D R . S A C H A K A G A N

EXPERIENCE (POSITIONS, PROJECTS, ETC.)

2005-2018 ISCO (Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization),formerly: IKKK (Institute of Cultural Theory, Research, and the Arts), Sociology of the Arts Research Unit, Leuphana University, LüneburgAssociate Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)

2015-2018 Research project “City as Space of Possibility” (funded by the "Niedersächsisches Vorab" of the State of Lower Saxony, in program “Science for Sustainable Development”)Principal Investigator, leader of research area “creative and artistic practice for sustainable urban development” See www.leuphana.de/sam

2017-2018 2018 ATLAS Transdisciplinary-Transnational-Transcultural (T3) International Conference “Being Transdisciplinary” (June 2018, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca)Member of the conference international committee See www.atlas-conference.org

2011-2019 Research Network Sociology of the Arts, at the European Sociological Association (ESA RN02)Coordinator (2015-2017), Member of the Board (2011-2019) Director of the 9th ESA RN2 Midterm Conference: "Arts AndCreativity: Working on Identity and Difference". University of Porto,September 2016.

Organizer and co-moderator of the ESA RN2 + CES (University ofCoimbra) Summer school: Artistic and Other Creative Practices asDrivers for Urban Resilience. Espinho Municipal Museum, September2016. See: https://ces.uc.pt/en/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2016/artistic-and-other-creative-practices-as-drivers

Coordinator of ESA RN2 sessions (and joint-session with RN23:Sexuality) at the 13th ESA Conference: “(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism,Solidarities, Subjectivities”. Athens, September 2017.

See final report: https://www.europeansociology.org/sites/default/files/public/RN02%20BIENNIAL%20REPORT%202015-2017.pdf

2016-2018 The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva (TAAG), HEAD – Geneva School of Art and DesignMember of the Advisory Research Group2015-2018 Xplore Berlin – The Festival on The Art of LustWorkshops giver (2015), Curator of the Xplore Symposium (2016: “Embodying Enlivenment – Queer, SM and Eco-Sexual Perspective”; 2017: “Shifting Backstages and Frontlines of Embodiment”; 2018: virtual symposium)2015-2017 Journal of Cleaner Production - 1st Special Volume on Organizational Creativity and SustainabilityGuest Editor

2013-2016 Curating Cities, a Database of Eco Public Art (National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) at COFA, UNSW, Australia)

Member of the International Advisory Committee

2006-2016 Cultura21 International, Network for Cultures of Sustainability, + Cultura21 platform in GermanyFounding Coordinator of Cultura21 International (2007-2016) – Vice-President of Cultura21 e.V. (2010-2015) – Cultura21 eBooks series editor (2010-...) – editor of the English section of Cultura21 Webmagazine (2009-2013) - supervision of interns (e.g.from the Leuphana PLUS program) (2011-2013) - etc. See www.cultura21.net

2014-2015 MOOC Managing the Arts: Marketing for Cultural Organizations (Leuphana Digital School, Goethe Institut)Member of the scientific advisory committee & project management team, Lecturer2013-2015 COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action IS 1007: Investigating Cultural SustainabilityCOST action member, and member of the scientific committee for the final conference (Helsinki, May 2015) See http://www.culturalsustainability.eu

2012–2013 “Global Classroom” project, Leuphana Universität LüneburgAssociate Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)

2011-2012 International Conference "Radius of Art: Creative politicization of the public sphere - Cultural potential forces for social transformation" , Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin (Feb. 2012)

Member of the coordination team ; conceptualization and organization of the “Art toward Cultures of Sustainability” stream See http://www.radius-of-art.de/conference/

2011 Prix COAL “Art & Environnement”, Paris

Member of the selection committee See http://www.projetcoal.org/coal/2011/05/25/les-projets-finalistes-du-prix-coal-2011/

2009-2011 International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST), Gabrovo (Bulgaria) in2010Founding Director See http://assist.cultura21.net/

2010 Workshop "Sustainable Creative Cities: The role of the arts in the globalized urban context" at the 4th “Connecting Civil Societies” Conference (2-3 Oct. 2010) in preparation for the ASEM8 Summit, Brussels

Main organizer/coordinator of the workshop2009 Expert commission on the role of culture in the transition to an ecological age, commissioned by ASEF (Asia Europe Foundation) alongside COP15, CopenhagenMember of the commission

2008–2009 "Asia-Europe Dialogue on Arts, Culture & Climate Change", ASEF and Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Member of the Advisory Board See www.culture360.org/artandclimatechange/

2007–2009 EU-funded, European project „Awareness raising of Europeans on issues of sustainability in semi-pastoral societies of developing countries: the case of the Karimojong people in North-Eastern Uganda“, together with ACTED (Paris)Project Coordinator for Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Organizer of the international conference "European Awareness of

Sustainability in Africa: Issues of Pastoralism"

See www.karamoja.eu

2008 Postgraduate diplomas in visual arts at the Geneva University of Art and Design, CCC research-based program, GenevaMember of the Jury

2006–2007 Leuphana Universität LüneburgConference of the Arts Research Network of the European Sociological Association Member of the scientific committee and organizational committee

Coordinator of the “Sustainability stream” of the conference

2005 Service Culturel, Université Bordeaux 3Communication Manager

Before 2005: See www.leuphana.de/sacha-kagan.html

See also section “Conferences, Events” below for my organization offurther events

EDUCATION

2006-2010 Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Germany Dr. Phil., Summa Cum Laude (Ph.D on ‘Art and (un)sustainability’

supervised by Prof. Dr. V. Kirchberg ; defense and book publication in2011)

2003–2004 Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Netherlands M.A., Cultural Economics and Cultural Entrepreneurship, cum laude

1999–2003 Sciences Po Bordeaux France Diplôme d’IEP with specialization in political sociology [4 university

years, in-between a BA and a MA]

Ranked 2nd of the 2003 promotion (Major of the political sociologyspecialization).

1998–2000 Université Bordeaux 3 France DEUG Histoire [Diploma in History ; 2 university years]

1998 Lycée François Magendie, Bordeaux France Baccalauréat Littéraire, OIB Américain, Mention Bien (+ 1st prize in

History)

Trained in “Systems Thinking Games” by Dennis Meadows (2004)

Courses completed in environmental management, water management, social sciences, empirical parapsychology (Erasmus exchange year, Rotterdam + Amsterdam, 2001-2002)

Languages: English – quasi-bilingual, daily working language for over 20 years,TOIEC test (2003) score: 985

French – native language

German – spoken: very good, written: average

Dutch – notions (used to be good)

Italian – a few traces (used to be average)

Esperanto – a few traces (basic course taken)

AFFILIATIONS

Member of the European Sociological Association (ESA ResearchNetworks 2: Sociology of the Arts and 7: Sociology of Culture),Cultura21 (Germany and International), ecoartnetwork, walking artistsnetwork, and Fachverband Kulturmanagement. Member of the EditorialBoard of MAiA - Music and Arts in Action (University of Exeter). Formermember of the International Humanitarian Studies Association.

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2018: Basarab Nicolescu Transdisciplinary Science & EngineeringAward (individual award for “outstanding achievement”)

2017: Wissenstransferpreis der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (teamprize, for the research project “Die Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum”)

2015: Fundraisingpreis der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (team prize,for the research project “Die Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum”)

2015: Comenius EduMedia Siegel 2015 (team award, for the MOOC“Managing the Arts: Marketing for Cultural Organizations”)

2003-2004: Huygens Scholarship for International Students (NUFFIC)

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES + OTHER ACTIVITIES

Publications (some of them are available for free at: sachakagan.wordpress.com/writings or via my ResearchGate profile)

Eds. Sacha Kagan, Volker Kirchberg, Ursula Weisenfeld, Stadt alsMöglichkeitsraum: Experimentierfelder einer urbanen Nachhaltigkeit,transcript Verlag, 2019.

