Sustainable Environment and Culture, Asia-Pacific

SECAP provides a platform to explore a deeper understanding of the ways in which biological diversity and cultural diversity are interdependent. It is hosted by the Queensland College of Art Griffith University in the South Bank cultural precinct on the Brisbane River. 

Through their artistic practice, members of SECAP recognise the interdependence of cultural expressions and environmental custodianship, and seek to research, encourage, support, and contribute to cultural practices that are ecologically, socially and economically sustainable in the Asia-Pacific region

As the demands to respond to the problems of climate change increase, Australians are faced with many issues that will require interwoven cultural and environmental responses.  To date, a fully developed understanding of the interconnectedness of the cultural and ecological complexity of the region has not been fully explored. Although there is growing appreciation of the rich diversity and expression of contemporary indigenous cultural production of the region, there has been little research into the ways in which this production is intimately tied to custodianship of land and waterways in the Asia-Pacific