ART/ TECH/ NATURE/ CULTURE CREATIVE AND CURATORIAL RESIDENCY
2021 - 2022

CreaTures Art/ Tech/ Nature/ Culture is a global community of practice for creative experimenters engaged in ecological art forms across disciplines.

My residency took place between September 2021 - September 2022 and was based online. I sent out monthly emails to a list of 450+ audience members with ideas, thoughts and activities relating to how we feel in the face of the climate crisis. My initial ideas for the residency are below:

‘I will ask the group to individually stand and face the landscape and ask themselves how they feel about the changes to the environment that we are facing. 

I will collect their responses to find common threads and explore these further. Using these feelings as motivation, the members will collectively bring their research interests to the group where we can share our knowledge and skills to create an international and powerful network of thinkers and makers to make informed positive change.

Sharing research, experience and cultural perspectives will equip the group with the tools they need to create an interdisciplinary network. I will be led by their passions and interests to create a programme of events and experiences that offer new provocations which will help to inform their own practices and environmental thinking. The peer to peer networking will open up new knowledge pathways and opportunities for the group, which will lead to future collaborations across disciplines.’

The CreaTures project (Creative Practices for Transformational Futures) demonstrates the power of existing – yet often hidden – creative practices to move the world towards eco-social sustainability. The key rationale for the project is that transformations towards more sustainable ways of life are urgently required.

Through experimental co-creation, observation, and evaluation of diverse transformational creative practices, followed by a direct engagement of various stakeholders (including policymakers, researchers, artists, designers, and members of the public), the CreaTures project aims to generate insights that would allow creative practitioners to focus their efforts more effectively and policy-makers to see the merit of employing these techniques.

Find out more about the Creatures project here. The project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

By clicking on each image below you will find an activity I created for my residency.