The UNESCO Chair of Cultural Policies and Management, linked to the Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation and the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, presents, as a contribution to the debates around Mondiacult 2025, the publication “(Des)Envolvimento Sustentável e Políticas Culturais”, a collection of texts by Brazilian researchers and experts in cultural policy. It proposes an urgent and necessary dialogue between culture, nature, and development.
The work challenges the very idea of sustainable development and proposes the urgency of “sustainable involvement,” understood as care, listening, and citizen participation —fundamental dimensions for our practices and for cultural policies, both governmental and non-governmental.
The publication highlights the need to definitively overcome the dichotomy between culture and nature and proposes a new paradigm: biocultural diversity as the foundation of a sensitive, situated, and just development model.