Sacha Kagan, “Kreativ-kulturelle und künstlerische Praktiken fürstädtische Möglichkeitsräume”. In Eds. Kagan, Kirchberg andWeisenfeld (Op. Cit.).

Sacha Kagan, Volker Kirchberg, Ursula Weisenfeld, “Stadt alsMöglichkeitsraum – Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt”. In Eds. Kagan,Kirchberg and Weisenfeld (Op. Cit.).

Volker Kirchberg, Sacha Kagan, “Perspektiven der nachhaltigenStadtentwicklung – Übereinstimmungen, Diskordanzen undEmpfehlungen”. In Eds. Kagan, Kirchberg and Weisenfeld (Op. Cit.).

Annette Grigoleit, Sacha Kagan, “Zwischenspiel: Ricklingen, Bornumund Linden-Süd” + “Zwischenspiel: Linden-Nord ”. In Eds. Kagan,Kirchberg and Weisenfeld (Op. Cit.).

Sacha Kagan, “Zwischenspiel: Mitte”. In Eds. Kagan, Kirchberg andWeisenfeld (Op. Cit.).

Sacha Kagan, Antoniya Hauerwaas, Sünje von Helldorff, UrsulaWeisenfeld. “Jamming sustainable futures: Assessing and enhancingthe potential of design thinking and design doing in a transdisciplinarycase study”. (Submitted for review to 2nd special issue of Journal ofCleaner Production on organizational creativity and sustainability.)

Sacha Kagan, “Village Triangles: expanded systems thinking games toplayfully learn about complex systems”. In Eds. Kamel Mnisri, NunoGuimaraes da Costa, Paul Shrivastava, Stefan Hüsig, Klaus-PeterSchulz, Facilitating sustainable development through creativeapproaches – integrating arts, technology and managementperspectives, PUN - Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine(forthcoming).

Sacha Kagan. “Ihm-agining sustainability: urban imaginaries in spacesof possibility”. In Eds. Christoph Lindner and Miriam Meissner,Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries, Routledge, 2019.

Sacha Kagan. “Proving the world more Imaginary? Four Approachesto Imagining Sustainability in Sustainability Research”.Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (forthcoming/accepted).

Sacha Kagan. “Retracing my Steps: a 10-years journey to walking-based transdisciplinary research”. In Eds. Clare Qualmann and MishaMyers, Where to? The future of walking arts, Triarchy Press [book justcancelled in June 2018 / now submitting to journal: World Futures].

Sacha Kagan. “Culture and the Arts in Sustainable Development:Rethinking Sustainability Research”. In Eds. Torsten Meireis andGabriele Rippl, Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability, Routledge,2019.

Eds. Hans Dieleman, Domingo Adame, Sacha Kagan.Transdisciplinary Transformative Socio-Ecological Arts PracticesWorldwide. The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & AdvancedStudies (ATLAS), 2018 (forthcoming).

Diego Galafassi, Sacha Kagan, Manjana Milkoreit, GudrunPetursdottir, J. David Tabara, Sadhbh Juarez Bourke, ChantalBilodeau, María Heras, Andrew Merrie, Leonie Guerrero. “‘RaisingThe Temperature’: The Arts In a Warming Planet”. Current Opinion inEnvironmental Sustainability 31, 2018.

Sacha Kagan, Antoniya Hauerwaas, Verena Holz and Patricia Wedler.“Culture in sustainable urban development: Practices and policies forspaces of possibility and institutional innovations”. City, Culture andSociety 13, 2018.

Sacha Kagan. “Artful Sustainability: Queer-convivialist life-art andthe artistic turn in sustainability research”. Transdisciplinary Journalof Engineering & Science, Vol. 8 (December 2017).

Sacha Kagan. “Prefigurar la Sustentabilidad”. Revista Ecosistema 22,2017.

Sacha Kagan. “Embodying Enlivenment: Becoming Sex-Ecologies atthe Xplore Berlin 2016 Symposium and Festival”. Center forSustainable Practices in the Arts CSPA Quarterly 17, 2017.

Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg. “Music and sustainability:organizational cultures towards creative resilience – A review”,Journal of Cleaner Production 135, 2016.

Sacha Kagan. “The Emergence of Creative Sustainable Cities”, inMichael Ziehl, C. Rabe and T. Haupt (Eds.), City Linkage: Art andCulture Fostering Urban Futures, Jovis Verlag, 2016.

Sacha Kagan. “Prefiguring Sustainability: Response-Ability & Spacesof Possibility”, in Marie Le Sourd and Hannah Van den Bergh (Eds.),Art for the Planet's Sake: Arts and Environment, IETM, 2015.

Sacha Kagan. “On inter- and transdisciplinarity in culture andsustainability”, in Joost Dessein, Katriina Soin, G. Fairclough, and L.Horlings (Eds.), Culture in, for and as Sustainable Development:Conclusions from the COST Action IS1007 Investigating CulturalSustainability, University of Jyväskylä, 2015.

Sacha Kagan. "Konvivialismus als Kunst und Komplexität alsErfahrung", in Frank Adloff and Volker M. Heins (Eds.),Konvivialismus - eine Debatte, transcript Verlag, 2015.

Sacha Kagan, “Artistic research and climate science: transdisciplinarylearning and spaces of possibilities”, Journal of ScienceCommunication 14 (1), 2015.

Sacha Kagan, “Complexity as experience: The contribution ofaesthetics to cultures of sustainability”, in Christopher Crouch, N.Kaye, & J. Crouch (Eds.), An introduction to sustainability andaesthetics: the arts and design for the environment, BrownWalkerPress, 2015.

Sacha Kagan, “The City is our Anthropo-Scene!: Art as a Verb andUrban Sustainability Transformation”, in Joanne Gay, Swee HongOng and Joanne Tan, Lighting People's Cities, Three Sixty Review /Oro Editions, 2014.

Beatrice John and Sacha Kagan, “Extreme Climate Events asOpportunities for Radical Open Citizenship”, Open Citizenship 5 (1),2014.

Sacha Kagan, “Let artists shape a resilient city”, The Straits Times,10.04.2014.

Sacha Kagan, “The Practice of Ecological Art” / “La pratique de l'artécologique”, [Plastik], 4, 2014. [Republished in Esperanto translation: “La praktiko de ekologia arto”,in ed. Wolfgang Guenther, Kiosko: libera, skeptica, transkultura, n°8,Esperanto-Eldoneyo Nula Horo, 2015.]

Volker Kirchberg and Sacha Kagan. “The roles of artists in theemergence of creative sustainable cities: Theoretical clues andempirical illustrations”. City, Culture, and Society, 4 (3), 2013.

Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg. “Guest editorial: The sustainablecity and the arts”. City, Culture, and Society, 4 (3), 2013.

Sacha Kagan. “Serendipedestrian colloquy. Or a re-memb-rance fromfeettalks at Footwork.” Footwork, July 2013.

Sacha Kagan. “Be Seeing You!: An art exhibition exploresgovernmentality and the illusions of emancipation”. Cultura21Webmagazine, April 2013.

Sacha Kagan, Toward Global (Environ)Mental Change:Transformative Art and Cultures of Sustainability, Heinrich BöllFoundation, 2012. + German translation: Sacha Kagan, Auf dem Weg zu einem globalen(Umwelt-)Bewusstseinswandel: Über transformative Kunst und einegeistige Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Reihe"Ökologie", Band 20, 2012.

