Skip to content

ClimateCultures – creative conversations for the Anthropocene

exploring cultural responses to environmental change

  • About
    • ClimateCultures
    • Our Ecological & Climate Predicaments
    • Our Members
  • Creative Showcase
  • ClimateCultures Blog
    • 2023 Members’ Posts
    • 2022 Members’ Posts
    • 2021 Members’ Posts
    • 2020 Members’ Posts
    • 2019 Members’ Posts
    • 2018 Members’ Posts
    • 2017 Members’ Posts
    • Explore our posts by category
  • Longer
    • Open Deep Mappings Today – a Personal Introduction
    • The Visuality of the Flint Water Crisis
  • NEW: Museum of the Anthropocene
    • Inside the Museum
  • Resources
    • Anthropocene Learning
    • ClimateCultures Reviews
    • Links
    • Creative opportunities
  • Curious Minds
    • A History of the Anthropocene in 50 Objects
    • Environmental Keywords
      • ‘Environmental Justice’ – Taking the Conversation Forward
      • ‘Environmental Resilience’ – Taking the Conversation Forward
      • ‘Environmental Transitions’ – Taking the Conversation Forward
      • NEW: Environmental Keywords – Towards an Undisciplined Glossary
    • Gifts of Sound & Vision
    • Quarantine Connection
      • Week 8
      • Week 7
      • A Creative Pause
      • Week 6
      • Week 5
      • Week 4
      • Week 3
      • Week 2
      • Week 1
    • Signals from the Edge
    • Space for Creative Thinking
  • Get involved
    • Receive our free Re:Culture newsletter
    • Join ClimateCultures
    • Contribute to our blog
  • Contact
ClimateCultures – creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Previous image
Next image

Rock Pools in the Desert III, © Robynne Limoges

Rock Pools in the Desert III, © Robynne Limoges

Posted on 19th July 201824th July 2018 Full size 2100 × 1400

Post navigation

Published inRock Pools in the Desert III, © Robynne Limoges

Search our content

Search our members

ClimateCultures is a network of over 200 artists, curators & researchers in many countries. Our Directory showcases the diversity of interests, practices & works bringing creative responses to our ecological and climate crises. You can search for individual members below.

NEW FEATURE: Museum of the Anthropocene

Our new feature shares content from a project that geographer Dr Martin Mahony has been running with third-year students on the University of East Anglia’s Geography and Environmental Sciences course. Opening with Martin’s post, Object-based Learning in the Anthropocene, our online Museum of the Anthropocene includes an inaugural selection of objects from previous years’ students. “The project is designed to give students freedom to use their objects to explore what being a citizen of the Anthropocene means to them. From world-changing technologies to humble consumer goods, and from family heirlooms to priceless works of art, each year the Museum is stocked with objects which tell stories of both personal and planetary significance.”

NEW In our Creative Showcase

The latest feature of recent work from our members is Mad Maggie and the Wisdom of the Ancients, Rod Raglin‘s third novel in his ‘Eco-Warriors’ series that explores normal people’s attempts to confront urgent environmental issues.  Also: What Man Has Wrought, Michael Gresalfi‘s seven-panel installation making creative use of styrofoam with melted wax, acrylics and a heat gun to reflect humanity’s darker side and visions of a world we risk if we fail to make restoring our Earth our shared priority. Explore these and many other works: comic books, courses, film, fiction, nonfiction, memoir, music, poetry, stand-up comedy, visual art, zines and more.

Longer: our special feature for exploring in depth

Longer is the ClimateCultures offering of works that don’t fit within the normal ‘short reads’ format of our blog: essays, stories or other forms that haven’t been freely available online elsewhere, although they may have appeared in print or other formats. Our latest Longer piece is Open Deep Mapping: Conversations-in-process, Places-in-time, an essay from independent artist and researcher Iain Biggs.

Environmental Keywords – interdisciplinary conversations

Throughout 2022, we worked with the University of Bristol Centre for Environmental Humanities to explore interdisciplinary meanings of some keywords in our climate and biodiversity crisis. Our online materials complement the University’s workshops for researchers, community groups and creative practitioners. See our project pages for blog posts and more than 25 creative contributions from our members on themes of Environmental Justice, Resilience and Transitions – and our prototype ‘Undisciplined Glossary’!

Our Latest Posts

  • Create the Future – Creatives in Residence for Climate Change 20th March 2023
  • Ecoart Case Studies – Theory into Practice 2nd March 2023
  • Super Wicked Problem – or, the Crisis Formerly Known as Climate 7th February 2023
  • Ecoart Activities – Working With Place & People 10th January 2023
  • Object-based Learning in the Anthropocene 14th December 2022

New Members

  • Inês Ferreira-Norman – an artist and researcher currently working with ceremonial performances and drawing/mark making, interested in research that deepens our understanding of matter, post-materialism and immateriality. 
  • Tehya Jennett – a filmmaker, Green Producer and environmentalist with roots in climate storytelling and activism, who has produced/directed two award-winning climate-focused short films.
  • Giovanni Enrico Morassutti – An actor, director, cultural entrepreneur, founder of Art Aia – Creatives In Residence, promoting environmental and biodiversity protection, inviting communities to take action on the climate emergency. 
  • Sarah Newman – Founder of the Climate Mental Health Network, passionate about using media, arts and culture for emotional resilience and wellbeing in the face of the climate crisis.

