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July 7th, 2007 | 
Author: Documenta 12, I was visiting Germany between the 25th of June and the 3rd of July. I took part in the 3rd Oasis of the 1st Expedition with NUROPE, the Nomadic University of Art, Philosophy and Enterprise in Europe. http://www.nurope.eu We visited and discussed the 12th Documenta an exhibition of contemporary art. For a little bit of information about the Documenta 12 visit http://www.documenta12.de.
For me personally it was a crash (course) into the world of contemporary art, having a background in natural science makes the art world for me something new and interesting. Combining this with philosophy as well as theories of business and management makes it all the more exciting, however at times quite hard to grasp.
The reasons for why I’m taking part in Nurope and the different expeditions are quite selfish. I’m working on educating myself in one of the 4 aspects of a sustainable society. These being; Governance, Economy, Ecology, Social/Cultural. As I’ve studied 3 of the four aspects to some extent at university as well as during my work life (Governance, Economy and Ecology) I thought it was about time for me to get to know the 4th one. I’ll be posting pictures from Germany on my Flickr account in the coming days http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterfagerstrom/ a few can be found there already. If you are a Nomad of Nurope reading this, please contact me and I’ll add you to the group Nurope on Flickr.
Posted in Sitting in Raisio a neighbouring municipality to Turku on a terrace listening to elektRoland from netgrooves.de. Nice music, drinking a worldchampion Finnish lager, KOFF, and Napoleon brandy. What a terrible life…
Starting on the 6th of june and going on till the 10th, Olohuone.org will arrange a series of art events in Turku (check out) http://www.olohuone.org.
Turku Design Week is a design event in Turku where local design companies as well as young designers present their work during 5 days. 11-16th of June.
I’m at the moment sitting in an auditorium in the Finnish Parliament taking part in a seminar about culture for sustainable development and development cooperation in the area of culture. It is a two day seminar arranged in Helsinki (Helsingfors in Swedish) the first day at the Hanaholmen conference centre, the second at the Finnish Parliament. Alot of the participants are form government, especially the Finnish Ministry for Foreign affairs and the Ministry for Education.
How can we take the public responsibility of culture for sustainable development?
Publication: Fair Culture? Ethical dimension of cultural policy and cultural rights