The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit
🌲🌲 We are back after a Molière-esque summer to bring you some exciting news about recent work and collaborations — and to wish you a Happy Sept!
Ein Ding der Möglichkeit — Residency Programme (in rural Germany)
Applications open to artists of all disciplines
Image: Ein Ding der Möglichkeit, Wendland region of Germany
This year, our consultancy team worked with the splendid art residency, hotel and event space Ein Ding der Möglichkeit (EDdM) in Germany to integrate sustainable actions into the operation of their new residency programme.
Located on a former farm house, Ein Ding der Möglichkeit aims to show the way for the implementation of environmentally positive projects and sustainable living concepts, and to provide impulses for forward-looking regional development and possible social change.
We helped the team formulate the key ideas for the residency programme, design the the application process and put in place a comprehensive approach to sustainable working practices.
Applications are open here! Please note that the website is currently only available in German, but the residency description and application form are both in English. If you have any questions, you can email Eva at art@moeglichkeit.org on our behalf.
Write an environmental sustainability strategy and action plan
Our team can help your organisation take its first green steps
Image: VILLA VILLA Consultancy, read more here
As environmental sustainability consultants, we help cultural organisations to reduce their environmental impact and develop medium and long-term objectives towards carbon neutrality.
We support institutions in developing a comprehensive and holistic ecological vision, starting by assessing your current efforts and actions, and helping you identify and implement the next steps towards sustainable operations.
Our team has developed a number of tools to enable cultural institutions, museums and not-for-profit arts organisations to meet the challenges and opportunities of sustainable working practices.
if you or your organisation is struggling to get your head around sustainable policies and standards in your sector, drop us a line at info@villavilla.co 💡📁
What you might also enjoy reading / listening to
A short list of recommendations:
✨ Produced by the Centre for Sustainable Curating (Canada), Using the Resources at Hand: Sustainable Exhibition Design is aimed at helping students think about eco-friendly options in designing exhibitions, but it can be used by anyone with an interest in making the museum sector more sustainable.
As the Synthetic Collective writes, “low carbon exhibitions require extra planning, innovation, and shifting of some of the aesthetic standards of traditional exhibitions. Such approaches should be seen as in line with a global turn in curating towards socially-engaged projects and slow curating. Take the pressure off yourself and take some pressure off the climate.”
✨ Union des Scénographes (France) launched a Declaration of eco-scenography for a deontology of eco-design practices calling for the mobilisation of all art professionals to take part in a common eco-design approach, in order to promote and regulate the practices of reuse of sets and costumes in the performing arts sector.
✨ Disabled and autistic artist and writer Jamila Prowse (UK) has recently launched a new Youtube channel, in which she shares the realities of daily life: being bedbound, making, studio days and rare social occasions. We particularly enjoy listening to her series of book reviews.
✨ Our friend Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez (Green Art Lab Alliance) has just published her first book LET’S BECOME FUNGAL! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts, in which she shares innovative practices from Latin America and the Caribbean rooted in multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliances, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up methods and mutual dependency.
✨ The Design Museum (London) and URGE collective have published a report on Strategies for Reducing the Carbon Impact of Temporary and Touring Exhibitions in the Museums and Galleries sector. Our founder and director, Alice Bonnot, took part in the Environmental Impact Working Group with Graciela Melitsko Thornton of Julie’s Bicycle.