Culture plays an important role in connecting and mediating the three pillars of sustainability: economic, social, and ecological. It provides a common language to balance competing demands and give meaning to sustainable development. Culture can translate reactions to development and mediate the relationship between society and environment. For sustainable development to be achieved, the diverse values and expressions of culture must be understood and embraced, while also recognizing culture's role in co-producing practices through human intentionality.
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Culture plays an important role in connecting and mediating the three pillars of sustainability: economic, social, and ecological. It provides a common language to balance competing demands and give meaning to sustainable development. Culture can translate reactions to development and mediate the relationship between society and environment. For sustainable development to be achieved, the diverse values and expressions of culture must be understood and embraced, while also recognizing culture's role in co-producing practices through human intentionality.
Culture plays an important role in connecting and mediating the three pillars of sustainability: economic, social, and ecological. It provides a common language to balance competing demands and give meaning to sustainable development. Culture can translate reactions to development and mediate the relationship between society and environment. For sustainable development to be achieved, the diverse values and expressions of culture must be understood and embraced, while also recognizing culture's role in co-producing practices through human intentionality.
Second role, connecting and mediating. Culture as driver of sustainability
processes; this transcends the drawbacks and benefits of ecological, economic and social development. Economic, social and ecological sustainability afforded by culture. Since all human beings both have culture and are cultural human beings, we need a broader conceptualisation of culture that includes the diversity of human values, subjective meanings, expressions and life-modes, and that allows us to distinguish between differences in culture and between cultures in a fruitful way, without making judgments about qualities of art and culture. Culture is the meaningful content of human societies and communities. It is made by individuals within societies whilst simultaneously also shaping their lives and existence. In terms of sustainabilitys three pillars, culture can be the way to balance competing or conflicting demands and work through communication to give human and social meaning to sustainable development. Culture can be a go between or intermediary to connect the various dimensions of sustainability. Culture processes and translates into a common language the ecologically, environmentally and socially founded reactions to proposed development or imminent avoidable change. Generally speaking however some sort of lens or filter is required to understand how culture mediates the relation between society and environment. One might be the concept of landscape, for example, another might be the context of territorialisation, a third could be ecosystems services, and creativity might be fourth example. All require a cultural context and an understanding and welcoming of diversity of cultural expressions, and most importantly some level of co-production rooted in human intentionality expressed in practices, i.e. culture. The fact that the potential of cultures mediating role has rarely been exploited perhaps why sustainable development has proved to be so elusive.