Curating Cities
A five year collaborative research project examining how the arts can generate environmentally beneficial behaviour change and influence the development of green infrastructure in urban environments.
Carbon Arts is partnering with UNSW’s National Institute of Experimental Arts [NIEA], City of Sydney and Object Gallery to advance a cutting-edge arts-driven approach to ecological urbanism, in which curators move beyond designated cultural spaces such as galleries and museums to curate (literally ‘care for’) the city as whole, developing eco-sustainable public art to transform both public space and patterns of water, energy and food consumption.
For this project, we’ll be evaluating case studies of eco-sustainable public art projects in the US, Europe, Japan and Australia, with a view to providing a database available to city governments, developers and researchers. The project is also delivering a dynamic range of outcomes including exhibitions, workshops, public programs and major publications.
The project is supported by a Cooperative Research Council Grant and will run from 2011-2014
