Sustainable Development - Bridging Art and Science
In the autumn semester 2020, ETH4D together with NADEL, offered the course "Sustainable Development - Bridging Art and Science" for the second time. The idea of the course is to use movies as a means to communicate research to a wider audience. Art can be a central tool for this.Therefore, students are exposed to critical issues of global sustainable development through different movies. As a final project, student-teams create their own films on a chosen topic related to sustainable development.
In the autumn semester, 26 participants attended the course "Sustainable Development - Bridging Art and Science", in which students deepen their knowledge about global development and sustainability issues through watching and critically reflecting on five different movies. The movies shown included Midnight Traveler, 2040, Anote's Ark, Queen of Katwe and Disturbing the Peace. Each of these movies is linked to one dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, namely peace, planet, prosperity, people and partnership. Students discuss the content of the movies with researchers and relevant stakeholders from the broader society. Through this, students dealt with issues concerning communicating research and realities of low-income settings to the public, bias and polarisation, and the role films play in that regard. As a final project, student-teams create their own movie, linking a topic of their choice to one of the five 2030 Agenda dimensions. The awarded movies from 2020 deal with conflict & peace, child labour and ecological sustainability. Have a look at the awarded movies below. More information here
A Journey Through Conflict to Peace
Project Planet
Short Movie on Child Labour
As you stride through the streets of Banglore, India you might notice lots of children on the streets, many more than before Covid-19. Most of them have been sent to school not only for education but also for a hot meal and health care. During the on going pandemic schools all over the world have shut down which might end in almost 10 million children to never return to school. This made us question the effects education can have on child labour.
By Christina Pinneri, Ladina Schocher & Supraja Sridhara
Award: Best done technically