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Proceedings of CARPA9
Ecological Design and Performance Pedagogies – Sustainable Practices and Interdisciplinary Acts in a Climate Changed World
Preface
Hanna Järvinen & Liisa Ikonen
Introduction
Closing Notes on CARPA9
How this book is organised
Strand I Ecological Design Practices
Anna Chrtková
How slow can we go? Staging sustainable spaces in the age of burnout
Katy Downton
Investigating the Theatre Green Book in education: A reflection of research-informed practice in the UK
Carly Everaert
Head seeks hand: Regenerative artistic research in costume design
Marija Griniuk
Maadtoe and performance
Gretchen Jude
The recuperative potential of sound: Audio pedagogy and greening media practice
Oona Leinovirtanen
Eating, touching, and tap dancing in the garden
Hiroko Oshima
Paper, plants, and performance: Reapproaching scenography by listening to ancestral knowledge
Snežana Pešić
Designing
The Trials
: Sustainable design practices in an educational setting
Rachel Young
Costuming the collapse – Threads of inquiry
Strand II Ecological Performance Making
Anne-Lise Brevers
Hyperwithin: A shy dramaturgy in shadowtimes
Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski, Alejandro Olarte & Pascale Weber
Electroacoustic performance in urban outdoor – Solar-powered instruments and the emergence of a performance milieu
Juliana España Keller
The vegetal witness: Posthuman choreographies of collapse and regeneration through butoh and generative AI
Aldith Gauci
Aesthetic responses to crisis: Jola masquerades
Riina Hannula & Kaajal Modi
Thermofilia: Witnessing the microbial through hot yoga fermentation
Marika Hedemyr
Three embodied techniques for creating and reflecting on mixed reality performance
Raisa Kilpeläinen & Milla Martikainen
On more sustainable performance design, education and the future skills in a world of polycrisis
Monika Klimaitė-Daunienė
Heterarchical creation – A way to approach a process of performance making as an ecosystem
Joonas Lahtinen
Mundane matters – “Use what you have” and “politics of the mundane” as tools for facilitating resource-conscious performance art pedagogy
Maedy de Miranda
The choreographic force of matter: Reframing ecodramaturgy
Strand III Ecological Storytelling
Alba Balmaseda Domínguez
Unveiling water: Embodied explorations of urban waterscapes
Kitija Balcare
Building ecological awareness through ecotheatre: Agency of place
Germain Ducros
Dancing an embodied landscape: An ecosomatic movement workshop
Andrea Franco Marín
Plants, stones, and bats: The non-anthropocentric dramaturgy of Chilean director and playwright Manuela Infante
Jeanette Mueller, Paul Divjak, Alexandra Graupner & Anna-Maria Irgang
Nature after nature – Multisensory medley for systems awareness
Elena Peytchinska & Thomas Ballhausen
Performing undisciplined landscapes: A posthuman approach to collective storytelling
Keynote Essays
Raisa Foster
Embracing hope and utopia amidst complex eco-social crises
Dylan Van Den Berg
Listen here: Country as character and ecological whispers in First Nations playwriting and performance
Contributors
Preface
Hanna Järvinen & Liisa Ikonen
Introduction
Tanja Beer, Natalie Lazaroo & Linda Hassall
Closing Notes on CARPA9
How this book is organised