Five-day course will look at the future of our cities
The upcoming edition of the five-day international SciCulture intensive course on the theme ‘The future of our cities, today’ will take place in Malta between November 8 and 12. The course will explore sustainability challenges faced in urban development, using future prospecting, embodied learning, and an array of tools to creatively challenge the theme of the future well-being of cities in 2050. The course forms part of SciCulture, a project funded under the Erasmusplus programme, with support from the European Commission, that aims to push the barriers and promote collaboration between different disciplines and backgrounds to address the complex challenges of society. Participants will search for answers to questions such as ‘How can scientific knowledge and creative practices interweave to promote the well-being of cities?’; ‘How might arts and play be used to design our city spaces?’; ‘How can we imagine a better future for each other?’; and ‘What can we start doing now to achieve that future?’. Course participants will taste arts and performance skills, scientific knowledge and the entrepreneurial mindset, and challenged to develop a different way of thinking and learning...