Creative Responses to Sustainability | Green Guide for the Philippines launched!
culture360.ASEF.org is delighted to launch the Green Guide for the Philippines, the 10th in the series Creative Responses to Sustainability.
Researched by the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), the guide aims to provide a contextual overview of the intersection between sustainability and the arts in the Philippines. As a geographically diverse and environmentally vulnerable country, what sustainability challenges is faced locally, and what creative approaches have emerged in response?
What you can expect to find in the guide?
- An overview of the artistic landscape and environmental realities in the Philippines, informed by interviews and experiences of artists, cultural workers and sustainability advocates
- How arts organisations and collectives are responding to sustainability challenges, ranging from exploitation of biodiversity, intensified natural disasters, marginalisation of vulnerable communities
- A directory of 18 organisations based in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, that integrate sustainability-related themes into their artistic initiatives
- Recommendations and reflections to all stakeholders for a more sustainable and climate resilient Philippines
The directory of 18 arts organisations reflect an emerging trend in the Philippines arts scene, one where arts organisations are increasingly embodying Indigenous or community-centred interpretations of art.
- Read the #GreenGuide for the Philippines.
- Read the directory of arts organisations in the Philippines.
Since 2015, ASEF has been publishing the series Creative Responses to Sustainability through its arts & culture portal, culture360.ASEF.org. This series of country-specific guides looks at arts organisations that address issues of sustainability in their artistic practice in several countries of Asia and Europe. The previous guides focused on Singapore (2015), Korea (2016), Indonesia (2017), Australia (2018), Portugal (2019), Spain (2019), United Kingdom (2021) and India (2025), with the spin-off in the series on the city of Berlin (2017).