Sacha Kagan, “The transcultural and artscience: The 'KaramojaCampaign' as an attempt at transdisciplinary action research”, inChrista Cremer-Renz and Bettina Jansen-Schulz (Eds.), Von derInternationalisierung der Hochschule zur transkulturellenWissenschaft, NOMOS-Verlag, 2012.

Sacha Kagan. "We the Gardeners, Cooks, Craftsmen, Action Thinkers– We the resilients?". Cultura21 Webmagazine, June 2012.

Sacha Kagan, "Arto kay Dauropovo: Konektante Modeloyn porKulturo de Komplekseco", in Wolfgang Guenther (ed.), Kiosko -libera, skeptica, transkultura, n°6, 2012.

Sacha Kagan. "Aesthetics of Sustainability: A TransdisciplinarySensibility for Transformative Practices". Transdisciplinary Journalof Engineering & Science, Vol. 2 (December 2011).

Sacha Kagan, “Art and Sustainability: The search for cultures ofsustainability is not an easy journey”, in Katja Hellkoetter (Ed.), EUChina Cultural Compass: Orientation for Intercultural Cooperationbetween China and Europe, Beijing: Goethe Institut China, 2011.

Sacha Kagan, “Diary from the "Ueber Lebenskunst Festival" - A peekinto a “new art of living”?” Cultura21 Magazin, August 2011.

Sacha Kagan, Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for aCulture of Complexity, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2011 (2ndemended edition 2013).

Oleg Koefoed, Sacha Kagan, Hans Dieleman, "SustensiveIntercultural Chronotopes", In Oleg Koefoed, Joakim Kromann,Michael Paulsen, Christian Ydesen (Eds.), Learning from the Other -intercultural metalogues, Malmö: NSU Press / Aarhus: AarhusUniversity Press, 2011.

Sacha Kagan, "Which wealth for which sustainability?" Cultura21Magazin, June 2011.

Sacha Kagan and Julia Hahn, “Creative Cities and (Un)Sustainability:From Creative Class to Sustainable Creative Cities”, Culture andLocal Governance / Culture et gouvernance locale, vol. 3, no. 1-2,2011.

Eds. Sacha Kagan and Katelijn Verstraete, “Sustainable CreativeCities: the role of the arts in globalised urban contexts” - An extendedreport from workshop 3 at the ASEF CCS4 Conference, Singapore,

Lüneburg: Asia-Europe Foundation, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg,2011.

Sacha Kagan, “Cultures of Sustainability and the aesthetics of thepattern that connects”, Futures: The journal of policy, planning andfutures studies vol. 42, no. 10, Dec. 2010.

Sacha Kagan, "Walking for social and ecological transformation",Culture360.org, Dec. 2010.

Sacha Kagan, “From the Unsustainable Creative Class to theSustainable Creative City: An Emerging Shift in Cultural Policies?”ESA Research Network Sociology of Culture Midterm Conference:Culture and the Making of Worlds, October 2010. Available online atthe SSRN.

Sacha Kagan, “Walking in the history and art history of Europeans: avery brief introduction”, in ed. Sacha Kagan, Walking in life, art andscience: a few examples, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 2010.

Sacha Kagan, “A Review of Cultural Engineering”. CulturalEngineering Group Weblog, January 2010.

Eds David Knaute and Sacha Kagan, Sustainability in Karamoja?Rethinking the terms of global sustainability in a crisis region ofAfrica, Köppe, 2009.

Sacha Kagan, Liv Pedersen and Sally Ollech, "The KaramojaSyndrome: transdisciplinary systems research informing policy andadvocacy", in eds. Knaute and Kagan, op. cit., 2009.

Sacha Kagan, "Land of Thorns: a filmic attempt to mediate issues of(un-)sustainable development", in eds. Knaute and Kagan, op. cit.,2009.

Sacha Kagan, “Recent trends in arts financing and the role of thecultural entrepreneur”, in Neuzsalanti kultura 2006 / 2008 (Ice-FreeCulture 2006 / 2008), Druka, 2009.

Sacha Kagan, “The too many artists syndrome”, in Edu Tool Box:Cross Critique - Towards a Subjective University, Halle für KunstLüneburg & CCC programme - HEAD Genève, 2009.

Sacha Kagan, “Systems Thinking Games”, in ASEF, Report onConnect2Culture & The Asia-Europe Dialogue on Arts, Culture andClimate Change, ASEF, 2009.

David Knaute and Sacha Kagan, “Report on the InternationalConference: Issues of Pastoralism – zur Situation der Hirtenvölker”,ACTED, 2008.

Eds Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg, Sustainability: a new frontierfor the arts and cultures, VAS, 2008.

Sacha Kagan, Introduction: "Sustainability as a new frontier for thearts and cultures", in eds. Kagan and Kirchberg, op. cit., 2008.

Sacha Kagan, "Art effectuating social change: doubleentrepreneurship in conventions", in eds. Kagan and Kirchberg, op.cit., 2008.

Sacha Kagan and Hans Dieleman, "Seven points for an agenda ofresearch and action on cultures and arts for sustainability", in eds.Kagan and Kirchberg, op. cit., 2008.

Sacha Kagan, "Une sage-femme écopoiétique". In eds. Bernard

Lafargue, Karl Lakolak, Érographies d’incorporelles, éditionsEverland, 2008.

Sacha Kagan, "Stepping out of the sandbox: From the arts as orderfactor to the arts as change factor for Sustainability", Cultura21Magazin, August 2007.

Eds Sacha Kagan and Bettina Steinbrügge, Everything will be fine /alles wird gut, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2007.

Volker Kirchberg, Sacha Kagan and Christoph Behnke, Final ReportESA Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts Conference inLüneburg, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2007.

Angela Franz-Balsen and Sacha Kagan, "Wenn der Golfstrom dasDrehbuch schreibt", punkt.um, November 2006.

Sacha Kagan, "Comment synthétiser Un siècle de danse moderne?, uncompte-rendu critique du montage de la Cinémathèque de la Danse",Journal de l'association d'Etat des professeurs de danse diplômés duCEFEDEM d'Aquitaine, Sept-Dec 2005.

Sacha Kagan, 4 articles about choreographies by A. Preljocaj, underthe heading "Le Spectateur Symbolique", Le Quotidien des GrandesTraversées, Bordeaux, November 2004.

Sacha Kagan, "First Elements for a Method of Intercultural DanceProjects for Social Cohesion", Nieuwsbrief Erasmus Genootschapvoor Cultuurmanagement, June 2004.

Sacha Kagan, ENT³, art projects for intercultural interaction:Entrepreneurship in Conventions (MA Thesis), Erasmus UniversiteitRotterdam, 2004.

Sacha Kagan, Young People and Cultural Communication aboutSustainability in Rotterdam, Atelier voor Interactive DuurzaamheidActiviteiten (AIDA) / MilieuBeleid GemeenteWerken Rotterdam,2002 (2nd version and diploma-thesis: IEP Bordeaux / AIDA, 2003).

Sacha Kagan, “L’insoutenable légèreté d’EDF”. Le Monde Libertaire1103, Dec. 1997.

Conferences and Other Activities (as Speaker, Organizer, etc.)

Educational workshops are listed further down under “courses taught”.

Workshop organizer & contributor: “Making Urban Spaces ofPossibilities: Cultural infrastructures and the politics of cooperation inreal-utopian place-making”. 10th Midterm Conference of the ResearchNetwork Sociology of the Arts at the European SociologicalAssociation (ESA RN2): "Creative Locations: Art, Culture and theCity". University of Malta, Valletta, September 2018.

