Who knows if there are still followers of Zarathustra in India and Pakistan? In this article, the author brings you to the megacity of Karachi, south of Pakistan. This city is a gateway to much questioning regarding the contemporary environmental crisis. By David Knaute, Karachi (Pakistan).

Alongside COP15, I am being in Copenhagen this week, taking part in a number of parallel events in the city, dealing with the role of the arts and culture for sustainability. I will give some feedback from these events on a daily basis. By Sacha Kagan, from Copenhagen.

Art and culture are said to be the mirrors of the world as a whole. What kind of mirrors are we looking to be? Are we all becoming Hopenhageners? A few words from Copenhagen in a state of growing buzz. By Oleg Koefoed (Cultura21 Nordic), Copenhagen.

A short insight into life among the Ktunaxa tribe of British Columbia. By Star Hungry Wolf Cardinal, British Columbia (Canada).

Ahmed worked for the German television in Somalia. He was a ”Stringer”, a local assistant: without them, foreign journalists in war-areas such as Somalia, Iraq or Afghanistan would be unable to work. Their existence remains in the shadow of the great reporters. Von Ahmed Jimale, Sweden.

Junge Beziehungen wie die zwischen Kunst und Ökologie entwickeln sich dynamisch, sprunghaft und vielfach nicht ohne eine gewisse Dramatik. Während, zumindest in der breiteren öffentlichen Wahrnehmung, ein Dialog hier überhaupt erst vor zwei, drei Jahrzehnten begann, hat er sich seither in wachsendem Tempo verdichtet und erweitert, spezialisiert und globalisiert, differenziert und technisiert, verwissenschaftlicht und kommerzialisiert. Um die noch bis Mitte der neunziger Jahre nur zu viele einschlägige Diskussionen beherrschende "Ökokunst"- Praktiken, die die ökologische Problematik explizit, unmissverständlich und in zum Teil plakativ ethischer Aufladung zum Thema machten -, ist es dabei inzwischen eher still geworden.

Der umgedrehte Spazierstock: Strategien für eine ästhetische Einrichtung der zukünftigen Erde (PDF)

How an artist uses the world wide web to counteract the destruction of the environment. Von Aviva Rahmani, New York (USA).

Art is part of the social order, when it closes itself self-referentially, gives in to political forces or escapes reality. What does art look like, when it contributes to transforming society? Von Sacha Kagan, Lüneburg (D).

Art breaks order, instilling a disorder that leads to a new order.Creativity introduces different perspectives than the ones commonly established in society.Thereby, art re-discovers reality, whereby the moment of re-invention is a mysterious moment, according to Ilaria Riccioni: A moment when the mundane enters in connection with the universal. Von Ilaria Riccioni, Bozen (I).

"Logic brings you from A to B, Imagination brings you anywhere" (Albert Einstein). Hans Dieleman takes on the quote and describes the borders of science. Science doesn't manage to describe things as a whole and explanations collide with the boundaries of the disciplines. Science and politics need art, to grow beyond their horizons. Von Hans Dieleman, Mexico City (MX).