Creative Futures is constantly looking for new ways the arts can impact and make real world change to our planet, society and life on the macro level, the human experience. Climate Change and environmental degradation are the biggest issues we face as a species right now. By using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), Creative Futures is looking to help to solve some of these challenges and rethink a better future for all.
Greenwich and the Environment podcast is a collaboration between Creative Futures and the Sustainable Development Unit at the University of Greenwich. Our aim is to discuss sustainability and creativity and how the two intersect.
Throughout the podcast series we will be speaking with researchers and academics from across the University who are looking to build a better world. We discuss how creativity, imagination and the arts play a vital role in solving these challenges.
Tune in fortnightly to hear incredible research and to gain a little bit of hope for our collective future.
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Episodes
04. Slow Down In Nature With Us - Dr Hannah Lammin & Anushka Athique Winterbottom
Listen to Dr Hannah Lammin and Anushka Athique Winterbottom discuss their practice-based research, using bodies, movement and slowing down to connect with nature. In this episode, we invite you to experience your own embodied practice in nature by listening in a natural setting and hopefully, by the end you will feel more connected to nature too.
03. Rethinking Cities: What Needs To Change? - Dr Emilio Costales
In this episode Dr Emilio Costales, Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation discusses gentrification in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, what exactly a "smart city" is, and how the way we design our cities can either strengthen or weaken the communities that live there.
02. The Water Crisis: Earth and Beyond - Professor Benz Kotzen
In this episode we speak with Professor Benz Kotzen, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Nature Based Solutions. Benz discusses how his early career in fine art, growing up in apartheid South Africa and studying desert plants have all played a pivotal role in developing his “forever career” where he explores the water crisis and how his research might just be used in the first human missions to Mars.
01. Are We At War With Animals? - Professor Stacy Banwell
Join us as we chat with Professor Stacy Banwell about her book The War Against Non-Human Animals: A Non-Speciesist Understanding of Gendered Reproductive Violence. She explores the connections between modern farming and war, challenging the way we think about our use of animals.