Just sustainability arts: a vibrant convergence

At a time when violence is worsening across structures of historical domination and influencing the condition of vital ecological systems, imaginative engagement with just sustainabilities offers a different path. This paper represents theory-building inspired by two educational designers' field experiences with justice, sustainability and the arts. Leveraging the method of the transdisciplinary imagination to tackle complex and intransigent problems and informed by a transformative, transgressive lens on social learning, the two authors explore how nine literatures converge to inform just sustainability arts. Socially conscious arts and arts-based educational research open up enlivening educational practices at the nexus of transdisciplinary approaches such as environmental and climate justice, ecofeminism, critical place and land pedagogies, bioculturally responsive curriculum and systems thinking.