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
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.
CONFERENCE REVIEW: “ECOLOGICAL/EARTH-BASED ARTS THERAPIES: INTERNATIONAL AND MULTI-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
On the eighth and ninth of August, 2020, the conference "Environmental art therapy: international and multicultural perspectives" was held online, reflecting the increasing importance of environmental issues for the creative/expressive arts therapies and their growing connections to the ecological movement, ecotherapy, ecopsychology, ecological education, and environmental art.
GATHER YE ROSEBUDS WHILE YE MAY: A POETIC PUPPETRY EXPERIMENT FOR CONCRETE CABARET’S COLLABORATION
In Toronto in June 2020, an online puppet cabaret composed of short pieces all arising out of collaborative improvisations took place. The piece that most caught attention, was “Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May,” and seemed to strike a chord corresponding to the strange situation we are in, using the advanced technology of Zoom to put together a life that longs for direct contact with the earth.