Researcher
An artistic director interested in how art practices can bring empowering messages about climate, and a senior lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts (University of Birmingham).
A social anthropologist researching scientific, artistic, cultural and environmental histories of Brazilian landscapes, with a special interest in climate change, Anthropocene, nature and society, and imagination.
A professor of Geography (Durham University), exploring how ‘climate change’ is a form of power shaping who we are and how we act in the world.
An emerging new media artist whose artistic strategies for understanding natural processes reflect previous research as a metallurgist and lifelong interests in nature, photography and science.
A visual artist in analogue and digital media, fascinated by the ways built and natural structures change over time, currently exploring the ephemeral nature of wetlands.
An artist, educator, activist and collaborator across disciplines creating events, performances and projects that invite people into enquiring relationships with each other and the land.
A reader in Ecological Linguistics (University of Gloucestershire), writer on language, reconnection with nature, the stories we live by, and founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association.
An artist, teacher and storyteller creating experiences for participation with the natural environment, and training as a facilitator in deep listening and the work that reconnects.
Director of Creative Carbon Scotland, supporting the essential role of arts and culture in transformational change to a sustainable future, and a researcher exploring behaviour change.
An independent researcher and creative curator, founding Climate Museum UK as an emerging mobile kit of ‘loose parts’ that creatively stirs responses to the climate emergency.
An interdisciplinary artist and founder of the Nomad/9 Interdisciplinary MFA, exploring resiliency through poetic intervention and pragmatic engagement, including intimate interspecies works and international educational initiatives.
An artist and researcher exploring eco-social wellbeing by bringing art and non-art practices together in creative practice and offering Ecoliteracy learning for the arts.
A biologist with a research focus on Rewilding and an interest in applying its concepts to integrate human and ecological systems for the benefit of all.
A writer, editor, performer, project-maker and researcher exploring ways of bringing together traditional story forms and science communication with a focus on ecological wonder tales.
A PhD researcher exploring the ways in which encounters with interactive art may offer us different ways of knowing climate change.
An editor of Green Christian and organiser of an environment group, using films, music and poetry to communicate climate change and motivate group formation.
An environmental geographer interested in coastal management and nature conservation in times of a changing climate, with a current focus on the Wadden Sea coast.
A researcher interested in environmental humanities, focusing on tourism discourses about nature and its ethical values.
A writer and photographer, using these to inform, educate, discuss, and make people think about the world around us and our impact upon it.
A fine artist concerned with place and belonging, informed by the cosmology of African animism within the complex human and other-than-human networks that encompass a landscape.
A visual artist who paints and draws onto discarded plastic bags, packaging and paper, and is exploring an intrinsic connection towards nature that we have lost.
A professor of Biology (University College London) whose research focuses on natural and cultural value and the impact of environmental change on biodiversity.
A poet, writer, performer and musician working on tropical forests and land rights, oil extraction, biological diversity, patents on life, biofuels, climate change and much more.
An independent artist, teacher and researcher interested in place seen through the lens of Felix Guattari’s ecosophy, working extensively on ‘deep mapping’, other projects and publications.
A researcher focused on subjects that connect science and design fields and have deep critical and social impact, such as sustainability, culture, heritage and education.
A poet and critic interested in climate change, nonhuman representation and ecopoetics, whose debut poetry collection, ‘Significant Other’, addresses the effect of climate change on biodiversity.
A postgraduate student researching ecomusicology and ecospiritual music, and a singer and musician exploring ecological themes.
A historical geographer interested in the history of modernity and modern spaces, studying modernity in transnational perspective, geographical frontiers and the nature/culture divide.
A writer and visual artist who has created several environmental poetry installations and collaborated on a dance–poem juxtaposing the natural world and the city in movement.
An interdisciplinary artist-curator, publisher and climate activist endeavouring to reveal creative patterns embodied within our symbiosis with places, environments, natural systems, and with each other.
A writer and filmmaker linking art forms to dialogue around climate issues, whose practice stretches back to theatre-making.
An artist, producer and researcher whose practice is embedded in long-term research and fieldwork, developing a body of work concerned with fear and isolation within society.
An ‘undisciplined’ researcher exploring how re-presentations — popular culture, arts, media, and scenarios — of futures, presents and pasts shape problem formulations, expectations and action (or the lack).
