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2017Bendor, Roy | Maggs, David | Peake, Rachel | Robinson, John | Williams, SteveThe imaginary worlds of sustainability: observations from an interactive art installationEcology and Society
DOI:10.5751/ES-09240-220217
222We report on preliminary results from a public engagement project based on a procedural approach to sustainability. The project centered on an interactive art installation that comprised a live actor, an immersive soundscape featuring a handful of different characters, an interactive touch-table, and four interactive rooms within which participants wandered, partially guided by a narrative through-line, yet at the same time left to make sense of any larger meanings on their own. The installation was designed to experiment with two propositions: (1) that there is value in public engagement with sustainability based on the exploration and articulation of deeply held beliefs about the world—the worldviews, values, and presuppositions that mediate perception and action; (2) that there is value in replacing the infocentric tendency of most public engagement on sustainability with an approach premised in aesthetics and experiential resonance. Following the installation’s two-week pilot run, our preliminary results indicated that the majority of participants found the experience both resonant and thought provoking, and were mostly willing to critically engage with their preexisting notions of sustainability.
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2019Doll, Shauna | Wright, TaraClimate Change Art: Examining How the Artistic Community Expresses the Climate CrisisThe International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Artshttps://doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v14i02/13-29142Common Ground Research Networks"Climate change is not a scientific problem but a cultural one. Although science has been able to identify the various biogeochemical problems related to climate change, it has failed to elicit a widespread meaningful behavioural response. Thus, the solution to the climate crisis is not more science, but initiatives that encourage the development of pro-environment cultural norms. This study identifies works and investigates the expressions of the artistic community related to the climate crisis. By identifying and exploring a 200-piece sample of the current body of climate change art, we were able to identify twenty-eight themes related to climate change art and categorize them under the four meta themes of: cause; outcome; solution; and abstract. By so doing, this preliminary study documents climate change art, and enables the scholarly community to better understand how the artistic community is internalizing and expressing the climate change problem."
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2020Hudson Hill, ShiraleeA Terrible Beauty: Art and Learning in the AnthropoceneJournal of Museum Education
https://doi.org/10.1080/10598650.2020.1723357
74-90451Art has the power to activate learning and emotion in unique ways—this is true of humans generally, and museum visitors specifically. Yet art galleries are often overlooked in the museum field as forums for dialogue and sites of learning about climate change. This article investigates the significance of artist-led projects and art museum exhibitions in engaging visitors with issues of climate change and greater planetary change through the lens of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Anthropocene exhibition featuring the work of Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier and the related Anthropocene Project by the same trio of artists.
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2011Yusoff, Kathryn | Gabrys, JenniferClimate change and the imaginationWIREs Climate Change
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.117
https://www.academia.edu/1006118/Climate_change_and_the_imagination
516-53424This review article surveys the complex terrain of the imagination as a way of understanding and exploring the manifestations of anthropogenic climate change in culture and society. Imagination here is understood as a way of seeing, sensing, thinking, and dreaming that creates the conditions for material interventions in, and political sensibilities of the world. It draws upon literary, filmic, and creative arts practices to argue that imaginative practices from the arts and humanities play a critical role in thinking through our representations of environmental change and offer strategies for developing diverse forms of environmental understanding from scenario building to metaphorical, ethical, and material investigations. The interplay between scientific practices and imaginative forms is also addressed. Thematically, this review addresses the modalities of climate futures, adaptive strategies, and practices of climate science in its study of key imaginative framings of climate change. WIREs Clim Change 2011 2 516–534 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.117 This article is categorized under: Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts
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2021Maggs, DavidArt and the World After ThisArt and the World After Thishttps://metcalffoundation.com/publication/art-and-the-world-after-this/Metcalf FoundationAbstract: "In Art and the World After This, Metcalf Innovation Fellow David Maggs outlines four interrelated disruptions faced by Canada’s non-profit arts sector and identifies the unique value art brings to society. As an artist, academic, and sustainability scholar, Maggs brings a unique perspective to the subject of disruption and transformation. The report is informed by consultations and conversations with numerous arts workers, funders, and academics from across the country and beyond.Collectively, we are facing the disruption of activity, stemming from COVID-19; the disruption of society, emerging from ballooning social unrest; the disruption of industry forced by the digital revolution; and finally, the disruption of world, rooted in the existential threat of the climate crisis. Maggs explores how the arts can serve a more applied and accountable role in society as a catalyst for meeting the profound challenges we face. The report makes the case for how this must be done not by instrumentalizing the arts, but by the arts doing that which only the arts can do. To proactively tackle the world’s complexity, Maggs argues for a shift towards a system-approach across the arts sector that can enable innovation and learning through a direct relationship to research and development (R&D). He introduces us to the idea of the complexity economy and asks us to consider three questions: What are we doing here anyway? To prepare for deep transformative change, this first question attempts to identify the arts sector’s essential value proposition. Is this an ecosystem or a zoo? The shift from a paradigm of ‘production and presentation’ to innovation will require adopting an integrated systems-approach. Can we learn our way out of this? This question considers the broad issue of the arts sector’s capacity to learn, especially through the lens of R&D. Driven by a sense of urgency and optimism, Art and the World After This makes the case for grounding the arts firmly in action as a powerful force for creating a better world."