Guest Speaker: “Ecological Art, Spaces of Possibilities and the DeepLeverage Points of Institutional Innovations”. Kunst, Ökologie undEcovention 7. Internationale Waldkunst Konferenz. Schader Stiftung,Darmstadt, August 2018.

Invited Presentation: “Political imaginaries of sustainability: Lookinginto the interplay between imagination and imaginaries”. Workshop:Conceptualizing the Political Imaginary. ZIF (Center forInterdisciplinary Research), Universität Bielefeld, July 2018.

Guest Speaker (“Artful Sustainability in Transdisciplinary Spaces ofPossibility”) and Round-Table Moderator (“Being Transdisciplinary in

Sustainability Studies and Actions”) at the 2018 ATLAS T3(Transdisciplinary, Transnational, Transcultural) InternationalConference “Being Transdisciplinary”, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Rumania, June 2018.

Guest Speaker (“Artful Sustainability: The Artistic Turn inSustainability Research”) at the “Along Ecological Lines” Symposium(in Geneva) at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève; and participantat the “Along Ecological Lines” workshop on environmentallyengaged art, held in Zurich by Barnaby Drabble of the EcoleCantonale d’Art du Valais, with the ETH Zurich; both in March 2018.

Workshop giver: Spielerisch Lernen für Nachhaltigkeitsprojekte durchSystems- & Design Thinking. 5th Utopianale Film Festival,Freizeitheim Linden, Hannover, November 2017.

Keynote Speaker: Art in urban Spaces of Possibility for SustainabilityTransformation. Art, Urbanity & Sustainability InternationalSymposium (SIAUS). Federal University of Sao Joao del Rei, Brazil,October 2017.

Guest Speaker: Urban spaces of possibility and imaginaries ofsustainability. The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva (TAAG)International Symposium. HEAD-Genève/Geneva School of Art andDesign, October 2017.

Invited Presentation: Urban Spaces of possibility: the case of Hanover(Germany). Creative Mobilities International Forum. Culture etDéveloppement, Grenoble, September 2017.

Paper presentation: Assessing and enhancing the potential of designthinking for sustainability: the case of a Sustainability Jam inHanover. 2nd Organizational Creativity and Sustainability InternationalConference (ARTEMOCC). Nancy Business School, ARTEMCampus, Nancy, September 2017.

Workshop giver: Trans-Place-Making: A ‘walking with video’workshop. International Transdisciplinarity Conference:Transdisciplinary Research and Education – Interculturl Endeavours.td-net & Leuphana University Lüneburg, September 2017.

Organizer of the Sociology of the Arts Research Network (ESA RN2)sessions (130 papers), Chair of 4 sessions, and 2 Papers presentations:“City as Space of Possibility – Alternative and Artistic InitiativesTowards Urban Sustainability” + “BDSM as a playful and artful wayto experience several realities and complexity at the ‘Xplore Berlin’festival of arts, sex and bodywork”. 13th Conference of the EuropeanSociological Association: (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism,Solidarities, Subjectivities. Panteion University + HarokopioUniversity, Athens, August-September 2017.

Lecture + workshop giver: BDSM Sagacity: embodying complexity.Xplore Symposium (Shifting Backstages and Frontlines ofEmbodiment) at the Xplore Festival, Berlin, July 2017.

Invited Talk: Forschung statt Vermittlung. Auftaktworkshop: NeueAnsichten! Kunst – Kultur – Wissenschaft – Nachhaltigkeitspolitik imDialog. Projektbüro Friedrich von Borries, Umweltbundesamt &Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Insel Vilm, June 2017.

Workshop Giver: Village Triangles (systems thinking & qualitative-complexity games). At the workshop “Positiver Aktionismus” - DasWundersame Aktionsbündnis der Tante Trottoir / Theater an derGlocksee, Hannover, May 2017.

Guest Panelist: Stadt. Vielfalt. Entwicklung. 14. Konsultation derBundesweiten Koalition Kulturelle Vielfalt. Deutsche UNESCOKommission. Kulturzentrum Pavillon, Hannover, May 2017.

Guest Panelist: Reduction or Reform: Conflict and Opportunity for amodern society. DeLight Sustainable Light-Art Festival, Berlin,March 2017.

Guest Speaker: Art & Sustainability: Culture of Complexity and ArtfulSustainability. AdaptationCONNECTS project kick-off meeting:Lysebu Workshop. Oslo, January 2017.

Guest Speaker: Imaginaries of Sustainability, Critical Imagination andUrban Spaces of Possibility. Conference: The Impossibility ofMapping (Urban Asia), NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2016-2017. NTU Centrefor Contemporary Art, Singapore, November 2016.

Paper presentation: Emergence, Complexity, Design, Planning,Control – Approaching issues of emergence in urban sustainabledevelopment through the lens of qualitative complexity. "EmergentCulture": 6th midterm Conference of the European SociologicalAssociation’s Research Network Sociology of Culture (ESA RN7).University of Exeter, November 2016.

Invited Presentation: The Arts and the Cultural Dimension inTransdisciplinary Sustainability Research: Towards ArtfulSustainability. Workshop ‘Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability’.University of Bern, November 2016.

Keynote Speaker: Artful Sustainability: The artistic turn insustainability science. Conference/Workshops: Realizing Potentials:conversations and experiments at the frontier of art-basedsustainability. Several universities and research centres of Barcelona,November 2016.

Guest Panelist: Art and Culture Fostering Urban Futures – Podiumsdiskussion. Urbanize! Internationales Festival Für Urbane Erkundungen: "URBANI7E! Housing the Many – Stadt der Vielen". Gängeviertel, Hamburg, September 2016.

Creative Workshop Coordinator and co-moderator: Artistic and other Creative Practices in the City: Urban Resilience between a Future II Simple and a future too simple. 9th Midterm Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts at the European Sociological Association (ESA RN2): "Arts And Creativity: Working on Identity and Difference". University of Porto, September 2016.

Workshop Giver: Finding Key Leverage Points - or Number 6 and the Triangles: an experimental systems thinking game workshop. ESA RN2 & CES Summer School: Artistic and Other Creative Practices as Drivers for Urban Resilience. Museum of Espinho, September 2016.

Organizer , Moderator: Panel Discussion: Embodying Enlivenment – Queer, SM and Eco-Sexual Perspectives. Xplore Symposium / Xplore Berlin Festival - The Festival on the Art of Lust. Berlin, July 2016.

Panel Moderator: Zukunftsstadt – Was kann die Kunst? Leuphana Konferenzwoche. Leuphana University Lüneburg, February 2016.

Paper presentation: "Proving the World more Imaginary". Cultures of Sustainability, Cultural Sustainability. Research Workshop: Seeming To Be To Become Reality: Sustainability – A Normative Fiction In Art, Science And Society. Center for Methods, Leuphana University Lüneburg, February 2016.

Invited paper presentation: An Embedded Double Agent: Frances

Whitehead at the 606. Workshop: Artistic Strategies for Building Urban Space. Freibad Berlin, Berlin, Caputh, January 2016.

Panelist: Welche Zukunft hat die Lüneburger Kulturlandschaft? (Podiumsdiskussion). Kulturbäckerei, Lüneburg, January 2016.

Guest Speaker: Can the concept of Creative City be applied to bottom up sustainable local development strategies? Which alternative economies can be born out of these? Sinopale Forum: Culture and Creativity for Local Development. Salt Galata, Istanbul, January 2016.

General Rapporteur: ArtCOP21 Professional Workshop. La GaîtéLyrique, Paris, December 2015.

Keynote Speaker: L'art queer du convivialisme et la complexitécomme expérience: La culture comme transformation dans les espacesde possibilité urbains. Dark Series – Second Assembly. Bétonsalon –Centre d'Art et de Recherche, Paris, November 2015.

