REST_ART - Raising Environmental Sustainability Through Art

PROJECT Raising Environmental Sustainability Through Art (REST_ART)Environmental awareness is to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. Aesthetic practices that take up political disruption are not simply raising awareness or communicating messages. This is not politics as propaganda. Instead, aesthetic practices operate through a ‘radical uncanniness’ that realigns, disrupts, and reinvents political engagement as material and sensible events (Rancière, 2004 [2000]). An artwork that is visually memorable, seductive, surprising, and shocking can etch itself in people’s minds in a way the written word can struggle to do.The project aims to present, raise awareness, sensibilize and prevent harmful attitudes against the environment through artwork. Through the scheduled mobilities the project envisions acknowledging Art as a strong influence on issues related to environmental preservation. Artworks are essential tools for ecological activism that alert the population to urgent matters, facilitate understanding messages about sustainability, and help mobilize people to fight for this cause. In addition, the Consortium will implement a comparative approach and photography research to shed light on the plastic waste management of the respective cities of the consortium, as a tool to exercise pressure on the Municipalities through its dissemination and communication.Target Groups•Youth workers, •Youngsters, Young people with fewer opportunities•Youth organizations•General publicMore specifically the project’s objectives concern the:•Introduction of young people and youth workers to environmental awareness •Creation of artworks from single-use of plastics, as a medium to tackle the use of single-use plastics•Adoption of good practices to reduce and manage plastic waste•Comparative research of the engaged countries to address major environmental issues and exercise pressure in the respective Municipalities