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Latest News:

  • Picturing Climate Network
    The CSC is now part of the Picturing Climate Network. The Picturing Climate Network is an independent, international collective that brings together media artists, climate change […]
  • News from the CSC – April 2026
    The April 2026 newsletter from the Centre for Sustainable Curating is now out! Read more about an upcoming workshop and research by the CSC.
  • News from the CSC – March 2026
    The March 2026 newsletter from the Centre for Sustainable Curating is now out! Read more about an upcoming workshop and research by the CSC.
  • News from the CSC – December
    The December 2025 newsletter from the Centre for Sustainable Curating is now out! Read our last mailing of the year.
  • News from the CSC – September
    The September 2025 newsletter from the Centre for Sustainable Curating is now out!
  • Dr. Kirsty Robertson at the IFSCI
    Join Dr. Kirsty Robertson in a panel discussion Friday, September 26th at the International Forum on the Sustainability of Cultural Institutions. Streaming on Instagram @institutionunderconstruction and […]
  • News from the CSC – July
    The July newsletter from the Centre for Sustainable Curating is now out!
  • CSC at the Cultivating Sustainable Collections
    The CSC is partnering with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre to present Culitvating Sustainable Collections September 12 – 13, 2025. This two day conference focuses managing […]
  • News from the CSC – May
    The May newsletter from the Centre for Sustainable Curating is now out! This May we highlight some new resources. Check it out here!
  • The Air of the Now and Gone RISO Catalogues
    We’re RISO printing the exhibition catalogues for The Air of the Now and Gone in anticipation of assembling and binding next week at Carlton University Art Gallery. […]
  • Dr. Kirsty Robertson on the Ecologies in Practice Podcast
    In this episode of the Ecologies in Practice Podcast Ashar Mobeen interviews Dr. Kirsty Robertson, Canada Research Chair in Museums, Art and Sustainability at Western University. They […]
  • News from the CSC – March 2025
    The March newsletter from the Centre for Sustainable Curating is now out! Active participants of the CSC have been in the news quite a lot since our last newsletter […]
  • Congratulations to CSC Active Participants
    Congratulations to CSC active participants who received funding from the Western Sustainable Impact Fund for their exciting projects. The Western Sustainable Impact Fund (WSIF) encourages projects […]
  • Littoral Entanglements: The Fractured Lives of Plastic Artworks
    CSC members Katie Lawson & Kirsty Robertson published an essay in Esse’s Winter 2025 issue Plastics. Editor Sylvette Babin writes about their essay Littoral Entanglements: The […]
  • Ecologies in Practice Podcast
    Image 1: Ecologies in Practice Water theme logo. Image 2: image from Samuels et al. Publication on flood mitigation (link in show notes), panels from hand-drawn […]
  • Introducing Archivetemporal 
    Introducing Archivetemporal:  The strands (or stomata to use a potato metaphor) of the project are held together by the solar-powered website and archive. Held on a […]
  • Spending more time with The Fiction of Permanence: Materials Guides – Concrete
    To start the new year, we’re spending more time with our new research project Objects as Temporal Entities. We begin with The Fiction of Permanence: Materials Guides. Three: […]
  • Mobilizing Museum Minerals – Virtual Launch Event
    The CSC is looking forward to the virtual launch event for Mobilizing Museum Minerals, a special, double issue of Museum & Society Journal co-edited by CSC […]
  • Spending more time with The Fiction of Permanence: Materials Guides – Felt
    To start the new year, we’re spending more time with our new research project Objects as Temporal Entities. We begin with The Fiction of Permanence: Materials Guides. Two: […]
  • Looking closer at Potatotemporal
    As an artwork, Potatotemporal includes 18 potatoes made from 9 materials, plus 2 real potatoes. When on site at Atelier LUMA for the Sustainable Institution residency, […]
  • Spending more time with The Fiction of Permanence: Materials Guides – Potato
    To start the new year, we’re spending more time with our new research project Objects as Temporal Entities. We begin with The Fiction of Permanence: Materials […]
  • Dr. Kirsty Robertson and the CSC are highlighted in Western News
    A recent Western News article highlights work being done within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities around climate change. The article – Toward a sustainable future […]
  • CSC member Katie Lawson writes about sustainability in the arts
    CSC member Katie Lawson contributed an article to CBC Arts on ways artists incorporate sustainability into their practices. The article: With gardens and garbage, artists are […]
  • New from the CSC – December 2024
    The December newsletter from the Centre for Sustainable Curating highlights the major new project Objects as Temporal Entities. Developed by the Centre for Sustainable Curating in collaboration with the Synthetic Collective at LUMA […]