HUMANISTIC VALUES IN THE REALITIES OF THE MODERN WORLD

Open­ing Cer­e­mo­ny

UNESCO Chair on Music, Edu­ca­tion and Sci­ence for Peace at the Ukrain­ian Nation­al Tchaikovsky Acad­e­my of Music
Prof. Dr. Her­man Makarenko

Pre­sen­ta­tion by Prof. Dr. Ben­no Werlen:
The Arts for Glob­al Sustainability

Mind­sets, dai­ly rou­tines and habits depend very much on everyone’s cul­tur­al back­ground. How we do things depends very much on what they sig­ni­fy to us, how we see the world and our place in it. The arts in all their forms are cru­cial for expand­ing mind­sets, pro­vid­ing new per­spec­tives on how to see things and ways of liv­ing. How we live as part of nature with nature. To mobi­lize artists for a deep soci­etal trans­for­ma­tion is there­fore of core rel­e­vance. We need to con­nect and sup­port artists from all dif­fer­ent ori­en­ta­tions for a broad­est pos­si­ble arts move­ment across all con­ti­nents, all prac­ticed lan­guages, to rebuild our atti­tude to nature through new visions and its regen­er­a­tive trans­for­ma­tion. In short: We have to pro­mote new ways of liv­ing sus­tain­ably in all cul­tur­al and region­al vari­eties. All this is call­ing for new ways of work­ing togeth­er beyond nation­al, insti­tu­tion­al or dis­ci­pli­nary boundaries.