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2018Galafassi, Diego | Kagan, Sacha | Milkoreit, Manjana | Heras, María | Bilodeau, Chantal | Bourke, Sadhbh Juarez | Merrie, Andrew | Pétursdóttir, Guðrún | Tàbara, Joan David Guerrero, Leonie ‘Raising the temperature’: the arts on a warming planet.Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainabilityhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.12.01071-7931"The search for decisive actions to remain below 1.5 °C of global temperature rise will require profound cultural transformations. Yet our knowledge of how to promote and bring about such deep transformative changes in the minds and behaviours of individuals and societies is still limited. As climate change unravels and the planet becomes increasingly connected, societies will need to articulate a shared purpose that is both engaging and respectful of cultural diversity. Thus, there is a growing need to ‘raise the temperature’ of integration between multiple ways of knowing climate change. We have reviewed a range of literatures and synthesized them in order to draw out the perceived role of the arts in fostering climate transformations. Our analysis of climate-related art projects and initiatives shows increased engagement in recent years, particularly with the narrative, visual and performing arts. The arts are moving beyond raising awareness and entering the terrain of interdisciplinarity and knowledge co-creation. We conclude that climate-arts can contribute positively in fostering the imagination and emotional predisposition for the development and implementation of the transformations necessary to address the 1.5 °C challenge."
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2018Tyszczuk, Renata | Smith, JoeCulture and climate change scenarios: the role and potential of the arts and humanities in responding to the ‘1.5 degrees target’Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainabilityhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187734351730105756-6431This paper critically assesses the role and potential of the arts and humanities in relation to the ‘1.5 degree target’ embedded within the Paris Agreement. Specifically, it considers the purpose of scenarios in inviting thinking about transformed futures. It includes a preliminary assessment of the Culture and Climate Change: Scenarios project, an example of arts and humanities engagement with a ‘1.5 °C future’. The paper argues that integrating more culturally rooted contributions into the creation and deliberation of climate change scenarios would enrich processes of future-thinking beyond climate model outputs. It would also test and extend some established practices of climate research and policy in anticipating and making futures. The paper suggests that the key characteristics of scenarios as a cultural form are that they provide space for collective, improvisational and reflexive modes of acting on and thinking about uncertain futures.
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2019Wright, Tarah | Liang, YichaoExamining the Scholarly Literature: A Bibliometric Study of Journal Articles Related to Sustainability and the ArtsSustainability
https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143780
1114The Arts shows great promise in working toward a sustainable future as they can have a significant influence on the development of cultural norms. Using bibliometrics, this study uncovers the current body of scholarly literature related to the intersection of sustainability and the Arts. The results show that while there are very few articles (n = 77) published in scholarly journals related to this area, the number of manuscripts and the number of journals publishing manuscripts related to this subject area is increasing. Further, while there is no one individual who stands out to date as a leader in this field, the results show that Australia and Canada have produced the most published articles. Finally, this study demonstrates that scholarly articles related to the Arts and sustainability are mostly being published in well-established interdisciplinary sustainability-related journals and journals associated with the field of education for sustainable development. The results of this study give a more definitive answer to the question: what scholarly literature resources currently exist on the intersection of the Arts and sustainability and offers the scholarly community a better idea of what and how those involved in this area are publishing and mobilizing knowledge regarding their work.