Guest Speaker: Performance under Climatic Conditions. Klima-Sichten. TheaterBremen, Bremen, November 2015.

Observer (art project: “Triangulations.Life Map” by InvisiblePlayground); Guest Speaker: Arts and sustainable development of thecity. Imagining Obvodny: From mental maps to the image of thefuture. Arts for the City. Loft Your Mind co-working space, SaintPetersburg (Russia), October 2015.

Organizer and moderator: Urbane Möglichkeitsräume für eine Kulturder Nachhaltigkeit. 2. Cultura21 Forum – Teil 2 (bei 3. Kultur desWandels Fest), Hannover, September 2015.

Paper Presentation: Performing Contracts: BDSM, Performance Artand Aesthetics of Complexity. ESA (European SociologicalAssociation) Conference: Differences, Inequalities and SociologicalImagination, Prague (Czech Rep.), August 2015.

Workshop Organizer and moderator: Expanding aesthetics of complexity through the alchemy of BDSM: a conversational drift. Xplore Berlin Festival, Berlin, July 2015.

Participant: World-Café zum Kulturprogramm der HamburgerOlympia/Paralympics Bewerbung. Kampnagel, Hamburg, July 2015.

Participant: Future-U: Futures of the University and Universities ofthe Future? Leuphana University Lüneburg, June 2015.

Organizer , and presentation on “Approaching the urban as a space ofpossibilities, with elements of sensory ethnography”. Das 2. Cultura21Forum – Teil 1: “Urbane Möglichkeitsräume für eine Kultur derNachhaltigkeit: Erkundung des Kölner Tag des guten Lebens”, Köln,May 2015.

Moderator: “Plenary III: Transformations: Towards sustainable waysof life”. International Conference: Culture(s) in Sustainable Futures:theories, policies, practices, Helsinki (Finland), May 2015.

Keynote Speaker: Plenary Round Table: “Cross-disciplinaryperspectives of creativity and sustainability”, + Paper presentation:“Music and Sustainability: organizational cultures towards creativeresilience”. ARTEMOCC 2015: 1st ARTEM Organizational CreativityInternational Conference, Nancy (France), March 2015.

Organizer : “WATERWASH and the Zen Art of Sustainability”.Workshop with Lillian Ball, Künstlerhaus, Hannover, March 2015.

Keynote Speaker: “Aesthetics of complexity, artists and resilientcommunities in urban anthropo-scenes”, & Panelist: “Review Room /Round Table: Art work for cultural resilient community and ecologicalsustainability”. Art Agora 2014: “Art & Sustainability”, Seoul(Korea), Nov. 2014.

Keynote Speaker: “Cities as anthroposcenes and urban resilience”.Seminar “Gathering of the ar(c)t(ic) tribes 2”, Mo i Rana (Norway),Oct. 2014.

Guest Speaker: “Aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive”.Symposium: “Wissenschaft trifft Kunst”, HfbK (Hochschule fürbildende Künste), Hamburg, Oct. 2014.

Guest Speaker: “Ecological art, transdisciplinarity and urbanresilience”. Debate: “Ecological Collapse: art, research, activism –how to shape alliances”, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo (Norway), Sept. 2014.

Panelist: Symposium "An Den Rändern Mittendrin: Kunst & Stadt".P/ART – Producers ArtFair, Hamburg, Sept. 2014.

Guest Speaker: “The emergence of creative sustainable cities”, &Panelist. City Link Congress: “Cities, culture & sustainability”,HafenCity University, Hamburg, Sept. 2014.

Organizer and moderator: Cluj Transect Walk (and feedback session).8th Conference of the Sociology of the Arts Research Network of theEuropean Sociological Association (ESA): “Art and its contexts:cross-disciplinary dialogue”, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca(Romania), Sept. 2014.

Paper presentation: “The city as anthropo-scene? Art and urban spacesof possibility in the Anthropocene”. 8th Conference of the Sociologyof the Arts Research Network of the ESA: “Art and its contexts: cross-disciplinary dialogue”, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca(Romania), Sept. 2014.

Panelist: “Urban-Futures-Talk – Stadt gemeinsam gestalten”. Kulturdes Wandels Fest, Hannover, June 2014.

Organizer and moderator: “Praeter Naturam: Beyond Nature” -workshop with Brandon Ballengée, Leuphana University, Lüneburg,June 2014.

Keynote Speaker: “Cultures of sustainability: Transdisciplinaryresearch cultures”. COST Symposium “Cultures of Sustainability inthe Age of Climate Crisis”, Telemark University College, Bø iTelemark (Norway), May 2014.

Keynote Speaker: “The City is our Anthropo-Scene! Art as a Verb andUrban Sustainability Transformation”. i Light Symposium, Singapore,March 2014.

Participant: “Pioniere des Wandels - Transformationsforschung füreine Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit” (“transformative symposium”).Research In Community, Rachel Carson Center & Heinrich BöllFoundation, Berlin, Oct. 2013.

Plenary speaker (via videoconference): “Complexity as experience:aesthetics towards cultures of sustainability”. The Aesthetics ofSustainability Conference, Curtin University, Perth (Australia), Sept.2013.

Paper presentation: "Toward an Ecological Critique in Art? On Art

Criticism in Times of Ecological Crisis". "Crisis, Critique andChange" - 11th Conference of the ESA, Torino (Italy), Aug. 2013.

“Opponent” at the PhD defense: “At the Heart of Art and Earth: AnExploration of Practices in Arts-based Environmental Education”.Aalto University, Helsinki (Finland), Aug. 2013.

Guest Speaker: “Towards Sustainable Creative Cities – Contributionsfrom artist-based initiatives”. Common Spaces – Labor fürnachhaltige Stadtentwicklung – Festival “Odyssee: Klima”.Stadttheater Bremerhaven, June 2013.

Participant: “Footwork” (walkshop). Walking Artists Network,University of East London (UK), June 2013.

Guest Speaker: "Creative cities and the challenge of sustainability".Artists, Art Communities and Creative Initiatives in the Urban Spacesof Russia and Europe - Open Interdisciplinary Seminar series“Scientific Environment” - Center for German and European Studies,St Petersburg State University (Russia), May 2013.

Organizer and moderator: Panel: "Autogestion: Self-Organization andSocial Transformation" (with Shelley Sacks, John Jordan and IsabelleFrémeaux). Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität. Konferenzwoche2013. Lüneburg, Feb. 2013.

Guest speaker: "Art and Sustainability: Aesthetics of Complexity”.Mohile Parikh Center (in collaboration with Goethe Institut), Mumbai(India), Oct. 2012.

Guest speaker: "The Serendipedestrian". Moving On symposium -Sideways 2012. Zutendaal (Belgium), Sept. 2012.

Paper presentation: "The practice of ecological art". "Artisticpractices" - 7th Conference of the Sociology of the Arts ResearchNetwork at the European Sociological Association (ESA), Vienna(Austria), Sept. 2012.

Paper presentation: "Serendipitous learning of NatureCulture'sComplexity: What can embodied knowing mean for Sustainability?"Workshop "Körperwahrnehmung - Körperrepräsentation", IKKK,Leuphana University Lüneburg, July 2012.

Moderator: "Peninsula Europe: The Force Majeure Works" -Workshop and panel discussion with Helen Mayer Harrison andNewton Harrison. KIM (innovation incubator) and Kunstraum of theLeuphana University Lüneburg, June 2012.

Guest speaker: "No Sustainability without Culture of Sustainability:Art's role toward global (environ)mental change". Seminar Series2012 - Art for the City, ASK (Art, Science and Knowledge),Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano (Italy), May 2012.

