Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability
When:
Saturday, Apr 05, 2025 10:30a -
5:30p
Saturday, Apr 05, 2025 10:30a -
5:30p
Where:
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Ames Street, Building E15
Cambridge, MA 02139
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Festivals & Fairs, Innovation, University
Event website:
https://listart.mit.edu/calendar/2025-max-wasserman-forum-visions-sustainability
The 2025 Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability brings together artists, scholars, and curators to discuss climate change within the arts and museum institutions.
There is an ever-growing sense of urgency from across disciplines to respond to the challenges of climate change and the current state of our environmental degradation. The role art plays in this dialogue is not separate from but, rather, in conversation with sustainable futures and climate justice imperatives. Artists have contributed to the climate change dialogue and responded to ecological challenges while questioning human impacts and looking directly at our precarious present to envision a more stable future.
Art not only conceives new ideas but also evokes empathy, provides a space for healing, advocates for community resilience and mobilization, and reframes complex and overwhelming scientific reports. This Forum will focus on rethinking how art and cultural organizations can operate, the disproportionate effects of climate change on those in vulnerable populations, and the transformative role art and artists take. What are the multifaceted impacts of environmental degradation? How can we cope with and understand the precarious present we live in? And how can we creatively reframe and effectively make change in our communities? These overarching drives and questions will be addressed by creative practitioners, expressing their visions of sustainability.
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