Three Key Questions on Culture, Cultural Heritage and Climate Change

28 Marco Scotini Marco Scotini is the artistic director of FM – Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea and director of the Visual Art and Curatorial Studies Department at NABA, Milan. He is the programme coordinator for Parco Arte Vivente (PAV) in Turin, and he has worked with many international institutions (Biennale di Venezia, Biennale di Praga, Van Abbemuseum, Museo Reina Sofía, Bangkok Art Biennale, Castello di Rivoli, MIT) as a curator. He has been working on contemporary ecology, environmental and climate ecology, and social and cultural ecology. As the curator of many exhibitions in the ecological field for the Parco Arte Vivente, he starts artistic practices for a bottom-up ecological transition. In 2018, he was curator for the Yinchuan Biennale, aimed at answering the question “What is ecology today?” — Alison Tickell Alison Tickell is the founder of Julie’s Bicycle, a non-profit organisation focusing on the ecosystem of culture as a central, vital driver in the fight against climate change. Alison Tickell works with the full ecosystem, from funding, procurement, infrastructure, and logistics to government ministries and funders, as well as the cultural practice itself: the artists and the stories they tell. Over the past thirteen years, she has found a truly unique approach to tackling climate change by leveraging this major industry for international policy shift, creating tens of millions in energy savings and utilising the unique outreach of cultural producers to change mindsets and behaviours, with a strategy fully prepared for the urgency of the moment.

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