See our latest blog post — original content from a ClimateCultures member:
A Personal Anthropocene History #14: Bronze Bell, Sea-bed Oak, Wayang Kulit Shadow Puppet
Explore more great content – recent and archive – from our members, below.
Creative Responses to Our Nature & Climate Predicaments
ClimateCultures is an online space for creative minds to share responses to our ecological and climate predicaments. Launched in 2017, we are a growing network of artists, researchers and curators across the UK and around the world working across many practices, disciplines and spaces. Novelists, short story writers, performers, poets, playwrights, painters, composers, illustrators, photographers, filmmakers, sculptors, designers, digital artists, multimedia artists, gallery owners, online curators, creative producers, cultural activists, historians, biologists, archaeologists, geographers, environmental technologists, climate researchers — and more.
Scroll down to see a rich taster of our evolving content — all exclusively from our members: our regular blog, a showcase with short examples of creative work, a growing collection of longer essays, and several special series featuring themed content.
The ClimateCultures blog
You can see our current post above. One of our members publishes original content on our blog every few weeks.
We now have over 200 posts from more than 80 authors. You can find these under our Blog menu arranged by year or by our categories: * A History of the Anthropocene in 50 Objects * Art & Eco Activism * Challenges of Creative Engagement * Conversations * Creative Works * Cultural Change * Endangered Worlds * Environmental Change * Environmental Keywords * Gifts of Sound and Vision * In the Elements * Learning in the Anthropocene * Longer * Preview * Review * Signals from the Edge * Spaces * Speculative Worlds * Spiritual Ecology. And you can explore individual members by searching for ‘Authors’ in the ClimateCultures Members Directory. And in our sidebar you can see some of the popular posts and pages that people are reading right now.
Here are three more of our most recent posts.
Exploring Regional Futures: An Entangled Existence
Life Worth Living: On Becoming a ‘Sustainable Stoic’
And here’s a sample from this month in previous years… 
“Where Have All The Birds Gone?”
Living (and Composing) in the Anthropocene
Seasons of Nature’s Gift and Natures Lost
You, Small Creatures, Big Monsters
Art Photography — Emotional Response to Global Crisis
Othering — on Woodlands, Maps and Language
“Summon the bravery!” Encounters at Small Earth
A Personal Anthropocene History #9: Incandescent Lightbulb, Plastic Bottle, ‘Whitechapel Fatberg’
More creative content from our members
Alongside our blog, we also use our Creative Showcase to share short insights into our members’ work. Our latest showcase items are:
“For Rituals and Visuals: a Myth under my Skin”
Mother’s Lament
Drawing on Water
And we have a small but growing library of extended essays in our Longer feature:
Veronica Sekules: The Art and Heritage of Waste
Iain Biggs: Open Deep Mappings Today – a Personal Introduction
Jemma Jacobs: The Visuality of the Flint Water Crisis
Special themed series
As well as these regular features, we run special series on particular themes, gathering creative content and thoughts across a topic, such as our Quarantine Connection series during the first Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020, and our exploration during 2022 of three Environmental Keywords — ‘Justice’, ‘Resilience’ and ‘Transitions’ — as part of a project by the University of Bristol’s Centre for Environmental Humanities.
And we’re pleased to host an online Museum of the Anthropocene, bringing a selection of the objects nominated by students on the University of East Anglia’s 3rd-year undergraduate course, Human Geography in the Anthropocene.
Many of our regular blog posts are responses to our creative invitations, such as A History of the Anthropocene in 50 Objects, Gifts of Sound and Vision, and Signals from the Edge. You’ll find these collected under our Curious Minds menu, alongside the Quarantine Connection and Environmental Keywords series.
Explore, comment and share
ClimateCultures is an approach to building creative conversations between and beyond different appreciations of what the climate and ecological predicaments of our times mean, and what they offer us as ways forward. It’s a beginning.
Do explore our archive, use the comment features to join the conversation, and let others know about us.
How ClimateCultures began, What we’re about & Who we are
You can find more about the initiative’s genesis and context in our About pages: About our platform, About the global predicaments we focus on, About our Members. The ClimateCultures Members Directory gives links to each of our artists, researchers and curators and the work they are doing and the posts and other content they share here on our site.