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2019Publicover, Jennifer | Wright, Tarah | Baur, Steven | Duinker, Peter N. Engaging with Environmental Issues as a Musician: Career Perspectives from the Musicians of the Playlist for the PlanetPopular Music and Societyhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03007766.2018.1426367?scroll=top&needAccess=true&role=tab167-187422Education plays an essential role in tackling humanity’s many environmental problems. Musicians, like other artists, may sometimes address environmental themes in their work. Whether or not they view themselves as such, they may at times act as environmental educators, communicators, and advocates through their art and other activities. We interviewed a cohort of musicians who engaged with environmental issues, both onstage and offstage, to uncover the parameters and impacts of this engagement on their lives in the music industry. Authenticity emerged as a prominent theme, as well as many perceived challenges, risks, mitigation strategies, and rewards associated with this work.
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2018Publicover, Jennifer | Wright, Tarah | Baur, Steven | Duinker, Peter N. Music as a Tool for Environmental Education and Advocacy: Artistic Perspectives from Musicians of the Playlist for the PlanetEnvironmental Education Research https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2017.1365356925-936247Environmental education is a key tool in humanity’s efforts to address environmental issues. The arts can help provide some of the affective components of environmental education – emotions, values, and motivations driving pro-environmental behavior. As one of the arts, music can captivate, entertain, and create a sense of community. Using non-probabilistic purposive sampling, we interviewed a cohort of environmentally aware musicians with the goal of understanding their mental constructions around the role of music in environmental education and advocacy. A constant comparative coding method was used to code the interviews. The analysis revealed four artistic and five quality dimensions that the participants considered when sharing their pro-environmental values through their music. The four artistic dimensions emerged as continua representing ranges of choice regarding how a musician might create and deliver an environment-related song. The five quality dimensions emerged as recommendations for effectiveness of messaging through art that is perceived as authentic.
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2013Wright, Tarah | Markle, Gary | Wuench, PeterThe Goggles Project: Using Street Theatre to Engage University Stakeholders in Discussions about SustainabilityCreative Education https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=34869105-10947BSustainable development has become a global priority. While a sustainable future cannot be achieved through changes and actions in one sector alone, education is a key component in working toward this goal. Universities in particular have a moral task as leaders in the ESD movement, and are important catalysts for moving towards a sustainable future. However, research shows that there is a general lack of engagement in, and knowledge of sustainability within the university community at large. This manuscript describes the Goggles Project which used street theatre as a creative way to engage the whole university community in discussions regarding sustainability and the role universities can and/or should play in achieving a sustainable future.
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2014Burch, Sarah | Shaw, Alison | Dale, Ann | Robinson, JohnTriggering transformative change: a development path approach to climate change response in communitiesClimate Policyhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2014.876342467-487144While climate change action plans are becoming more common, it is still unclear whether communities have the capacity, tools, and targets in place to trigger the transformative levels of change required to build fundamentally low-carbon, resilient, healthy communities. Evidence increasingly supports the finding that this transformation is not triggered by climate policy alone, but rather is shaped by a broad array of decisions and practices that are rooted in underlying patterns of development. Even so, these findings have rarely penetrated the domain of practice, which often remains squarely focused on a relatively narrow set of climate-specific policies. This article builds a conceptual framework for understanding the dynamics of community-level development path transformations that may both dramatically reduce GHG emissions and significantly enhance community resilience. This framework illuminates eight critical enablers of innovation on climate change, each of which is illustrated by compelling examples of community-level experimentation on climate change across the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is concluded that community-based climate (or sustainability) policy might be more likely to trigger development path shifts if it employs a longer time horizon, recognition of adaptability and feedbacks, integrated decision making, and systems thinking.
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2022Shepherd, NickWalking as Embodied Research: Coloniality, Climate Change, and the ‘Arts of Noticing’Science, Technology and Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0971721822110241658-67281‘Walking is the speed for noticing….’ In 2014, I began convening walking seminars together with the researcher Christian Ernsten and the documentary photographer Dirk-Jan Visser. Each seminar involves a mix of scholars, artists, curators and activists and results in various work: journal articles, musical scores, photographic essays, and creative non-fiction. This chapter sets out the thinking behind the walking seminars, drawing on a variety of sources: recent interventions in the environmental humanities, decolonial thinking and practice, arts-based research methods and ideas around embodied research and the senses. Not least, it draws on the long history of writing about walking as a way through which to engage the world and intervene in social scenarios. As we enter the ambiguous new epoch of the Anthropocene, and as familiar landscapes change and degrade, we need—more than ever—to pay attention, to notice, to take care. For scholars, this arguably involves leaving the ‘white cube’ of the seminar room for more materially involved and implicated forms of engagement with our research subjects. The humble, everyday act of walking offers one route towards such modes of engagement.
