Join RCE London their Art, Nature and Sustainability webinar on Thursday, September 20th at 12:00PM to 1:30PM.
About this event:
RCE London is celebrating the 10th year since it was endorsed and admitted to the global RCE network (Regional Centre of Expertise for Education for Sustainable Development ) by the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS).
RCE London is marking this milestone year with a webinar series entitled 'Sustainability and Beyond' with the emphasis on an eclectic mix of themes around the Sustainable Development Goals.
Each webinar will be presented virtually by a member(s) of RCE London and there will be time for discussion & questions. The series Chair is Ros Wade, Emeritus Professor, LSBU and Chair of RCE London. The series is hosted by London South Bank University. You will receive the joining instructions 3 days before each webinar takes place.
Art, Nature and Sustainability
During this event, Hugh Atkinson will look at the world of nature and sustainability through the eyes of visual artists. Van Gogh got it right when he argued that artists understand nature and love it and teach us to see it. Supporting nature and promoting a more sustainable world are complex challenges which mere words cannot totally capture in the way that art can. The session will start with a presentation of 22 works of art beginning with El Greco and ending with Anish Kapoor’s Sky Mirror. The aim is to make us think about our understanding of how we see nature but it is also about fun and enjoyment.
Speaker biography:
Hugh Atkinson is a political scientist with research interests in the politics of climate change and New Economics. He is a distinguished fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, Bristol and a visiting fellow in politics at LSBU. He is a member of the steering group of the London Regional Centre of Expertise in ESD. Hugh enjoys visiting art galleries and has attended a number of art appreciation workshops and classes. He has been a supporter of Crystal Palace FC for over 50 years.
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