Project “Creative mountains” was presented on World biodiversity forum in Davos

Project “Creative mountains” was presented as one of the best projects from Eastern Europe at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos in June 2024 for its innovative approaches to promotion of nature and cultural heritage in the mountain areas of Armenia, Georgia and Slovakia. About 3 million people around the world got the chance to learn about unique nature and folk culture in the mountains thanks to videos, photos and stories shared by bloggers and photographers in social media.

Under the theme From Science to Action, the third World Biodiversity Forum brought together researchers across all disciplines of biodiversity science with practitioners and societal actors to explore how to move from science to actions and solutions to conserve biodiversity and set us on a path towards transformation for sustainability.

The project was presented during the section ‘ARTSCI_24.1a Reflections, Intersections & Connections – Dialogues and collaborations between art, science and society’. Transformative action across multiple dimensions of human society is needed to achieve sustainable futures on Earth. This will require shifts in mindsets and opening channels to include different perspectives and ways of knowing and being. Progress towards sustainable human-nature futures requires careful attention to be paid to relationships and interactions between humans and nature. These relationships can be captured/reflected, and positive actions inspired, through artistic expressions including art, dance, theatre, music and poetry. With this session,  projects and collaborations between arts, science and society that evoke change across a variety of sectors/dimensions of society by appealing to human connections with nature were showcased . We got knowledges about experiences and relationships created to encourage discussion around how these positive and influential artistic expressions might feed into a more structured and unified mechanism to achieve human-nature sustainability.

Great thanks to all partners and bloggers for cooperation!
Certainly we will continue with art-expeditions and creative projects, looks like not only in Europe!
Project was supported by European Commission (Creative Europe programme) and implemented in 2023-2024 in Slovakia, Armenia and Georgia.

Posted by: Svetlana Belova, June 24 2024