Paper presentation: "Art's role toward sustainability: ecoculturesrequire a sensibility to complexity". Ecocultures 2012 Conference,University of Essex, Colchester (UK), April 2012.

Paper presentation: "Aesthetics of Sustainability: a transdisciplinaryapproach requires a sensibility to complexity". LeuphanaSustainability Summit - "Sustainability: Enabling a TransdisciplinaryApproach", Leuphana University Lüneburg, February-March 2012.

Symposium speaker: “Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns fora Culture of Complexity”. Symposium session 4478: “Science,

Sustainability, and the Arts”, American Association for theAdvancement of Science (AAAS) 2012 Annual Meeting, Vancouver(Canada), February 2012.

Moderator of the semi-plenary forum (panel discussion) "Connectingand Catalyzing: Aesthetics + Community + Ecology toward a cultureof sustainability". “Radius of Art” conference, Heinrich BöllFoundation, Berlin, February 2012.

Guest speaker: "Art and Sustainability - die Kunst derNachhaltigkeit". HfbK, Hamburg, November 2011.

Guest participant at "Tipping Point India", Bangalore (India),November 2011.

Co-organizer, and Speech on “Gardens and aesthetics ofsustainability”. Cultura21 Forum: “The Cultivation of Ecology/-ies:gardens and complexity in rural and urban areas”, Studio Kunst undLandschaft, Hude (near Oldenburg), September 2011.

2x Papers presentations: “Connecting Patterns: Sustainability and theCulture of Complexity”, + “Some roles of artists and inter-/trans-disciplinary projects in the emergence of sustainable creative cities”.European Sociological Association (ESA) 10th Conference: “SocialRelations in Turbulent Times”, Geneva (Switzerland), September2011.

Guest speaker: “Aesthetics of Sustainability: Fostering a sensibility tocomplexity” ; & systems thinking game facilitator - at the "Midi de laRecherche" in the framework of the "Chaire Arts & SustainableEnterprise" at the ICN Business School, Nancy (France), June 2011.

Coordinator: “Can Artists Change China?” Lecture by S. Kagan, film,and panel debate (with e.g. Roger Buergel and a Chinese human rightsactivist) around the arrest of Ai Weiwei. Organized by FédérationInternationale des Droits de l’Homme and Cultura21. LeuphanaUniversität Lüneburg, June 2011.

Guest speaker: “Sustainability as the handling of complexity: anoverview about art and sustainability”. "Can and do EuropeanCapitals of Culture contribute to a Culture of Sustainability?", ameeting organized jointly by Poiein kai Prattein and Cultura21 Nordicat the Universität der Künste Berlin, May 2011.

Guest speaker: “Initiatives Art & Ecologie”. ‘Atelier Art, Ecologie &Développement Durable’, COAL and the French Ministry of Ecology,Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France), March 2011.

Guest speaker: “Wealth and Sustainability - Which wealth for whichsustainability?” Open University, ‘Ready to Change’ Forum(Sostenuto project ‘Thinking culture as a factor of economic andsocial innovation’), Bunker, Ljubljana (Slovenia), Dec 2010.

Research Session Coordinator: “The cultures of unsustainability”, +paper presentation: “From the Unsustainable Creative Class to theSustainable Creative City: An Emerging Shift in Cultural Policies?”.ESA Research Network Sociology of Culture, 3rd mid-termConference: “Culture and the Making of Worlds”, Università Bocconi,Milano (Italy), Oct. 2010.

Workshop Coordinator: “Sustainable Creative Cities: The role of thearts in globalized urban context”. 4th Connecting Civil Societies ofAsia and Europe Conference: “Changing Challenges, New Ideas”. An

official side-event of the ASEM8 Summit, Brussels (Belgium), Oct.2010.

Presentation ('World Café' format) of the Karamoja campaign. "Vonder Internationalisierung der Hochschule zur TranskulturellenWissenschaft". InternationaleFrauen Universität und LeuphanaUniversität Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Sept. 2010.

Guest speaker: “Walking as art-science and as action-research forsocial transformation”. Festival Kanal International Symposium,Brussels, Sept 2010.

Opening Speech: “Walking and Places: building transformations”ASSiST Summer School, Gabrovo (Bulgaria), Aug. 2010.

Member of the Expert Panel of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF):conference “Culture|Futures: The transition to an ecological age”(alongside the UN Climate Change conference). Danish CulturalInstitute, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Dec. 2009.

Guest speaker-participant: "Qué TAL? - Transdisciplinary Action-Research & Literacy". 2009 Summit of the World Alliance for ArtsEducation (WAAE): "Towards a Paradigm of Creative Education forthe 21st Century". Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, Newcastle (UK),Oct.-Nov. 2009.

2x guest speaker: "arts and cultures of sustainability" + "art, socialchange and research". Europe-Latin-American Symposium "Focus onArt for Social Transformation: Art as a catalyst for Political,Economic, Social and Environmental Development". European Centerfor the Arts Hellerau, Dresden, May 2009.

Panelist: Panel Discussion on "Our responsibility for threatenedindigenous people in our globalized world". Native and IndigenousFilm Fest. Mazarykiana Brunensis Universitas & Moravské ZemskéMuzeum, Brno (Czech Republic), May 2009.

Panel organizer + paper presentation. Panel: "Pastoralism,sustainability and the complexity of humanitarian crises in Africa:comparative analyses and case studies". Paper: "The KaramojaSyndrome: Transdisciplinary systems research informing policy andadvocacy". World Conference of Humanitarian Studies. University ofGroningen (Netherlands), Feb. 2009.

Panelist (debate on "Re-Routing Mobility") and guest speaker (on"Re-Writing the Future"). Burning Ice, Festival-Conference on art andclimate change. KAAI Theater, Brussels, Jan. 2009.

Panel moderator: "The multifaceted impact of climate change:pastoralism". Conference: "Climate Change and Security in Africa",organized by EGMONT, ACTED, CERI and CEAN. Sciences PoParis, Jan. 2009.

Panel moderator: "What future for pastoralist societies in EastAfrica?" International Conference: "The future of traditional societiesin Africa: The situation of the Karamoja region of Uganda".University of Groningen in collaboration with ACTED. Groningen(Netherlands), Nov. 2008.

Book discussion: Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts andcultures. "Arts, Culture and the Public Sphere: Expressive andInstrumental Values In Economic and Sociological Perspectives."Joint conference of the Arts RN and Culture RN of the ESA. Venezia,

Nov. 2008.

Coordinator , introductory speech: International Conference "EuropeanAwareness of Sustainability in Africa: Issues of Pastoralism".Leuphana Universität Lüneburg in collaboration with ACTED,Lüneburg, Oct. 2008.

Panel moderator: "Climate for Change: Sustainable and CreativeSolutions. Food, Shelter, Mobility and Clothing: How does climatechange affect our basic needs and which sustainable solutions are welooking for?". Asia-Europe Dialogue on Arts, Culture & ClimateChange. International Conference, Central Academy of Fine Arts,Beijing, Oct. 2008.

Guest participant: TippingPoint Germany 2008. Open Spaceconference at the PIK (Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung),Postdam, Sept. 2008.

Guest speaker: about the film "Land of Thorns" by Steffen Keulig andSacha Kagan. 3e Salon international des Initiatives de Paix. LaVillette, Paris, May 2008.

Panelist: "Indigenous livestock breeds and livelihoods in marginalareas. From 'destroyers of the environment' to custodians ofbiodiversity: How can pastoralists change their image?" PlanetDiversity: World Congress on the Future of Food and Agriculture.Bonn, May 2008.