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2020Szeman, ImreArt, Activism, and the Politics of PipelinesBarricading the Ice Sheets: Artists and Climate Action in the Age of Irreversible Decision by Oliver Ressler
https://www.academia.edu/44337610/Art_Activism_and_the_Politics_of_Pipelines
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2020Meyer, Kris De | Coren, Emily | McCaffrey, Mark | Slean, CherylTransforming the stories we tell about climate change: from 'issue' to 'action'Environmental Research Lettershttps://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abcd5a1-13161By some counts, up to 98% of environmental news stories are negative in nature. Implicit in this number is the conventional wisdom among many communicators that increasing people’s understanding, awareness, concern or even fear of climate change are necessary precursors for action and behavior change. In this article we review scientific theories of mind and brain that explain why this conventional view is flawed. In real life, the relationship between beliefs and behavior often goes in the opposite direction: our actions change our beliefs, awareness and concerns through a process of self-justification and self-persuasion. As one action leads to another, this process of self-persuasion can go hand in hand with a deepening engagement and the development of agency—knowing how to act. One important source of agency is learning from the actions of others. We therefore propose an approach to climate communication and storytelling that builds people’s agency for climate action by providing a wide variety of stories of people taking positive action on climate change. Applied at scale, this will shift the conceptualization of climate change from ‘issue-based’ to ‘action-based’. It will also expand the current dominant meanings of ‘climate action’ (i.e. ‘consumer action’ and ‘activism’) to incorporate all relevant practices people engage in as members of a community, as professionals and as citizens. We close by proposing a systematic approach to get more reference material for action-based stories from science, technology and society to the communities of storytellers—learning from health communication and technologies developed for COVID-19.
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2017Athayde, Simone | Silva-Lugo, Jose | Schmink, Marianne | Kaiabi, Aturi | Heckenberger, MichaelReconnecting art and science for sustainability: learning from indigenous knowledge through participatory action-research in the AmazonEcology and Societyhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/2627011736-48222Sustainability science focuses on generating and applying knowledge to environmentally sound human development around the world. It requires working toward greater integration of different types of knowledge, ways of knowing, and between academy and society. We contribute to the development of approaches for learning from indigenous knowledge, through enhanced understanding of the system of values, meanings, and relationships afforded by indigenous arts. We focus on a long-term, participatory action research project developed for the revitalization of weaving knowledge among three Kawaiwete (also known as Kaiabi) indigenous groups in the Amazon. The problem was originally defined by indigenous communities, concerned with the erosion of weaving knowledge of basketry and textiles among men and women. Methods for coproduction of knowledge included dialogical methods and tools, indigenous-led strategies, and quantitative and qualitative approaches across biophysical and social sciences. Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies considered multiple dimensions, scales, and networks of knowledge creation, distribution, and transmission. Innovation and articulation with western systems, along with shamanism, gender, and leadership, were key factors enhancing artistic knowledge resilience. We reflect on lessons learned and implications of this initiative for broadening the understanding of art and science intersections toward a sustainable future.
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2016Rathwell, Kaitlyn J. | Armitage, DerekArt and artistic processes bridge knowledge systems about social-ecological change: An empirical examination with Inuit artists from Nunavut, CanadaEcology and Societyhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/2627037621-35212The role of art and artistic processes is one fruitful yet underexplored area of social-ecological resilience. Art and art making can nurture Indigenous knowledge and at the same time bridge knowledge across generations and cultures (e.g., Inuit and scientific). Experiences in two Inuit communities in northern Canada (Cape Dorset and Pangnirtung, Nunavut) provide the context in which we empirically examine the mechanisms through which art and art making may bridge knowledge systems about socialecological change. Art making and artworks create continuity between generations via symbols and skill development (e.g., seal skin stretching for a modern artistic mural) and by creating mobile and adaptive boundary objects that function as a shared reference point to connect different social worlds. Our results indicate how art and artistic processes may bridge knowledge systems through six mechanisms, and in so doing contribute to social-ecological resilience during change and uncertainty. These mechanisms are (1) embedding knowledge, practice and belief into art objects; (2) sharing knowledge using the language of art; (3) sharing of art making skills; (4) art as a contributor to monitori
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2019Loveless, NathalieHow to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation176Duke University PressIn recent years, the rise of research-creation—a scholarly activity that considers art practices as research methods in their own right—has emerged from the organic convergences of the arts and interdisciplinary humanities, and it has been fostered by universities wishing to enhance their public profiles. In How to Make Art at the End of the World Natalie Loveless draws on diverse perspectives—from feminist science studies to psychoanalytic theory, as well as her own experience advising undergraduate and graduate students—to argue for research-creation as both a means to produce innovative scholarship and a way to transform pedagogy and research within the contemporary neoliberal university. Championing experimental, artistically driven methods of teaching, researching, and publication, research-creation works to render daily life in the academy more pedagogically, politically, and affectively sustainable, as well as more responsive to issues of social and ecological justice.
