Tarah Sharon Alexandra Wright

The role of the arts at the intersection of climate change and public Health: findings from an international survey

Elisabeth Bahr, Sammi Munson, Tarah Sharon Alexandra Wright, Marla Minkoff et autres

BACKGROUND: Climate change poses significant and escalating threats to public health globally, affecting physical and mental health through direct impacts such as extreme weather events and indirect pathways including food insecurity and displacement. Despite growing recognition of culture and the arts as …

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The Curatorial Anthropocene: An Analysis of Canadian Museums’ Engagement with the Climate Crisis—Exploring Perspectives on Precedent and Barriers

Lenka Tomlinson, Tarah Sharon Alexandra Wright

Museums hold the power to influence and educate the public on accessible levels, using multimedia displays and bite-sized pieces of information for digestible intake of scientific understanding and innovation. The intergenerational, and more accessible manner of museums holds the ability to educate …

Stimulating a Canadian narrative for climate

Catherine Potvin, Divya Sharma, Irena F. Creed, Sally N. Aitken et autres

This perspective documents current thinking around climate actions in Canada by synthesizing scholarly proposals made by Sustainable Canada Dialogues (SCD), an informal network of scholars from all 10 provinces, and by reviewing responses from civil society representatives to the scholars’ proposals. Motivated …

Stimulating a Canadian narrative for climate

Catherine Potvin, Divya Sharma, Irena F. Creed, Sally N. Aitken et autres

This perspective documents current thinking around climate actions in Canada by synthesizing scholarly proposals made by Sustainable Canada Dialogues (SCD), an informal network of scholars from all 10 provinces, and by reviewing responses from civil society representatives to the scholars’ proposals. Motivated …

Examining the Barriers and Drivers for Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions Across Canada Using a Social Movement Theory Lens

Jaylene Murray, Tarah Sharon Alexandra Wright

Understanding Impact in Sustainability and the Arts: A Delphi Study with CreativePEI

Emma Bugg, Tarah Sharon Alexandra Wright, Melanie Zurba

Creativity in climate adaptation

Emma Bugg, Tarah Sharon Alexandra Wright, Melanie Zurba

In the face of the climate emergency, it is becoming clear that cultural change is a necessary transformative shift that must occur to ensure human survival. Climate change is entangled with behavioural and social dimensions of our lives, necessitating that we undergo …

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Connecting Climate Change and Canadian Theatre: Reflecting on the Impact of the NAC’s Climate Cycle

Chiara Ferrero-Wong, Tarah Sharon Alexandra Wright

The arts have a unique way of affecting the way that people feel about environmental issues in ways that other forms of communication cannot. The National Arts Centre (NAC) Climate Cycle was a program that the NAC English Theatre developed as a …

Education for Sustainable Development

Tarah Sharon Alexandra Wright

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Care-full, convivial, curious: Weaving Canadian artists’ conceptions of art as a form of transformative environmental education

Jennifer Yakamovich, Tarah Sharon Alexandra Wright

Addressing global climate change beyond short-term fixes requires wider cultural change. Artists, as cultural workers, play a valuable role in attending to questions of social and ecological justice. While there is growing artistic engagement with environmental research, there are few studies which …

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Field Environmental Philosophy: A Biocultural Ethic Approach to Education and Ecotourism for Sustainability

Alejandra Tauro, Jaime Ojeda, Terrance Caviness, Kelli P. Moses et autres

To contribute to achieving local and global sustainability, we propose a novel educational methodology, called field environmental philosophy (FEP), which orients ecotourism practices to reconnect citizens and nature. FEP is based on the systemic approach of the biocultural ethic that values the …

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Creative Makings-With-Environment: Canada-Based Artists’ Conceptualizations of the Role of Art in Socioecological Transformation

Jennifer Yakamovich, Tarah Sharon Alexandra Wright