REPORT ON EXHIBITION “THE COMING WORLD: ECOLOGY AS THE NEW POLITICS. 2030–2100”
The exhibition “The Coming World: Ecology as a New Policy” was a major event, marking the cutting edge of the development of contemporary art as part of the environmental movement and the reality in which modern humanity exists
NEWS OF THE PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION “CLEAN GAMES” (LEADER - DMITRY IOFFE)
"Clean Games" is a team competition to clean up natural areas from garbage and to separate waste. It is an exciting game with prizes, where participants look for artifacts, solve environmental puzzles, collect and share garbage, receiving points for this. Game statistics are kept in real time on the site and in the mobile application.
CONFERENCE REVIEW: «FROM THE ECOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD TO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT»
On March 17th and 18th, 2020, the 9th Conference on Environmental Psychology was held at the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education in Moscow. The conference examined the theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental psychology at the present stage of the field's development, the challenges for psychological and pedagogical support in forming ecological culture and ecological consciousness, the issues of a psychology of sustainable development and the risks caused by environmental challenges.
REPORT ON THE 19th ANNUAL GATHERING IN BIOSEMIOTICS IN MOSCOW
The 19th annual Biosemiotics Gathering that took place on 1–5 July 2019, was hosted by the Philosophy Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. That it was hosted by a philosophy faculty rather than a science faculty, and that it was hosted in Russia, are both significant. Biosemiotics is a challenge to mainstream biology, still struggling to gain acceptance despite the work of a great many researchers and a great many publications, along with nineteenannual biosemiotics gatherings.
THE FIRST CONFERENCE “ECOLOGICAL/EARTH-BASED ARTS THERAPIES: INTERNATIONAL AND MULTI-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
The conference is planned as a forum of innovative creative / expressive arts therapy practices based on the ideas and values of the environmental movement, ecopsychology and deep ecology, and aims to contribute to human health in its connection to environmental well-being. The conference will highlight the ecopoietic nature of human beings, their ability to shape the world in order to fulfill their needs and take care of the environment with an aim to see and create beauty.