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Week 1- Session

Carbon Neutral Copenhagen

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXkamwNWPgg

Key points from video

- Plan to be 1st city to be carbon neutral by 2025.

- Reduced CO2 input by 40% since 2005 as a result of less use of coal as a energy source.

- Increased efficiency of old buildings by using new technology.

- 360km of cycle lanes taking up 25% of travel.

- By 2030 diesel and petrol to be eliminated in the use of electric vehicles

- By 2025 aim to have 100% renewable energy sources.

- By 2025 to build 360 wind turbines for renewable energy.

HOME’s Carbon neutral Policies

What is HOME doing that other companies aren’t?

Staff

All staff go through Carbon Literacy training, advocating climate change awareness and implementing actions to reduce the environmental impact of their working practices, operations, programming and activities.

HOME are one of only three organisations worldwide to be recognised with Platinum Carbon Literate Organisation status.

Through their Carbon Literacy training they are fostering, connecting and amplifying HOME’s mission with their cultural, local and global community, sharing knowledge, influencing others, and inspiring action in their commitment to collective responsibility, accountability and action.

Sustainability

Quoted from their Environmental and Sustainability Action Plan 2018-2022

HOME is committed to best sustainable policy and practice. The following document outlines our KPIs in line with the 2018-2022 Arts Council England Strategic Business Plan.

Working hard to reduce our environmental impacts, we continually monitor and report on our activities in order to better understand and improve our performance.

Through training and knowledge-sharing we enable our staff to become sustainability champions, supporting and inspiring our communities, audiences, partners and stakeholders through action and engagement.

As ambassadors for change we actively support Manchester’s Zero Carbon strategies, and as cultural leaders we advance the growth of our sector through innovative low-carbon initiatives and endeavours. With sustainability fully embedded into the heart of our organisation, its operations and programming, our efforts today strengthen a creative green future for tomorrow.

Sustainable Procurement

They support local business by using North West producers supplying dairy, fruit and vegetables, meat, sustainably-sourced fish, ales and snacks. The majority of their food is prepared from scratch on site, and they have a great selection of plant-based and meat-free options on the menu.

All in-house catering waste is composted, recycled or converted into Waste-to-Energy biofuel. They are also trying to eliminate single-use plastic by 2020. They want to change habits as well as mindsets, that’s why you’ll find reusable cups for use in our theatres and cinemas.

(but yet they use membership cards that are made out of single use plastic that isn’t recyclable?)

Through collaboration with Green Business Growth they have developed a sustainable procurement survey and regularly review their suppliers, creating a sustainable tendering process for operational activities.

Green Initiatives

They acknowledge that rapid and urgent action is needed across all sectors of society.

Their Environmental and Sustainability group comprises staff members from across the organisation, who are dedicated to bringing a variety of environmental innovations and practices to HOME, driving change, developing initiatives and inspiring both individual action and collective change.

Ideally located to be reached by public transport, cycling, or on foot, just off the Oxford Road corridor, it is now even easier to reach HOME without a car. Improved cycle routes and Dutch-style bike lanes ensure a smooth journey, and we have Sheffield stands available to secure your bike on site.

(one of the problems we identified as they have a HUGE car park which kinda conflicts with what they are saying here!)

Building

The building uses a 100% renewable electricity supplier alongside their Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHP) which helps to reduce their carbon emissions through on-site energy generation and conversion. The building scored a B-rating for efficiency in the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) and continues to hold a C-rating for our Display Energy Certificate (DEC). The DEC is renewed on an annual basis, allowing HOME to target and demonstrate good energy management to all users and members of the public.

They have a Building Management System that assists in the operating of their building, ensuring that it is continually controlled, monitored and adjusted. By remotely monitoring energy meters they can record and consider their consumption. With real-time regulating of heating and ventilation systems, they minimise waste and run efficiently.

Which basically means it’s a smart building that auto-regulates itself so that it uses less energy.

Artist Research

Key Word

Social Sculpture- an expanded concept of art that was invented by the artist and co-founder of the German Green Party Joseph Beuys.

Joseph Beuys

A German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a painter, sculptor, medallist, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7gNR8WH6BM

‘Everybody is an artist’

- Founder of the Green Party

- Connection between art and technology

- Talking to dead animal shows the break down of nature as a result of humans.

- Goes on about how the Swedish flag is the same as for medical, could be a bandaid healing mankind.

After looking at some of his work, I came across something that I thought looked familiar, a piece of his artwork called ‘I like America and America likes me’

In May 1974, the visionary German artist Joseph Beuys flew into New York City’s John F Kennedy International Airport and was immediately taken by ambulance to a room in West Broadway’s René Block Gallery. But he was not ill, or even in pain. Carried by stretcher, which was covered in his signature layer of felt, Beuys shared this solitary space with a coyote – a wild beast, often considered to represent America’s untamed spirit – for three days. It was a performance, entitled I Like America and America likes Me, taut with caution (the animal at first was erratic, and tore apart a blanket in the room), but one that was ultimately a success: the coyote grew tolerant, accepting, simply through Beuys’ desire to heal.

This is familiar to me because the name of the performance is also a song by the British band The 1975 who are also known for being quite controversial in their methods of conveying a message.

This song is a political song about gun violence.The song starts out with the lyrics

I'm scared of dying You're set on fire Am I a liar? Ooh (No gun required) I'm scared of dying No gun required, ooh My skin is fire, so desired

And later on goes on about how people are ignoring are happening what is going on in the world around them which is what Beuys was also trying to enlighten.

Would you please listen? Would you please listen? We can see it's missing When you bleed, say so we know Being young in the city Believe in saying something Would you please listen? Would you please listen? We can see it's missing When you bleed, say so we know

Idea

Could we possibly encourage people to be environmentally conscious by getting them to think of it as creating art?

Friedrich Engels

A German philosopher, communist, social scientist, journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of large textile factories in Salford, England and in Barmen, Prussia.

- Statue of him outside of HOME

- Statue of his beard outside of Adelphi building

Rafael Lozano Hemmer

A Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. He holds a Bachelor of Science in physical chemistry from Concordia University in Montreal.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlvjGrOv2Ms

‘your asking people not to be separated from reality but to be part of it and think of the world in a different way’

- Inspired by computing pioneer Charles Babbage

- Found a way to visualise the movement of the air as words are spoken using various mediums.

Idea

How can we make the invisible visible so people will notice?

Theaster Gates

An American social practice installation artist and a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlq5ilsfoSo

- Bought properties in run down areas and gave people a place to be creative

- This is what the world needs on a grand scale. a boost to community self esteem, individuals, and a boost to the economy.

- Non- profit organisations creating meaningful places which attracts a diverse community

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