UC researchers present recommendations for green practices in the performing arts

^{Translation: Diana Taborda}

A research team from the University of Coimbra (UC) has just published a report with a set of conclusions and recommendations for ecological and sustainable practices in the performing arts in Portugal. The document makes a series of recommendations for public policy interventions in this area, ranging from "combating misconceptions that associate environmental challenges with punitive or moralising logics" to ensuring "adequate human and financial resources, as well as monitoring and assessment mechanisms".

"Part For the Whole. Report of the Inquiry into Ecological and Sustainable Practices in the Performing Arts in Portugal" is the result of an institutional partnership between the UC Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) and the Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes). With scientific coordination by Vânia Rodrigues and Fernando Matos Oliveira, researchers at CEIS20 , the report presents and analyses the results of a cross-sectional survey of over one hundred national arts and culture stakeholders and professionals. It includes a comprehensive and contextualising critical component and presents policy recommendations for mainstreaming environmental sustainability into cultural policies.

"This groundbreaking exploratory study addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time - the global environmental crisis. However, this work does not shy away from shedding light on uncertainties, contradictions, dilemmas, and significant hurdles for both cultural actors and policy makers," argue Vânia Rodrigues and Fernando Matos Oliveira.

The report now published is part of the Modes of Production-Performing Arts in Transition platform and the GREENARTS project, developed at the UC Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, with funding from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

More information here.