Cultural Sustainability in Art-Based Interdisciplinary Dialogue

This article introduces an international and interdisciplinary summer school, 'Living in the Landscape' (LiLa) in 2018. LiLa's practices focused on creating dialogue among art education, anthropology and nature science and developing culturally sustainable methods for investigating cultural heritage in the Komi Republic of Russia. The article's research interest is how dialogue and cultural heritage appear in the artistic processes, artworks and final exhibition of the summer school. These are examined through art-based action research in order to develop international, multidisciplinary and culturally sustainable art education. The four-field model utilised in the research highlights the multidimensional role of dialogue in both individual and collaborative artistic endeavours.