SUSTAINABILITY AT THE FACULTY OF FINE ARTS

Knowledge sharing refers to the need within our community to create open-access and multi-directional pathways for communication about sustainable practices across faculty, staff, students and disciplines. Our community holds a wealth of information about sustainability, and meaningful work is already underway. The SOFA Action Plan supports this by encouraging connection, collaboration, and peer-to-peer learning.

Curriculum is a powerful space for sharing sustainable practices. Developing and delivering content that reflects environmental and social responsibility is a core part of our strategy — and key to preparing students for a changing world.

Sustainable innovation often emerges from grassroots initiatives — as punctual solutions to local challenges. We're committed to foster and support sustainable innovation at all levels, from all faculty members. As part of a wider ecosystem of partners — across the university, in the community, and in the corporate sector — we’re working to strengthen and scale up our sustainability efforts.

To engage meaningfully in sustainability, faculty and staff need to feel supported in their day-to-day work. We’re working to lighten administrative burden, streamline processes, and support informal collaboration — creating more space for creativity, care, and climate action.

Many of our processes are governed by systems beyond the individual user's control. We aim to foster the emergence of micro-interventions within larger systems, allowing users to make sustainable decisions on questions of material care, reuse and circularity. We also aim to empower our area-level experts to become sustainability champions within their fields of practice.