Panelist (by videoconferencing to reduce carbon emissions):"Greening the Arts: A Symposium to Explore a Role for the Arts inCreating a Sustainable World". Level Green Institute & the USInitiative for the UN Decade on Education for SustainableDevelopment. April 2008, Ithaca (N.Y., USA).

Plenary speech: "Arts and Intercultural Competence for Sustainability:The Case of Dance." Guest Speech for the launch of the EuropeanYear of Intercultural Dialogue in Lithuania, InternationalInterdisciplinary Conference "The Dynamics of Intercultural Dialoguein Lithuania and Europe: Experience, Practice, Prospects". NationalLibrary of Lithuania, Vilnius. March 2008.

Co-Moderation: "Can Art Matter? Conference opening", The Art ofEngagement Online Conference, Islands Institute, Vancouver, Canada,October 2007.

Presentation: "The 'Leuphana' culture: Unsustainability in universityreforms". Cultura21 guest day: "The cultural Dimension ofSustainability - Towards an ecology of culture", Biennale di Venezia,Collateral Event: Joseph Beuys “Difesa della Natura – The LivingSculpture: Kassel 1977-Venezia 2007”. Thetis New Arsenal, Venezia(Italy), Sept. 2007.

Paper presentation: "Some Artists' Engagement in Sustainability: aQualitative Empirical Survey in Hamburg". + Workshop coordinator:"Free Software and Copyleft: bottom up models for cultures ofsustainability?" + Plenary response to David Haley's Keynote Lecture"The Limits of Sustainability: The Art of Ecology". Conference of theESA (European Sociological Association) Sociology of the ArtsResearch Network, Lüneburg, March-April 2007.

Guest speaker: "The 'too many artists' syndrome". Teach-In Program:“Crosskick - Critiques Croisées”, Halle Für Kunst e.V. and CCC

(Critical Curatorial Cybermedia) Programm of the Haute école d’Artet de design in Geneva, Lüneburg, Jan. 2007.

Keynote Speech: "Recent trends in arts financing and the role of thecultural entrepreneur". International Conference "Ice-free Culture2006: Towards a new discourse on the management of culture",Klaipeda (Lithuania), Nov.-Dec. 2006.

Paper presentation: Sacha Kagan and Hans Abbing, "PolityConventions in Art Worlds: the constitution of authorityconfigurations", STP&A (Social Theory, Politics and Arts) 32ndannual conference, Vienna, July 2006.

Paper co-author: Hans Abbing and Sacha Kagan, "Social Price ",ACEI (Association for Cultural Economics International) conference,Vienna, July 2006.

Speaker: "Formal and informal economic and social barriers in the artworlds", Forschungskolloquium: Kultur und Gesellschaft, UniversitätLüneburg, Nov. 2005.

Paper presentation: "The artist and social change: Entrepreneurship inConventions", Sociology of the Arts Research Network, 7thConference of the European Sociological Association, Torun (Poland),Sept. 2005.

Workshop Coordinator: "Intercultural Dance for Social Cohesion",Erasmus Genootschap voor Cultuurmanagement, Rotterdam(Netherlands), May 2004.

Coordinator : Round Table on policies for migrating tsiganepopulations around Bordeaux, Sciences Po Bordeaux (France), May2003.

Report presentation + Workshop co-coordination: "Het Kunst vanDuurzaamheidscommunicatie", Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam,AIDA (Atelier voor Interactive Duurzaamheid Activiteiten) andMilieuBeleid GemeenteWerken Rotterdam, Aug. 2002.

Co-organizer and co-moderator: Plenary debate with the painter PaulRebeyrolle, Rencontres IEP-Sud-Ouest, Sciences Po Bordeaux, Jan.2001.

Reviewer

City, Culture and Society

Curator

Ecology and Society

Empowering Sustainability International Journal

Gaia

Jahrbuch Kulturmanagement

Journal of Cleaner Production

Minerva

Music and Arts in Action

Routledge - Earthscan - Environment and Sustainability (books series)

Sustainability

Sustainability Science

Sustainable Development (Wiley)

Urban Geography

Visual Communication

COURSES TAUGHT

Seminars taught at the Leuphana University (2005-2018)

Film project 'The City as Space of Possibility' – BA-level, WinterSemester (WS) 2017-2018

Analyzing urban experimental social-cultural practices (cases fromHannover) – BA-level, WS 2017-2018

The practice of Artistic Urban Intervention – BA-level, SummerSemester (SoSe) 2017

Tales from Spaces of Possibility: Exploring and questioningapproaches to turn an urban (social, cultural and arts-based) researchinto an audio-visual story – BA-level, SoSe 2017

Design Thinking and Sustainability in theory and practice –‘LehrForschungsProjekt’, MA-level, SoSe 2017

"Wake Up Rosie!" Assessing & revealing the potential of Hanoverianmuseums for urban sustainable development – BA-level, WS 2016-2017

Artful Sustainability through arts-based research: students-ledexperiments in Hannover – MA-level ('Komplementärstudium'), WS2016-2017

Masterforum Soziologie und Kulturorganisation – MA-level, WS2016-2017

Artful knowing and research for urban sustainability: development ofsmall-scale student-research for Hannover – MA-level('Komplementärstudium'), SoSe 2016

Walking with Urban Cultures: Sinnliche Erforschung der Stadt alsMöglichkeitsraum – BA-level, SoSe 2016.

Urban Cultures seek Sustainability – BA-level, WS 2015-2016, WS2013-2014.

Engaging with artful knowing and research – MA-level('Komplementärstudium'), WS 2015-2016.

Creativity and Sustainability at Cultural Organizations – MA-level,SoSe 2016, SoSe 2015, SoSe 2014.

Social and ecological artistic practices, BA-level, SoSe 2015.

Walking-based methods in social, cultural and arts-based research,BA-level, SoSe 2015.

Art and Climate Change. Cooperation with the transnational artproject Hajusom, Hamburg – BA-level, SoSe 2015.

The Art of Percipience – animistic approaches and artistic-culturalpractices, BA-level – WS 2014-2015.

Creative/Cultural Urban Development and Sustainability, BA-level –WS 2014-2015.

Performance and the Queer – theoretical and practical approaches –BA-level, WS 2014-2015.

Action research, sensory and arts-based methods for transformative

research – BA-level, SoSe 2014.

Cultures of Sustainability in municipal cultural policy – the case ofHannover – BA-level, SoSe 2014.

Performance, Dance and Embodied Knowing in the City – BA-level,WS 2013-2014.

Art and Artists in Urban Development – The Example of New York(with Excursion) – BA-level, WS 2013-2014.

Cultural turns in sustainability discourses – BA-level, WS 2013-2014.

The Global Classroom – Sustainable Cities – BA-level('Komplementärstudium'), experimental transatlantic education projectwith Arizona State University, WS 2012-2013, SoSe 2013.

Museums as agents of social change? - BA-level, WS 2012-2013,SoSe 2014.

City, Creativity, and the Arts – MA-level ('research project seminar'),WS 2012-2013

Ecological art in theory and practice: from social sculpture to queerecologies - Leuphana Semester (BA, 1st semester), "ModulVerantwortung", WS 2012-2013

Artistic Innovation in Urban Settings: The Art Scenes in Cities of the"Global South" - MA-level, SoSe 2012 – followed by a “Study Tour” ofthe art scenes in Mumbai (Oct. 2012).

Methods for the Organization and Communication of Arts and Culture- Action Research, Arts-Based Research and Qualitative Methods - BA-level, SoSe 2012, SoSe 2013.

Art and Sustainability: Looking into the Lagoon Cycle by Helen andNewton Harrison - Leuphana Semester (BA, 1st semester), "ModulVerantwortung", WS 2011-2012.

