Cities need new strategies for conservation and climate change resilience that engage global narrators, unite diverse perspectives and mobilise an increasingly despondent public. This chapter examines community arts as a potential resource for the eco-city, including how incorporating creative perspectives into sustainability communication can open up new ways of thinking about how cities are reimagined for an ecological paradigm. Community arts can provide a unique platform for empowering communities across natural, constructed, economic and cultural systems, thereby contributing to the public's knowledge and care of their local environment. Using a participatory design and theatre-making project as a case study (The Bower Stage, Armidale, Australia, 2016), the chapter demonstrates how incorporating both creative and ecological perspectives can enrich environmental citizenship and connection for the eco-city.
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Beer, T., Curtis, D., & Collins, J. (2018). Innovation: Creativity as a renewable resource for the eco-city. In Enabling Eco-Cities: Defining, Planning, and Creating a Thriving Future (pp. 21–41). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7320-5_3
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