#SVOBODAYS
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Ecoconception
Issues of ecodesign and sustainability in performing arts emerged repeatedly in the discussions and exchanges throughout the project.
Awareness is emerging, though still uneven across Europe.
The list of resources below is not exhaustive, please feel free to share
your references and best practice ideas through the contact form.
Sources providing methodologies, case studies and practical tools,
to support performing arts in the ecological transition:
Key Resources
(english)
Theatre Green Book
Towards sustainable productions, operations and buildings + toolkit
EcoStage
Sustainable stages
Green Theatre alliance - Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift
Culture Action Europe
https://cultureactioneurope.org
Julie's Bicycle
Creative Green tools
Creative Carbon Scotland
A guide to greener arts
https://www.creativecarbonscotland.com
Key Resources
(french)
The Shift Project
"Décarbonons la Culture"
REDITEC
Charte pour le développement durable en spectacle vivant
https://reditec.org/activites-projets/developpement-durable/
Collectif des Festivals
Accompagner les acteurs de la culture dans la transition écologique
https://www.lecollectifdesfestivals.org
ARVIVA
« Pas de spectacle vivant sur une planète morte »
Les Augures
« La culture fait sa transition » - AUGURES LAB SCÉNOGRRRRAPHIE
ADEME
Culture et développement durable
Readings
ARONS W. and Theresa J.M. Readings in Performance and Ecology USA: Palgrave Macmillan (2015)
BLOUËT Christelle, "Culture et développement durable", Ed. IRMA, 2020
GARRETT, I. 2015, “Theatrical Production’s Carbon Footprint”, in Arons W. and Theresa J.M.,
Readings in Performance and Ecology, USA: Palgrave Macmillan (2015)
HANN, R. Beyond scenography, Routledge, Taylor and Francis (2018)
HOPKINS, The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience, Blackwells (2008)
KASTELL & MYERS “Ecoscenography in action”, Scene, Volume 7, Numbers 1-2, 1 (Dec. 2019).
VALENSI Samuel, "Vers des productions durables du spectacle vivant", Ed. Les Augures (2023)
VERGES Emmanuel, Pour une écologie culturelle, Ed. Actes Sud (2021)
Pioneers
I. Josef Svoboda
Josef Svoboda (1920-2002) is a Czech stage designer who worked between 1941 and 2000 on stages all over the world, designing almost seven hundred works for theatre and opera.
Internationally recognized as a master of stage lighting, he is also known for having brought the most advanced technologies of his time to the stage.
Through its scope, its poetic force and the technological innovations it brings into play, Svoboda's work can be read as a synthesis of the changes in stage design that occurred during the second half of the 20th century, of which we are the heirs today.
Looking into his trade secrets is a way to question and put into perspective our contemporary practices, and to familiarize young theatre practitioners with the tools of tomorrow.
Technologies & How-to
This section is currently being developed
and will be available soon