Sustainable Art Education

“ “…artistic practice is intrinsic and necessary to good thinking and to good science.”

-Donna Haraway

Art’s astute communication has the potential to disseminate sustainable reform and preservation strategies, fostering a greater consensus. Sustainable art education can place students in a pivotal role in transforming the environment by actively integrating green concepts and aesthetics into their innovative projects and initiatives.

Sustainable Art Education will set up a multi-layered educational structure for students in 3 different age groups. It will encourage them to explore productive creativity, take artistic action in a supportive environment, and ultimately help them explore their agency as cultural producers in an environmentally challenging world. Participants will play and experiment, producing work from their perspectives and becoming comfortable with new experiences, ideas, and materials to address the global issue of sustainable development.

#Public art

#Online Art campaign

#Eco art curriculum

#Multimedia Archive

Projects in Action

Pottery art installations to boost biodiversity on EdUHK campus

“Waste Me Not”: Digital photography collage to promote waste reduction

Rooftop garden as art classroom for nature education

“You are what you grow”: A multimedia archive on food resilience

This art education activity involves workshops that produce student-made public art installations: small pottery installations to be placed around the EdUHK campus to “host” non-harmful biodiverse insects that are crucial to ecological resilience, such as beetles, butterflies, dragonflies, etc.

Through a series of workshops delivered by digital artists and photographers, this project will guide participants in creating a “digital collage” on social media to promote the waste-charging policy and build a waste-reduction culture in our city.

This sub-stream will develop a set of toolkits to introduce students to a broad array of approaches to art-making that constitute artistic ways to engage with nature. The physical toolkits will contain specially designed art supplies suitable for art making.

This sub-project seeks to build an e-archive to approach the issues of local food production, the history of agriculture in Hong Kong and its surroundings, and food resilience (memory) using urban farming practices and technologies. This multimedia e-archive will be a resource hub for environmental education in schools and universities.

Targeted Participants: EduHK students

Targeted Participants:

Local secondary school students

Targeted Participants:

Local primary school students

Engaged Parters:

Local and international experts and academics