author of Rust Fish and Yesterday, the Bees. Her poems and essays appear widely. Recipient of a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Maya edits fiction for Crab Creek Review and teaches poetry and poetics at Central Washington University. She lives in Spokane. Copyright © 2016 University of Nebraska Press

Persona

Persona Angela Voras-Hills (bio) Before I had language, I laughed: How many men does it take to build a house? How many women are left to make the beds? I played on a crooked bridge, walked the planks until the suspension gave, and rusted bolts caught my skin. I ran home, bleeding. Before I owned cliché, I pushed my baby in a stroller and tucked her into her crib. I was five and licking the beaters of someone else’s cake batter. I picked each cherry from the pie and left its shell untouched. This is how I learned to want everyone to want to understand me. By the time I was old enough to dissect meaning from the body, the windows had been sealed shut. I began separating yolks from their whites, seeds from their hulls, and now I can finally taste leaves loosening from their branches. I roll in the dirt that will catch them. [End Page 8] Angela Voras-Hills Angela Voras-Hills holds an MFA at UMass–Boston and has received awards from The Sustainable Arts Foundation, Key West Literary Seminar, and Writers’ Room of Boston. Other work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Memorious, and Best New Poets, among others. She is Literary Arts Program Co-director for Arts + Literature Laboratory in Madison, WI. Copyright © 2016 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents

Dynamic global infrastructure: The freeport as value chain

In an interview with China Daily in 2014, Wang Yudong, director of the art trade centre at the Beijing Culture Free Port, declared: “We have mapped out a global free-port strategy. Our aim is to build an art free-port network in Asia” (Deng, 2014: para. 5). Facilitated by state partners from Geneva to Singapore, Luxembourg, Germany, Paris and the state-affiliated Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group of the Beijing Freeport of Culture, freeports are believed by many governmental organisations to be a fast-track to a more mature and sustainable art market. In broad terms, freeports are special customs areas, or small customs territories, in which customs regulations are generally less strict, or for which there are no customs duties. Though each freeport varies slightly in terms of its individual jurisdictional arrangement with the respective states, they have established themselves as prominent nodes for international wealth and its traffic.

The mixed lineage kinase-3 inhibitor URMC-099 improves therapeutic outcomes for long-acting antiretroviral therapy

During studies to extend the half-life of crystalline nanoformulated antiretroviral therapy (nanoART) the mixed lineage kinase-3 inhibitor URMC-099, developed as an adjunctive neuroprotective agent was shown to facilitate antiviral responses. Long-acting ritonavir-boosted atazanavir (nanoATV/r) nanoformulations co-administered with URMC-099 reduced viral load and the numbers of HIV-1 infected CD4+ T-cells in lymphoid tissues more than either drug alone in infected humanized NOD/SCID/IL2Rγc−/− mice. The drug effects were associated with sustained ART depots. Proteomics analyses demonstrated that the antiretroviral responses were linked to affected phagolysosomal storage pathways leading to sequestration of nanoATV/r in Rab-associated recycling and late endosomes; sites associated with viral maturation. URMC-099 administered with nanoATV induced a dose-dependent reduction in HIV-1p24 and reverse transcriptase activity. This drug combination offers a unique chemical marriage for cell-based viral clearance. From the Clinical EditorAlthough successful in combating HIV-1 infection, the next improvement in antiretroviral therapy (nanoART) would be to devise long acting therapy, such as intra-cellular depots. In this report, the authors described the use of nanoformulated antiretroviral therapy given together with the mixed lineage kinase-3 inhibitor URMC-099, and showed that this combination not only prolonged drug half-life, but also had better efficacy. The findings are hoped to be translated into the clinical setting in the future.

The influence of paediatric HIV infection on circulating B cell subsets and CXCR5(+) T helper cells.

