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The factors that characterise the environmental crisis - climate change, the depletion of non-renewable energy resources, the loss of biological diversity and the massive production of waste - combine with the gradual disintegration of a large part of social achievements. The need to adopt new economic patterns, to make a drastic change in the consumption of resources in all areas, has been demonstrated for decades. Although techno-scientific knowledge is moving in the right direction, it is essential to establish new codes of conduct among citizens. The dissemination of scientific facts is not enough to encourage us to change our habits: it is necessary to renew the principles underlying desires and motivations for action. Here art provides a very significant resource for an ecological transition towards sustainability.

Images and words, the different artistic languages that operate on the symbolic, emotional and aesthetic level, serve to interpret our perceptions of the world and mediate in the construction of sensibilities and thought. Historically, artistic manifestations have provided innovative insights that have served to unravel the relationships of human beings with their biophysical environment or to understand nature.  Art, therefore, is linked to knowledge, to policies and to the ethical positioning of each society.In this AusArt monograph we want to make room for explicitly ecological or environmentalist art forms.We are interested in a type of political and social art that is governed by a commitment to action; that is characterised by critical knowledge, collaboration or participation in the local challenges of ecological transition with a global perspective, integrating values such as empathy, equality and social justice. And which consistently adopts austerity and respect for biocultural environments as unavoidable premises for its materialisation.

Your proposals (original and unpublished) will be submitted through the Open Journal Systems platform (www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/Ausart) before 7 April 2024. The file with the article will not include either the name or any element identifying its author(s) and must include:

• the title of the article (+ English translation);
• summary (a single paragraph ± 150 words) + summary in English (idem);
• up to five key words and their English translation,
• text (± 3000 words) with optional images and graphics; bibliographical references according to the Chicago author-year format.
• If possible, it is recommended to suggest the names of TWO REVIEWERS (name, 2 surnames, affiliation and e-mail address) who are specialists in the subject addressed, for the evaluation of the article. Such reviewers should not belong to the same institution as the author, nor to UPV/EHU, nor imply any conflict of interest, and may not necessarily be assigned in the review phase.