The Digital Paradox: Navigating Innovation and Sustainability | ZMINA:Resilience webinar #6
🌿 ZMINA:Resilience Capacity Building Training | Green Culture series
We are excited to launch the next chapter of our Capacity Building programme – the Green Culture series. In an era of climate change, ecology in culture is no longer just a choice, but a necessity. This series is designed to help us redefine our artistic and management practices toward sustainability, fairness, and responsibility to the planet.
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As digital technologies and artificial intelligence increasingly shape how we collaborate and create culture, it is essential to question not only their benefits but also their hidden costs. This capacity-building event aims to support cultural professionals in navigating the intersection of digital transformation, ecological responsibility, and global equity.
While digitalisation is often seen as a way to enable global collaboration, the environmental burden — from the extraction of rare metals to growing data centres in energy-vulnerable regions — is unevenly distributed. The rapid expansion of AI further intensifies these dynamics, raising critical geopolitical questions around dependency and digital sovereignty. In this context, can going digital be considered inherently "green"?
This training session invites participants to reflect on their own practices within this global system. We will begin with a theoretical introduction to key challenges, followed by a participatory exchange where participants share their own digital practices and explore solutions for their organisations. The goal is to equip cultural professionals with a more conscious, critical, and systemic approach to innovation.
🗣️ Trainer: Gwendolenn Sharp
Gwendolenn Sharp is the founder of The Green Room (2016), a non-profit organisation developing strategies for environmental and social change in the music sector. Author, lecturer, regular jury member. She has worked with cultural institutions, festivals and environmental NGOs in Poland, France and Tunisia and has diverse experience in project design, international cooperation and developing tailor-made tools. Gwendolenn is a Keychange alumni (2022) and a Villa Albertine Resident (2023).
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gwendolenn-sharp-53327615
📌 Key takeaways:
- Systemic Understanding: The environmental and social impacts of digital technologies and AI.
- Climate Justice: Insights into e-waste, resource extraction, and global inequalities.
- Digital Sobriety: Practical approaches to implement more ethical tech practices.
- Navigating Tensions: Tools to balance innovation with sustainability and equity in international projects.
The training session will be held in English.
📅 Wednesday, 27 May | 13:00 – 15:00 CEST
Learn more and register to take part in the event:
https://platform.izolyatsia.org/en/events/capacity-building-webinar6/
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ZMINA:Resilience is a cooperation between IZOLYATSIA (UA), Malý Berlín (SK) with support of Trans Europe Halles (SE). Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.