SummaryAntiretroviral therapy (ART) only partially restores HIV‐induced alterations in lymphocyte populations. We assessed B and T cell phenotypes in a cohort of children from a single centre in the United Kingdom with perinatally acquired HIV compared to healthy controls. The majority of HIV infected children (44 of 56) were on fully suppressive combination ART. Children with perinatally acquired HIV had significantly lower memory B and CD4+CD45RO+CXCR5+ [follicular T helper cell (Tfh)‐like] T cell percentages. Detectable viraemia was associated with higher CD21– (activated and exhausted/tissue‐like memory) B cells. A greater proportion of life spent on suppressive ART was associated with higher memory B cell percentages. These results suggest that early and sustained suppressive ART may preserve B and T cell phenotypes in perinatally acquired HIV and limit deficits in humoral immunity. A lower proportion of circulating Tfh‐like cells in HIV infected children appears to be independent of HIV treatment history and ongoing HIV viraemia and warrants further investigation.

A cultural tourism research agenda

The issues associated with accurately defining ‘art and cultural outputs’ as a ‘product’ is one that is familiar to both cultural tourism organisations and academics alike (Fillis, 2006). Those in cultural tourism organisations often reject the materialistic associations of ‘product’ when applied to their sector, as well as the notion of ‘consumer demand’, which does not accurately represent the primary driving force behind art/culture-based production nor does it the ‘relationship’ that exists between art/culture suppliers and art/culture consumers (Lehman & Wickham, 2014). Similarly, traditional marketing literature does not present a clear conceptualisation of how ‘art/cultural outputs’ comply with the traditional ‘product’ concept, and it rarely addresses the circumstances where product creation is not directly linked to customer needs/wants/demands (Kubacki & Croft, 2011). Despite this, effective art/cultural supply chain management (i.e. the production, marketing and consumption of art/cultural outputs) is increasingly recognised as an important driver of economic development, and essential to the development of sustainable art and cultural sectors (Evans, 2009 and Lehman and Wickham, 2014). Given these issues, this paper presents a research agenda for the reconceptualisation of the ‘product’ concept for the cultural tourism context. It will do so through the lens of Levitt’s (1980) Customer Value Hierarchy (see Fig. 1) - a framework that identifies a range of ‘product levels’ that serve to deliver ‘core benefits’ sought by different consumer segments across the art/cultural supply chain.

Sustainability reporting in Austrian and German local public enterprises

Since the liberalisation of markets during the 1990s, the pressure on public sector entities to demonstrate their performance in financial and non-financial terms has increased. Compared to the private sector, accountability expectations and obligations are higher for public enterprises due to public ownership and objectives associated with the public mission. While there is a vast body of literature on public accountability in general, a research gap exists when it comes to linking the general debate of public accountability to sustainability reporting practices of public enterprises. Thus, the paper addresses the research questions about the performance of reporting practices of public enterprises with respect to public accountability and about the state of the art of sustainability reporting of public enterprises in Germany and Austria with respect to accountability. Therefore, this paper combines two research domains, social and environmental accounting research and the accountability of public enterprises. The paper reports the results of a survey, analysing the reporting practices of German and Austrian local public entities in particular. Annual reports and, if available, sustainability reports from 103 Austrian and German cities were examined.

World alliance for arts education: A reflection upon seven years of advocacy

Abstract The World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) is a peak arts organization that aims to foster diverse and sustainable arts education. This article traces the journey and emergence of the WAAE from an idea in 2006 to an internationally respected alliance today. The journey of WAAE has included 1000s of arts educators across the globe. This account of the WAAE takes an insider perspective, providing a kind of travelogue, an auto-narrative noting key events, places and persons in respective organizations and vital partnerships. The article reflects upon dominant emergent issues raised over seven years and issues that inform the development of non-government organizations and alliances. The journey of this narrative begins by quickly highlighting a key destination we arrived at in Paris in 2012. Noting this endpoint upfront, contextualizes the journey of the article but also the journey of the WAAE.

