Why Luminous Green?
Before we start the afternoon’s sessions, I’d like to say a few words about the why and how of Luminous Green, to give you a bit broader context of today’s activities. We (by we I mean FoAM) organised Luminous Green to allow us to reflect on the relevance & importance of creative practices, such as art and design, for the current environmental debates. These debates, as we all know have come from the peripheries into prominence during the past decade due to accelerated ecological and social instabilities. Most of these discussions are now revolving around mitigating the effects of climate change through economic, political and social measures. With Luminous Green, we’d like to broaden the topic – it is not just about carbon emissions and global warming, but about preparing for- and adapting to a life in turbulent social, economic and environmental conditions. There are at least three important things that our sector can bring to these discussions: an integrated approach to unwieldy pro