Aerowaves, in collaboration with EDN and Versopolis, will host a series of four annual webinars on the impact of digital tools in the cultural sector.
How can we use digital tools in ways that are innovative, sustainable, and responsible?
Digital technologies shape every aspect of our cultural and artistic practices. They help us connect, create, and collaborate, but they also come with environmental costs, social inequities, and organisational challenges.
This new four-part webinar series, hosted by Aerowaves in collaboration with EDN and Versopolis, invites us to reflect together and discover practical ways to make our digital practices more sustainable.
Curated by David Irle, a consultant specialising in the ecological transition of the cultural sector, each webinar will blend hands-on tips with collective reflection. We’ll start with everyday office routines and build towards bigger systemic questions such as the regulation of artificial intelligence. Step by step, we’ll co-create a shared checklist of responsible digital practices to guide our work.
Who is it for?
This seminar is especially addressed to partner organisations of Aerowaves, EDN and Versopolis. We warmly encourage our members to invite their colleagues within their organisation to take part. Please note that the invitation is not open to further organisations.
The first part of each webinar will be recorded and published online, so the conversations can continue and inspire a wider audience.
Annual Topics
Webinar 1 – Responsible digital practices in the workplace
Webinar 2 – Artistic practices and the digital realm
Webinar 3 – Mobility versus digital
Webinar 4 – Artificial Intelligence: cultural practices and political regulations
Why take part?
By joining the webinars, you’ll explore practical ways to make your daily digital routines more sustainable and contribute to shaping a shared checklist for responsible digital practices.
Responsible digital practices in the workplace
Join us on Monday, 13 October | 10-11.30am CET for the first webinar, when we focus on how cultural organisations can reduce the environmental impact of their everyday digital office practices (emails, cloud storage, websites, hardware use, etc.), while also improving team organisation and wellbeing at work.
We will highlight the environmental footprint of digital tools but also consider how operating more economically can become a lever for better efficiency and healthier work environments.
About the speaker
Gwendolenn Sharp is the founder and director of The Green Room (2016), a non-profit organisation dedicated to environmental sustainability in the music sector.
She co-develops and facilitates training programmes, workshops, and collective strategies for organisations, venues, and networks with a collective and context-based approach.
Her expertise focuses on capacity building, digital transition, sustainable mobility and international cultural cooperation.
Schedule
Introduction to the webinar cycle (5’)
Reducing digital emissions in cultural organisations (20’)
Q&A and discussion (10’)
Practical workshop: towards a sustainable digital checklist (40’)
Further reading & resources (5’)
Participants will learn how to adopt more sustainable digital practices in their daily work, from email habits to hosting choices, towards more sobriety in their digital use.
Register now
Register by 9 October and receive the Zoom link to access the webinar.
EDN's commitments
As a certified member of the SHIFT Culture eco-certification, EDN actively works to reduce its environmental footprint and to strengthen ecological responsibility across its network. Responsible digital practice is a central part of this mission. Read more about SHIFT Eco Certificate →
Within EDN’s EU-funded Network project, the DIGITAL strand focuses on cross-sector collaboration for digital innovation and access. This webinar series makes a tangible contribution to that strand by exploring how digital tools can serve cultural professionals without compromising ecological care, equity, or ethics. Learn more about Embodied Transformations →