Ecoscenography conversations1

The global ecological crisis calls for a new approach to theatre making that overturns the ‘take, make and dispose’ production model that has become so intrinsic to the performing arts. Ecoscenography is a burgeoning movement that interweaves creative, environmental, social and cultural aspects of performance design to produce ecologically sensitive and evocative spatial experiences. The neologism has its roots in Australian fringe theatre and freelance design practices, many of which take pride in shoe-string budgets, site-specific, ad hoc and non-traditional forms of theatre making. Ecological re-considerations of performance design have emerged through these grassroot experiences which continue to be a vital foundation for Australia’s thriving theatre community. Nevertheless, there is still very little written about sustainability in the performing arts (both in Australia and beyond), particularly from the perspective of the scenographer. This dialogic article is a conversation between two Australian-based scenographers who are passionate about bringing an ecological ethos into performance design. The article explores Ecoscenography ‘in conversation’ by drawing out common perspectives and experiences to demonstrate how an ecological ethic can inspire the performance maker’s creative process. We discuss our trials and tribulations of sustainable practice, from our first engagement with the topic, to our aspirations for the future of the field. The result is a candid, tangible and personal account of what it means to be an ecoscenographer in an increasingly turbulent (but hopeful) world.

Ecological Ethics in the Jewish Community Farming Movement

In the early twenty-first century, a number of Jews concerned about their increasing detachment from food production systems decided to reclaim an ancient Jewish agricultural past by growing their own food in community settings. On “Jewish community farms” today educators and farmers blend Jewish agricultural laws culled from biblical and rabbinic sources and contemporary sustainable agricultural science into a Jewish ecological ethic. This ethic gives their work common purpose even as each community farm develops independently. Drawing on ethnographic interviews conducted over three years at sixteen Jewish community farming organizations, this chapter contextualizes this ever-expanding movement of Jews who grow food and the relationships that they build with humans, plants, and animals in the process.

An Analytical Study On Air Pollution: Perspective Of The Environmental

Analyzed that the Scientists and Geographers have provided scientific and meteorological evidence of patterns of alter into climatic circumstances of the globe with the resulting conclusion that the global warming is quickly happening & the on-going global warming is anthropogenic into the nature since people continue to extremely burn that fossil fuel as Oil & Gas; Coal & fuel wood. In this paper has to recognize how obtained to that point of forthcoming catastrophe, how susceptible Indians have, particularly those who live into the environmentally deprived regions. The consequence of this alters over the socio-economic growth of people will too investigated whereas adaptation developmental practices that can be adopted into the order to alleviate impending disaster will be proffered. The study made exercise of both primary & secondary data on result of the climate change phenomenon & relevant already published data on nature & consequence of climate change into the India. Now a day’s problem of environment degradation is increasing so there is need to control over it. Explained that the magistrates has opined that the right of human beings over ecological safeguard over countenances of similar coin. During the modern India, ecological Jurisprudence is plays pivotal role to safeguard of environment from degradation. The damage reasoned towards the environment by the poisonous gases & secretions, industrial sewages, plastic squander, misuse of natural resources such as forests, soil, water supplemented through other equally significant factors such as population explosion, poverty, health danger, disintegration into quality of existence have gained disturbing measurement that cry to novel ecological ethic command & justice into the Indian

Recognising an Ecological Ethic of Care in the Law of Everyday Shared Spaces

Law plays a vital role in the life and loss of open shared spaces, used and enjoyed on an everyday basis by local people. In this article, we adopt an analytical framework based on an ethic of care to critique the registration of land as a ‘town or village green’, using the example of an inquiry into the greens status of an ancient woodland. Analysing written and oral witness statements in this inquiry makes clear the centrality of such places in many people’s lives, giving rise to community-based, and forward-looking, interests. However, the legal focus upon quantitative assessments of individuals’ use of land in the recent past means that the prospective consequences of losing such valued areas are currently poorly acknowledged, and accounted for, in the registration process. This leads to the question whether an ethic of care towards everyday shared spaces may be better recognised via more deliberative plan-making regimes.