THE
ECOVERSITY FORUMS
What
is the ecoversity?
1992
Spring
season: East
Timor - towards peace, prosperity and self-determination,
September 23 to December 17, and the East
Timorese Youth Ambassador Project. With an exhibition
of work by Melbourne artist, Jeff
Stewart, Night visions: images from a tourist in East
Timor.
Other
events in 1992 included workshops with Dave
Hicks, Guy Claxton, and Christine Chinkin.
1993
Autumn
initiative: Let
Them Speak
tour of North America by East Timorese youth
ambassadors, accompanied by ITF co-ordinator, Merrill
Findlay. This tour was facilitated by ITF as part
of the Timorese Youth Ambassador project, 1992-93.
Spring
season: National
sustainability forums - August 3 to September 21.
Essays based on presentations from this season were published
as Cappuccino
Papers.
1994
Autumn
season: Challenges
to sustainability, with the launch of Violence
to non-violence: prints from The Peace Project
by William Kelly.
Winter
season:Models
for sustainability
Spring
season: Sustainable
cities.
Other
events in 1994 included Women
and Reconciliation.
1995
Autumn
season: Health
and wellbeing - self, community, planet
Winter
season: Transcending
boundaries - globalism, regionalism, localism, personalism
Spring
season: The future
of work
1996
Autumn:What's
good urban design? The ecoversity goes to the
ballroom at the George Hotel, Fitzroy Street, St Kilda,
with Victoria's response to the Prime Minister's Urban
Design Taskforce Report.
2001
The
ecoversity goes to Hungary
and Romania.
2002
Museum
Victoria acquires the ecoversity
fittings, forum tapes and associated material. ITF's archives
1989-2000 deposited with the State Library of Victoria.
See
also Re-imagining
your neighbourhood and Redreaming
the plain.
2005
ITF
celebrates its fifteenth anniversary with a special
double issue of Futures
journal on the future of Australia, featuring
papers by ecoversity speakers and people associated
with Imagine The Future Inc. More
>> . And more
>>
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