Keynote address by Sacha Kagan

Keynote address by Sacha Kagan “Art in Response to Unsustainability” between Imaginaries of Sustainability and Urban Spaces of Possibilities: 27th of October, 5:30pm, IBA City Campus


Dr. Sacha Kagan
Sacha Kagan has been researching at the intersection of the arts, culture(s) and sustainability for over one and a half decade. His work combines social sciences and humanities with arts-based research to reach for transdisciplinary hermeneutics. He has been a research associate at the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (ISCO), Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany) from 2005 to 2018; principal investigator at the research project The City as Space of Possibility from 2015 to 2018; Coordinator of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts at the European Sociological Association from 2015 to 2017; and founding coordinator of Cultura21 International – Cultural Fieldworks for Sustainability (an informal international network grown from the German NGO Cultura21) from 2007 to 2016. Kagan is the author of six dozen publications, including the book Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity (transcript Verlag, 2011), and of three documentary films. Dr. Kagan obtained a PhD at Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany) in 2011, a MA in cultural economics and cultural entrepreneurship at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) in 2004, graduated in political sociology at Sciences Po Bordeaux (France) in 2003, and in history at University Bordeaux 3 in 2000.