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  • 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 […]
  • New from The Centre for Sustainable Curating (CSC) – October 23
    The October newsletter from The Centre for Sustainable Curating highlights the CSC’s involvement with this year’s UAAC-AAUC Conference, including ways the CSC has led the drive […]
  • CSC in the News!
  • Launch event September 28, 2023
    Launch of CSC MATERIALS research stream with guests: Kirsty Robertson and Friederike Landau-Donnelly introduce the CSC’s MATERIAL research stream and launch the zine Curating Waste (see […]
  • Materials – workshop and series of short talks
    On September 28, join the Centre for Sustainable Curating online and in person for an open house, a workshop, and a series of short talks.  Register […]
  • Solar-powered Digital Archiving
    Imogen Clendinning Prior to 2020, the world of net art existed, for the most part, outside of the bounds of institutional spaces and white cube galleries. […]
  • Burn Up/Burn Out: Curating for the Future
    Burn Up/Burn Out: Curating for the FutureSunday June 5, online, 2-4pm* Eventbrite zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/burn-up-burn-out-curating-for-the-future-tickets-335500831017 What does it mean to be an arts worker in a […]
  • Lost Utopias/Islands of Abandonment
    Centre for Sustainable Curating and Museum London present: Jade Doskow and Cal FlynThursday, April 7, 2022 at 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ESTCost: Free Online/Zoom: Registration […]
  • Using the Resources at Hand: Sustainable Exhibition Design Guide Now Available!
    Every step of exhibition design, from the initial organization to the deinstallation, can benefit from a lower carbon footprint.Using the Resources at Hand is a guide […]
  • Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through
    September 8–November 20, 2021 at The University of Toronto Art CentreOrganized by the Synthetic Collective Link to Exhibition and Related Programming Works by: Christina Battle, IAIN […]
  • CSC Launch Recording Now Archived
    In keeping with the CSC’s efforts to keep a low energy footprint, the video from the launch of the CSC on May 27th was available online […]
  • CSC Launch: May 27th, 1-5pm EST
    REGISTER HERE:  https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1D4Gd2rHT_uW8uyaZoI1SQ At the launch event, we will introduce the Centre, including the work of the two inaugural postdocs. A panel will consider Radical Pedagogy […]