Link to YouTube video: https://youtu.be/VuVUjEkk5G4
Open online lecture with Jan van Boeckel, artist, educator and researcher, and CEMUS affiliate, in collaboration with the CEMUS course Perspectives on Climate Change – Ecopsychology, Art and Narratives, 7.5 credits. Recorded online March 18, 2025.
About the lecture
How do we keep our mental balance, our sanity, our connection to beauty, and how can we together build a more convivial culture, when the immense challenges that come our way are so overwhelming and can feel so disheartening?
About Jan van Boeckel
Jan van Boeckel is a Dutch artist-educator and researcher. He was professor art & sustainability from 2020 until the end of 2024 at the Research Centre Art & Society of Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen. Currently, in 2025, he is linked as Senior Research Associate to the Research Centre. Previously (2018-2019) Jan was senior lecturer in visual art education at the Academy of Design and Crafts of Gothenburg University. That year Jan was also guest educator and researcher at CEMUS, the Centre for Environment and Development Studies in Uppsala, Sweden. From 2015 until 2018, he was professor in art education at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. Jan van Boeckel has also been program director in design theory at the Iceland University of the Arts in Reykjavik (2014-2015). In 2019, he started teaching painting courses at MK24 in Amsterdam. Jan has regularly taught and facilitated courses at Schumacher College in Dartington, the UK; at University College of Southeast Norway; and in previous years also at CEMUS in Sweden.
Read more: https://janvanboeckel.com/