Focus

SustainMe is a Special Focus Group and a call for action within the EAS community. It engages members in exploring sustainability as a central theme for music education – examining the politics of unsustainability, imagining alternatives, and co-creating just, resilient, and vibrant educational ecosystems.

SustainMe invites collective inquiry into systemic change across educational practices, policies and cultures, informed by intersectional, posthuman, and future-oriented perspectives. Through creative formats, open dialogues, and critical reflections, SustainME works as a living laboratory for sustainable transformation.

Aims

Guided by the EAS mission, SustainME positions ecological sustainability as an urgent and transformative framework. It approaches sustainability not only as theory but as practice – enacted through participatory, creative, and activist interventions at EAS conferences and beyond. The SFG aims to

1) reimagine music education through sustainability and

2) activate ethical and inclusive practices.

Aligning our activities with the theme of the annual conference, SustainME creates hands-on testing grounds where teachers, researchers, students, and policy-makers can try out sustainable ways of gathering, collaborating, and imagining.

Through low-impact activities, shared resources, and participatory sessions, we explore and model how sustainability may take shape in everyday educational practice. SustainME brings together a growing community committed to shaping music education’s role in a more just and interconnected world.