Art Spoken Here: Reggio Emilia for the Big Kids

AbstractDeveloping one's creative potential is a basic human right, and thus the relationship between democracy and creativity is ineffable. Reggio Emilia pedagogies recognise this intrinsically; teaching through this modality embeds deep learning and an aesthetic awareness not often evident in formal schooling, despite the overwhelming evidence regarding the value of a sustained art education. Our children are all born creative and brave, yet something happens to them as they grow – the opportunities to express themselves artistically at school become minimised, the art curriculum becomes marginalised, and our children's creative genius falls away. What would Reggio Emilia look like in the High School classroom? Imagine a curriculum where all students' creative potential was nurtured, every day. This article explores this proposition, and argues that by utilising the highly successful pedagogies of Reggio Emilia, we can attend to the fundamental right of every child to an education that nurtures their inherent creativity.

Sustainable healthcare: how to assess and improve healthcare structures' sustainability.

Sustainability is a broad and debated subject, often difficult to be defined and applied into real projects, especially when dealing with a complex scenario as the one of healthcare. Many research studies and evaluation systems have handled this topic from different perspectives, but many limits and criticalities still have to be overcome to properly cope with actual needs. The Sustainable Healthcare project has been developed through three main phases: a deep study of the state of the art, unraveling pros and cons of available sustainability scoring systems; an accurate analysis of the stakeholders network and their needs; the realization of an objective evaluation framework, through scientific methods, as the ANP. The newly developed evaluation system takes into consideration all the three pillars of sustainability, analyzing social, environmental and economic sustainability through a set of criteria, specified by measurable indicators. So the system identifies both global sustainability and specific critical areas, pointing out possible strategic solutions to improve sustainability. The evaluation is achieved through technical analyses and qualitative surveys, which eventually allow to quantitatively assess sustainability, through a sound scoring method. This study proposes an innovative evaluation method to determine the sustainability of a hospital, already existing or in the design phase, within the European context. The Sustainable Healthcare system overcomes some of the current evaluation systems' limits by establishing a multidisciplinary approach and being an easy-to-use tool. This protocol is intended to be of support in the identification of the main hospital's weaknesses and in setting priorities for implementation of the solutions.

APPROACHING VERTICAL GREENERY AS PUBLIC ART: A REVIEW ON POTENTIALS IN URBAN MALAYSIA

When landscape becomes the work of art, it is becoming more significant to the community. However, finding practical and effective ways in which public art could present an environmental cause is yet to be fully explored. Therefore, one way to approach this issue is by increasing the Vertical Greenery technology's application, especially at the wall of building in the city. Vertical Greenery (VG) varies in term of definition, but all in all, it can be interpreted as the growing of plants in, up, or against the facade of a building. On the other hand, public art can be referred as an artwork that is located in public space, which welcomes public interactions. Thus, in order to further study the potential of VG implementation as public art, this paper reviews 25 selected real life projects in urban Malaysia as reference studies, which include Kuala Lumpur, Selangor Johor and Penang that applied VG in their development. It explored whether the VG’s implemented is, for public art. Based on the study, the researcher found that VG is implemented for its environmental, economic and aesthetic value. The researcher also noted that all VG that has been implemented at the developments in some ways portray the basic idea of public art which is an artistic expression that is positioned in a freely accessed public space for the public to use, but not just any art placed outside yet still carries the basic concept of art, which to beautify spaces. Hence, the result had shown significant potentials for VG to be introduced as a new form of sustainable public art in urban Malaysia.

The Emerald Ash Borer

An Emerald Ash Borer made from recycled natural materials to create sustainable art. Author/Artist Bio Emily Bryant was born near Cleveland, Ohio. While completing degrees in sustainability and art at BaldwinWallace College, Emily began utilizing sustainable materials to produce art with environmental messages. Focusing on the impact of native and invasive species in local ecosystems, Emily hopes to inspire others to explore and conserve nature. Emily Bryant is a Sustainability Specialist and Artist, her work is available to view here: etsy.com/shop/TheScoff Patch