New blog posts on sustainability at Aichi Triennale and knowledge production in Korea
DIJ researchers Carolin Fleischer-Heininger and Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus have contributed articles to the DIJ’s Sustainability in Japan and Beyond blog and the TRAFO Blog for Transregional Research, respectively. Carolin’s article “Tracing Sustainability at the Aichi Triennale 2025 in Japan” reports on her experience as a visitor of the Aichi Triennale 2025, a well-established art festival mainly held in the city of Nagoya, from the perspective of someone who is visually impaired. “Addressing cultural, social and ecological dimensions of sustainability and often also gaining inspiration and authority from personal experience”, she writes, the Triennale “validates sustainability as a matter of responsibility and of justice to give voice to the perspectives that are less prominent in most debates on eco-social sustainability.” Dolf’s article “Beyond Binaries: Decentring Foreign Knowledge in 20th Century Korea”, part of the blog series “De-centering Academia: InterAsian Perspectives”, draws on the history of education in 20th century (South) Korea to examine the historical development and adaption of foreign epistemologies and knowledge systems in Korea.