A climate change dramatist interested in how theatre and art can help people make sense of science and all the changes our planet is going through.
An artist and PhD student using the life cycles and movements of moths to investigate how we can reconnect with the other-than-human through materials and making.
A researcher helping arts and cultural organisations to improve their environmental and energy management and understand their inter-dependencies and relationships with natural and human made systems.
A researcher investigating the role of arts venues in the context of climate change, and Founder of ONCA, a gallery and performance space inspiring positive action.
An artist-researcher who develops interpretive and participatory positions within the community, contributes to eco-social actions, and creates interactive artworks to disseminate the community’s embodied knowledge.
A professor of Anthropology focusing on how Maya and other societies dealt with climate change: the emergence and demise of political power, ritual and water management.
A poet, research student and sci-art practitioner, interested in practitioner-led discourse and new collaborations to take her Rachel Carson-focused work to events, festivals and conferences.
An assistant professor in Politics and International Studies (Warwick University) whose research explores ethical theory in the context of apocalyptic narratives of climate change.
An independent researcher, project and events manager, and writer on environmental and climate change issues – investigating, supporting and delivering cultural and creative responses.
A vicar of a remote rural parish, exploring how communities can become resilient and sustainable in the face of climate change.
A human geographer interested in the contemporary politics of climate change, how future atmospheres are imagined, constructed, represented and contested and historical geographies of environmental knowledge-making.
A visual artist, writer and essayist whose work’s central question is what ecological recovery requires of us, faced with anthropogenic mass-extinction.
An environmental change & sustainability researcher interested in environmental archaeology and public engagement, working on a theatre project to explore climate change’s disruption of everyday lives.
A researcher, coach, facilitatior and consultant with cultural, arts and heritage organisations, specialising in creative nature-based and mindfulness-based approaches.
A set and costume designer focusing on sustainability, heritage crafts and social history, and associate artist with Art Rise Up, a group merging art and activism.
A renewable energy technologies expert, leading the Zero Carbon Britain research at the Centre for Alternative Technology.
An artist and PhD candidate addressing the Anthropocene through art-based practice in contemporary painting and adopting an intimate, tactile, sensitive mode of painting everyday objects.
An academic and artist exploring global environmental change and provisionality in architectural thinking and practice, who convenes the Culture and Climate Change research and engagement framework.
A writer exploring the world through short stories, novels, poetry and non-fiction, who sees climate change as potentially existential for fellow travellers on planet Earth.
An historian of air studying how humans have tried to understand the atmosphere, working with media and museums to tell compelling stories grounded in archival documents.
A researching, collaborating, exhibiting artist and curator, using video, drawing, performance, sculpture and narrative that interweave fact and fiction to explore possible sustainable futures.
A writer, artist and educator, producing picture books, a novel and songs, with a background teaching and facilitating arts and sustainability with schools and communities.
A writer, editor, researcher and activist exploring the cultural shift required to live regeneratively and adapt well to the Anthropocene.
A non-fiction writer and documentary maker inspired by dwelling, working and walking in the land and stories of the people who are a part of it.
An artist who co-creates spaces of naming, questioning, healing and desiring in dedication to humans and non-humans who experience intimately the violent consequences of our disconnect.
A researcher, film maker and festival manager creating strategies to deliver sustainability through the arts and research ways to disseminate education in an entertaining way.
An architect, sustainable designer and writer interested in the medium of text, exploring the repercussions of climate change through the lens of calculations, designs and technicalities.
A senior lecturer in Environmental Technologies (Open University), writer and performer of playful attempts at disrupting our relationship with climate change: science, psychology and surreal dance.
A social scientist researching communication and public understanding of climate change, with a background in psychology and interest in creative and artistic approaches to climate change.
A teacher of ethics, literature, creative writing and environmental humanities, interested in embodiment, affect, ecocriticism, and climate change narratives relating to future identities in critical posthumanism.
An art curator, educator and writer with a background in the environmental movement, who has created GroundWork Gallery to showcase art and campaign for the environment.
A researcher and writer on performance and ecology, investigating how one ‘hears’ enmeshed dimensions of the human and other-than-human and the sonic languages of place.