The Organization of Culture - The Sustainability Perspective - BA-level, WS 2011-2012.

Studying the audience for the arts - BA-level, WS 2011-2012.

Green Aesthetics - BA-level, SoSe 2011.

Social and economic organization in the worlds of arts and culture -BA-level, SoSe 2011, WS 2009-2010.

Introduction to Cultural Economics - BA-level, WS 2010-2011.

Cultural Policy in international comparison - BA-level, WS 2010-2011.

Social Theories in Art - BA-level, WS 2010-2011.

Cultural mediation - BA-level, SoSe 2010.

Walking as transformative action-research in the arts and sciences –BA-level ('Komplementärstudium'), SoSe 2010.

Evolution and Culture – BA ('Komplementärstudium')- & Magister-levels, WS 2009-2010.

Arts audiences and art reception - Magister-level, SoSe 2009.

Sustainability through the performing arts? - BA ('Komplementärstudium')- & Magister-levels, SoSe 2009.

European awareness of sustainability in Africa (Karamoja, Uganda) -Magister-, Diplom-, & BA-levels ("Kompl.stud." + Kulturwiss.+UmweltWiss.), SoSe 2008 & WS 2008-2009.

Art and social change - Magister-level, WS 2008-2009.

Social responsibility in documentary film-making - LeuphanaSemester (BA, 1st semester), "Modul Verantwortung", WS 2008-2009.

The ecology of culture – the culture of ecology – Magister- &Diplom-levels, SoSe 2008.

Introduction to culture and economy - Magister-level, WS 2005-2006,WS 2006-2007, WS 2007-2008.

The cultures of nanotechnologies and (un)sustainability: Seminar withproject work on a future art exhibition - Leuphana Semester (BA, 1stsemester), "Modul Verantwortung", WS 2007-2008.

Contemporary dance in the US and France: An interdisciplinaryintroduction to dance studies - Magister-level, WS 2007-2008.

Art worlds between reproduction and change - Magister-level, SoSe2007.

Environmental art, intervention art and others: Towards sustainabilityart? - Magister-level, SoSe 2007.

Arts audience studies - Magister-level, WS 2006-2007, SoSe 2005.

Art worlds and conventions - Magister-level, SoSe 2006.

Sustainability and art - Magister- & Diplom-levels, SoSe 2006.

Introduction to theories of cultural institutions - Magister-level, SoSe2005.

Other courses and workshops taught

Invited Workshop giver: “Die Stadt Hannover as Möglichkeitsraumund die Beiträge kreativer und kultureller Prozesse zur urbanerTransformation”. Promotionskolleg, Leibniz ForschungszentrumTRUST, Leibniz Universität Hannover, September 2018.

Invited Workshops Giver on discourses on culture and sustainability,on applied sensory ethnography, and on systems thinking games, at theSDG Graduate School ‘Performing Sustainability. Cultures andDevelopment in West Africa’ (DAAD-funded, coordinated by Universityof Hildesheim). University of Cape Coast, Ghana, March 2018.

Guest lecturer: “Sustainability Research, Culture and Music”.Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, November 2017.

Invited Workshop Giver: “Village Triangles” (a corporeal game tolearn systems thinking and qualitative complexity). PIPAUSPostgraduate Program in Arts, Urbanities and Sustainability. FederalUniversity of Sao Joao del Rei, Brazil, October 2017.

Guest lecturer: “Artful Sustainability: The imagination of world-making versus the fiction of planning”, Ringvorlesung „Nachhaltigkeitinterdisziplinär. Anstöße für den Übergang“, Universität Greifswald,June 2016.

Invited Workshop Giver: “Urban Spaces of Possibility”, as 3 ecologias(festival directed by Vera Mantero), Teatro Maria Matos. Lisbon, April2016.

Guest lecturer: "Artful Sustainability Studies: Of aesthetics ofcomplexity and radical open citizenship”, Science, Sustainability and ArtSeries, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg / Freiburg Scientific Theatre e.V., June 2015.

Guest lecturer: "Art & Sustainability (with some thoughts ontheatre)”, NachDenkStatt 2014 - Workshop “Gesellschaftlicher Wandeldurch Theater!?”, Universität Oldenburg, November 2014.

Guest lecturer: "Art, creative cities and cultures of sustainability:Searching for (aesth)ethics of complexity". Roskilde University (incollaboration with Institut Français of Denmark), March 2013.

Guest lecturer, on cities, art and cultures of sustainability, in theMaster of Science in Economics and Management in Arts, Culture,Media and Entertainment. Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi,Milano (Italy), May 2012.

Guest Lecturer: On Sustainability and the Arts, at the HKU (UtrechtSchool of the Arts), Utrecht, Sept. 2008.

Guest Lecturer and workshop giver: On Systems Thinking, Arts,Cultures and Sustainability. On Systems Thinking and the KaramojaAwareness Raising Campaign. Geneva University of Art and Design,CCC Program. Geneva, April 2008.

Workshops coordinator and moderator: Introducing Systems Thinking,the Syndrome Approach and the Karamoja Campaign (with ACTED).Universities of Bordeaux (Université Bordeaux 3, Sciences PoBordeaux) and Groningen (RUG), March 2008.

Workshop coordinator and moderator: "The win-win strategy ofsystems thinking: A workshop based on games for business beyondcompetition". 2. DSI Konferenz: Business Case for Sustainability.Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. Nov. 2007.

Workshop coordinator and moderator: "Learning Sustainabilitythrough Games". DSI Symposium, Universität Lüneburg, Nov. 2006.

ARTISTIC WORK

[NB: Several of my workshops and teaching listed in the sections above integrate arts-based elements too.]

2018 Leuphana University LüneburgProducer & Director: documentary film “Hanother: urbane Möglichkeitsräume für nachhaltige Entwicklung” (English title: “Hanother: urban spaces of possibilities for sustainable futures”) See www.facebook.com/hanother.film

2017 Das Wundersame Aktionsbündnis der Tante Trottoir / Theater an der Glocksee, HannoverCollective, Tante Trust (urban art intervention, performance)

2013 Semmer Berlin (art gallery)(With Jenny Brown) Installation: “Be Seeing You” (as part of the exhibition “Many happy returns”)

2013 online (ecoartnetwork)Collective (ecoartnetwork), online media: “Gift of Return” (aboutthe New York City coastline reconstruction after Superstorm Sandy)

2008-2009 CCC programme - HEAD Genève, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg and ACTEDCollective, trans-situ intervention: “Caution Border” (in

Brussels, Groningen, Brno, Lüneburg, Dresden, Genève, Copenhagen)

2007–2008 ACTED and Marketfilm Productions(With Steffen Keulig) Director: documentary film “Land of Thorns: struggling for survival in Karamoja” See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1541856/?ref_=vi_md_ti

2007 Cultura21 LüneburgCollective, identity correction (website, video): “Leuphana21” - shown at the Venice Biennale 2007 side-event at Arsenale Novissimo

2006-2007 Halle für Kunst Lüneburg and Kunstraum Lüneburg (With Bettina Steinbrügge) Curator: art exhibition “Everything will be fine / alles wird gut”

2003-2004 Deelgemeente Noord Rotterdam(With Lyudmila Petrova) Producer & Director: Dance and art-management workshop “The energy of intercultural dance for social inclusion”

2002-2003 Sciences Po Bordeaux and Université Bordeaux 3(With David Knaute) Producer & Director: documentary film “Paroles Nomades”

2002 Erasmus Universiteit RotterdamCollective, art intervention: “Ego Travels”

2000-2001 FRAC Aquitaine (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain)Collective, Curatorium: exhibition “Imaginaires du Territoire : 2 fois plus de plaisir”

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