Research associate at Leuphana University Lueneburg's Institute for Theory and Research on Culture and the Arts (IKKK) in Germany, Sacha Kagan founded and coordinates Cultura21 International – Cultural Fieldworks for Sustainability: a network gathering artists, scientists and other cultural practitioners engaged for cultures of sustainability. He co-edited the publications Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures (VAS, 2008) and Sustainability in Karamoja? Rethinking the terms of global sustainability in a crisis region of Africa (Rüdiger Köppe, 2009), coordinated international projects and directed documentary films (e.g. Land of Thorns, 2008).