Semin S. C. Duran, James N. Furze (2022) Capturing awareness and realisation. 7 Slide Presentation with oral commentary.pptx
1. Capturing awareness and realisation – artistically approaching the aesthetics of sustainability
1 Art and Design, Akdeniz University, Turkey. 2 Laboratory of Biotechnology and Valorization of Natural Resources,
Ibn Zohr University, Morocco. 3 Control and Systems Engineering Department, University of Technology-Iraq, Iraq
Semin Senim Cacho Duran1, James N. Furze2,3
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Fig. 1 Diversity and devastation of forest fires in Muğla, Marmaris, Turkey: a) before; b)
after (Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, August 2021)
Fig. 2 Climatic desolation and remedial solutions a) Greenland, ice sheet depletion (Matt
Mcgrath / BBC, 2020); b) urban-agriculture replacing diversity (Haber / News Centre, 2019)
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6. Fig. 9 Installations - A hilly landscape receding into an interior room ‘Not Red but Green’, Per Kristian Nygård, Oslo 2014,
creative expansion (Csikszentmihalyi 2013)
7. Acknowledgements
We acknowledge and are especially grateful to those who strive to live their lives in alignment with natural fluctuations in appreciating
their own artistic and behavioural qualities with that of the world around us.
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References
• Bourriaud N (2002) Relational aesthetics. Les Presses Du Réel, France ISBN: 9782840660606
• Csikszentmihalyi M (2013) Creativity the psychology of discovery and invention. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, New York ISBN:
9780062283252
• Liselotte J, Klöckner CA, Swim JK (2017) Visual art as a way to communicate climate change: a psychological perspective on climate
change–relatedart. World Art. https//:doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2017.1375002
Editor's Notes
Global-warming and environmental desolation generationally fire us into action to mitigate increased emergence of anomalies and extremes. Measures include: protection of systems integrity (sustainability), natural-ecosystems, energy-efficiency, governance and industry complementation. Awareness is universally accepted as a basic requirement enabling our responsibilities and daily-behaviour.
Art and its expression contemporise issues with ambiguous definitions of perception. Art appeals to our quantitative sentiment and qualifying value-judgement. Unconciously our minds realise and gain awareness. Awareness breeds protection of diversity and beauty; inspires ways of nurturing it, akin to circular-sustainability. Using art to sustain heightened-awareness causes long-term behavioural-change enabling ownership and responsibility for both local and global environment.
Current projects focus on understanding soil, watching a growing plant, and showing the effects of contaminants such as plastics. We anticipate awareness and realisation from individuals. Aware individuals affect their work-place, companies, home, children, tutors, employees, students, and loved-ones.
Multipronged contemporary methods: performing arts, land-art, digital-art, cartoon, impressionist and illustrative art are introduced in daily-life. In order to receive feedback and inclusively make visions available to public, business and governmental members (and allow input from each group) workshops complement dissemination.
Enlightened, bright-minds find ways of fostering and appreciating our planet following their unique perception, driven by embedded conditioning. Creativity is an important human-tool, without it humanity would be dull. Sustaining every resource is possible, including human’s will to live and emotional well-being. Mixtures of emotional sentiment and discrete ‘realised’ blocks of change are linked within symphonies and harmony, embodying our part in the beauty of the Earth.