Teaching Sustainable Development in a Sensory and Artful Way — Concepts, Methods, and Examples

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

Despite significant short-term pressures such as the recent Coronavirus pandemic with its economic and social disruptions, longer-term environmental un-sustainability and its projected intergenerational consequences remain a major threat for the future of mankind. More and new efforts are required in all social spheres with regard to the universal Sustainable Development Goals. In this context, the present article makes the argument for teaching sustainable development in higher education with a more sensory and artful approach, in order to raise students’ awareness of the multisensory reality of human existence and develop skills to engage creatively for sustain-ability transformations. Rooted in the perspective of sensory and arts-based sustainability science, three experimental bachelor courses—designed and conducted by the author of this article in collab-oration with artists—with twenty to twenty-five students in each course from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in environmental studies, cultural studies, and social sciences are presented and dis-cussed. It is argued that the specific course design and the scientific-artistic co-teaching provide an innovative way to teach sustainability topics in a more sensory way. The article ends with an outlook on potentials and challenges of this approach.

Original languageEnglish
Article number13619
JournalSustainability
Volume13
Issue number24
Number of pages15
ISSN2071-1050
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.12.2021

Bibliographical note

This publication was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of Leuphana University Lüneburg.

This article belongs to the Special Issue Education for Sustainable Development and Teaching: Challenges, Practice and Research

Documents

DOI

Recently viewed

Activities

  1. Group Decision and Negotiation (Fachzeitschrift)
  2. Effects of a seminar on mathematical modelling with MathCityMap
  3. Scroll
  4. Learners managing the ambiguity of sustainable development – An empirical exploration of the learning method "Systemic Visualisation"
  5. Breaks and age related strain in continuous physical work
  6. The Body as An Indexical Reader
  7. Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature plasma Physics - WELTPP 2019
  8. Teach About US – Innovative Ways of Teaching English: An Update on Ongoing Projects
  9. Navigating in the Digital Jungle: Articulating Combinatory Affordances of Digital Infrastructures for Collaboration
  10. The Framework for Inclusive Science Education
  11. (Binding) European Values in the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy
  12. Auto-assistive bodily practices. A history of early haptic technologies and practices
  13. Coauthoring an interorganizational collaboration: Exploring multi-voicedness and introducing spatiotemporal orientations
  14. Reforming from Within : Lessons of Institutional Transformation in a Climate of Systemic Change
  15. Explaining the performance of participatory and collaborative governance in addressing long-term environmental policy issues
  16. De-Mystifying the Digital
  17. Language Policy and Language Learning: New Paradigms and New Challenges - LPLL 2009
  18. Different cultures, different interactional norms: Addressing variation across the Englishes (Carl von Ossietzsky Universität)
  19. The efficacy of an internet- and mobile-based stress management intervention in employees in different guidance formats: the results of three randomised controlled trials
  20. On Race & Ecocide: Thinking of New Forms of Environmentality and Eco-Colonialism

Publications

  1. Drafts in Action
  2. Are Acute Effects of Foam-Rolling Attributed to Dynamic Warm Up Effects? A Comparative Study
  3. The Framework for Inclusive Science Education
  4. Legitimation problems of participatory processes in technology assessment and technology policy
  5. Digital Business Transformation and the Changing Role of the IT Function
  6. User Authentication via Multifaceted Mouse Movements and Outlier Exposure
  7. Microstructure-based modeling of residual stresses in WC-12Co-sprayed coatings
  8. Predicate‐based model of problem‐solving for robotic actions planning
  9. Digital teaching as an instrument for cross-location teaching networks in medical informatics
  10. Kommentar zu Ute Tellmann
  11. The role of place in shaping responsibility logics
  12. On the Equivalence of Transmission Problems in Nonoverlapping Domain Decomposition Methods for Quasilinear PDEs
  13. From Open Access to Open Science
  14. Nonlinear anisotropic boundary value problems – regularity results and multiscale discretizations
  15. Conjunctive cohesion in English language EU documents - A corpus-based analysis and its implications
  16. How generative drawing affects the learning process
  17. Metrics for Experimentation Programs: Categories, Benefits and Challenges
  18. Determining Lot Sizes in Production Areas
  19. A Trajectory Generation Algorithm for Optimal Consumption in Electromagnetic Actuators
  20. Comparing Web-Based and Blended Training for Coping With Challenges of Flexible Work Designs
  21. Stressing the Relevance of Differentiating between Systematic and Random Measurement Errors in Ultrasound Muscle Thickness Diagnostics
  22. Development of a Parameterized Model for Additively Manufactured Dies to Control the Strains in Extrudates
  23. Bayesian Parameter Estimation in Green Business Process Management
  24. Design of Reliable Remobilisation Finger Implants with Geometry Elements of a Triple Periodic Minimal Surface Structure via Additive Manufacturing of Silicon Nitride