Reset #4 Scott Ludlam: Full Circle and the Art of Panarchy

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Thursday 15 July 2021 4:00 to 6.00 pm
Bradley Forum (H5-02), Hawke Building, City West Campus
And online via this webinar link

Scott Ludlam says: Questions of climate and energy transitions have long been considered the domain of technologists and policymakers, engineers and executives. And so now we stand at the brink of collapse, with old systems buckling and novel ones yet to breach the armour of state capture. Now is the time for fresh imagination and radical ideas: that’s the domain of artists and cultural practitioners.

At the same time, new thinking around climate economics is useful to the cultural sector in building arguments for the sector as foundational. The word ecosystem gets used a lot in arts and culture, in different and sometimes opposing ways.

To help us think through this Reset #4 hosts Scott Ludlam in a conversation about the ideas he proposes in his new book, Full Circle, and their relevance to the cultural sector. Scott was a senator from 2008 to 2017 and served as deputy leader of the Australian Greens. He formerly worked as a filmmaker, artist and graphic designer and now resides on the south coast of NSW as a full-time writer, activist and troublemaker. Full Circle takes panoramic view of the planetary ecosystem, where nature, culture and history run together.

Drawing from his book, Scott will throw concepts of industrial metabolism, adaptive cycles and panarchy into the mix, using systems theory and movement history to provoke a conversation about how the arts can take a central role in the emerging global network of social movements.

Register via Eventbrite

Reset: is an eight-month programme of events involving art and culture practitioners, policymakers and academics from all three universities in South Australia. The deepening crisis in arts and culture was only made worse by the pandemic, and its current failure to secure its value as an essential part of our democratic society has long roots. We seek new ideas and practices to help us rethink the value of art and culture and re-establish their place in public policy and in our everyday citizenship.

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Reset #4 Scott Ludlam: Full Circle and the Art of Panarchy

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Thursday 15 July 2021 4:00 to 6.00 pm
Bradley Forum (H5-02), Hawke Building, City West Campus
And online via this webinar link

Scott Ludlam says: Questions of climate and energy transitions have long been considered the domain of technologists and policymakers, engineers and executives. And so now we stand at the brink of collapse, with old systems buckling and novel ones yet to breach the armour of state capture. Now is the time for fresh imagination and radical ideas: that’s the domain of artists and cultural practitioners.

At the same time, new thinking around climate economics is useful to the cultural sector in building arguments for the sector as foundational. The word ecosystem gets used a lot in arts and culture, in different and sometimes opposing ways.

To help us think through this Reset #4 hosts Scott Ludlam in a conversation about the ideas he proposes in his new book, Full Circle, and their relevance to the cultural sector. Scott was a senator from 2008 to 2017 and served as deputy leader of the Australian Greens. He formerly worked as a filmmaker, artist and graphic designer and now resides on the south coast of NSW as a full-time writer, activist and troublemaker. Full Circle takes panoramic view of the planetary ecosystem, where nature, culture and history run together.

Drawing from his book, Scott will throw concepts of industrial metabolism, adaptive cycles and panarchy into the mix, using systems theory and movement history to provoke a conversation about how the arts can take a central role in the emerging global network of social movements.

Register via Eventbrite

Reset: is an eight-month programme of events involving art and culture practitioners, policymakers and academics from all three universities in South Australia. The deepening crisis in arts and culture was only made worse by the pandemic, and its current failure to secure its value as an essential part of our democratic society has long roots. We seek new ideas and practices to help us rethink the value of art and culture and re-establish their place in public policy and in our everyday citizenship.

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