Sustainaissance in Practice: Quiet Materials, Loud Meanings

Abstract

This Special Issue aligns closely with the journal’s focus on creative multimedia, practice-led research, and interdisciplinary inquiry by foregrounding artistic and design practices as critical lenses for examining contemporary issues of sustainability, identity, and human experience. In this issue, readers will encounter the following works: Drowning in Silence; Bloom Through Time; The Hand of Life; Yang Last Siapa?; Life and Music; INKINERARY: 31 Journeys of Identity and Imagination; Shattered Dates; After the Leaves; Tapestry of Co-Creation; Frozen Whispers; Navarasa x Navagrahas; The Self that Still Survives; and Terlaksana. Collectively, these works form a curated reflection on how emotion, expression, and identity operate as vital instruments for sustainable thought within contemporary art and design practice.