Our Authors: 2021, 2022 & 2023

These are our ClimateCultures blog authors for 2021 & 2022 and for 2023 so far (most recent authors in bold). For authors in previous years, see our full blog archive – and our Quarantine Connection, Creative Showcase and Environmental Keywords contributors too!

  • James Aldridge
  • Claire Atherton
  • Anthony Bennett
  • Iain Biggs
  • Hanien Conradie
  • Paul Feather
  • Chris Fremantle
  • Kim Goldsmith
  • Mark Goldthorpe
  • Brit Griffin
  • Stanley Grill
  • Mick Haining
  • Niels Hoek 
  • Susan Holliday
  • Andrew Howe
  • Sarah Hymas
  • Jemma Jacobs
  • Ivilina Kouneva
  • Rob La Frenais
  • Matt Law
  • Beckie Leach
  • Martin Mahony
  • Julia Marques
  • Indigo Moon
  • Helen Moore
  • Giovanni Enrico Morassutti
  • James Murray-White
  • Selva Ozelli
  • Lola Perrin
  • Genevieve Rudd
  • Nicky Saunter
  • Joan Sullivan
  • Mary Woodbury
  • Philip Webb Gregg
  • Veronica Worrall
  • Yky

Want to contribute?

Members: The ClimateCultures blog is a rich, diverse collection of original posts exclusively from our Members. If you’re an artist, curator or researcher exploring environmental or climate topics, join us. It’s free! Share your ideas and work on the blog. Feature your News in Brief in our monthly newsletter, Re:Culture.

Subscribers: Membership not for you? You can still subscribe to Re:Culture for free and feature your News in Brief there.

Contact, Follow and Share: Follow us on Facebook and Twitter; share our site with others; link to us from your site.

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

What are others reading?

  • The Ocean as Abject: Between Seduction and Defilement
    The Ocean as Abject: Between Seduction and Defilement
  • Create the Future - Creatives in Residence for Climate Change
    Create the Future - Creatives in Residence for Climate Change
  • Open Deep Mapping: Conversations-in-process, Places-in-time
    Open Deep Mapping: Conversations-in-process, Places-in-time
  • The Ocean as Abject: Painting as Installation
    The Ocean as Abject: Painting as Installation
  • Walking the Winds: Mistral
    Walking the Winds: Mistral

Popular Pages

  • Iain Biggs: Open Deep Mappings Today - a Personal Introduction
    Iain Biggs: Open Deep Mappings Today - a Personal Introduction
  • ... ClimateCultures
    ... ClimateCultures
  • Salviati Planisphere World Map, 1525
    Salviati Planisphere World Map, 1525
  • Museum of the Anthropocene
    Museum of the Anthropocene
  • A History of the Anthropocene in 50 Objects
    A History of the Anthropocene in 50 Objects

The dull bits

  • Site Policy
    • Disclaimer
    • Copyright
    • Privacy
  • About
    • ClimateCultures
    • Our Ecological & Climate Predicaments
    • Our Members
  • Creative Showcase
  • ClimateCultures Blog
    • 2023 Members’ Posts
    • 2022 Members’ Posts
    • 2021 Members’ Posts
    • 2020 Members’ Posts
    • 2019 Members’ Posts
    • 2018 Members’ Posts
    • 2017 Members’ Posts
    • Explore our posts by category
  • Longer
    • Open Deep Mappings Today – a Personal Introduction
    • The Visuality of the Flint Water Crisis
  • NEW: Museum of the Anthropocene
    • Inside the Museum
  • Resources
    • Anthropocene Learning
    • ClimateCultures Reviews
    • Links
    • Creative opportunities
  • Curious Minds
    • A History of the Anthropocene in 50 Objects
    • Environmental Keywords
      • ‘Environmental Justice’ – Taking the Conversation Forward
      • ‘Environmental Resilience’ – Taking the Conversation Forward
      • ‘Environmental Transitions’ – Taking the Conversation Forward
      • NEW: Environmental Keywords – Towards an Undisciplined Glossary
    • Gifts of Sound & Vision
    • Quarantine Connection
      • Week 8
      • Week 7
      • A Creative Pause
      • Week 6
      • Week 5
      • Week 4
      • Week 3
      • Week 2
      • Week 1
    • Signals from the Edge
    • Space for Creative Thinking
  • Get involved
    • Receive our free Re:Culture newsletter
    • Join ClimateCultures
    • Contribute to our blog
  • Contact
ClimateCultures – creative conversations for the Anthropocene Proudly powered by WordPress