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2012Wallace, Kimberly JeanClimate change from the inside out : cultivating a perspective of belonginghttps://viurrspace.ca/handle/10613/5504207Master's thesis
Royal Roads University		Environmental issues, such as climate change, may be exacerbated by humans’ habitual reactions to stress and discomfort. This thesis describes how a practice of mindfulness, an illumination of held assumptions and beliefs, and a cultivation of beliefs of belonging, can influence our responses and positively affect relationships with self and others – human and other-than-human. Three areas of study in this research include: (a) the history of several dominant assumptions in Western culture; (b) the practice of mindfulness; and (c) neuroscience. Using an integrated methodology, I drew from hermeneutic phenomenology, and organic and intuitive inquiries to conduct a personal and a co-operative inquiry with a small group of adults. Several methods of inquiry include a practice of mindfulness; journaling; and other arts-based practices. My findings suggest that mindful meditation is a helpful, often over-looked, tool that can assist us to work toward healthy ecosystems from the inside out.
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2018Juárez-Bourke, SadhbhPerformative Methods for Climate Change Communication in Academic Settings: Case Study of the Freiburg Scientific TheatreHandbook of Climate Change Communication: Vol. 3: Case Studies in Climate Change Communicationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70479-1_9145-159SpringerOne of the main challenges for communicating climate change is to convey information so that it translates from a merely cognitive exercise to behavioural change and effective action. Recent studies point to the need to better address emotions, norms, values and trust in order to trigger behavioural change. This article explores the potential of performative methods to address this challenge, by documenting the author’s experience as part of a theatre group formed by young sustainability researchers and practitioners. Taking an autoethnographic approach, I first describe the method developed by the group for co-creating plays and performing them at academic conferences. Then, drawing on insights from arts-based research, I identify six performative functions of this communication format: providing access to different ways of knowing and doing, integrating and articulating complexity, humanising discourses, creating a platform for deliberation and promoting self-reflexivity and social learning. Based on the autoethnographic analysis, I argue that performative methods can be a potent tool for science communication to produce knowledge that is transformative. However, bridging the arts and sciences is a time-consuming process, which requires us as academics to engage in the process of questioning our own values and belief systems.
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2013Adger, Neil W. | Barnett, Jon | Brown, Katrina | Marshall, Nadine | O'Brien, Karen Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptationNature Climate Changehttps://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate1666112-1173Society's response to every dimension of global climate change is mediated by culture. We analyse new research across the social sciences to show that climate change threatens cultural dimensions of lives and livelihoods that include the material and lived aspects of culture, identity, community cohesion and sense of place. We find, furthermore, that there are important cultural dimensions to how societies respond and adapt to climate-related risks. We demonstrate how culture mediates changes in the environment and changes in societies, and we elucidate shortcomings in contemporary adaptation policy.
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2013Whitmarsh, Lorraine | O’Neill, Saffron | Lorenzoni, IrenePublic engagement with climate change: What do we know and where do we go from here?International Journal of Media & Cultural Politicshttps://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/macp.9.1.7_17-2591Climate change is an issue with fundamental implications for societies and individuals. These implications range from our everyday choices about resource use and lifestyles, through how we adjust to an unprecedented rate of environmental change, to our role in debating and enacting accompanying social transitions. This article outlines the various ways in which members of society (‘publics’) may be engaged in efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and then provides a synthesis of lessons about public engagement which span both theoretical and practical insights. These include the diverse drivers of, and barriers to, engagement; the importance of multiple forms of engagement and messages; and a critical need to evaluate and identify successful examples of engagement. We conclude by outlining priorities for future research, policy and practice.
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2013Schweizer, Sarah | Davis, Shawn | Thompson, Jessica LeighChanging the Conversation about Climate Change: A Theoretical Framework for Place-Based Climate Change EngagementEnvironmental Communicationhttps://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2012.75363442-6471In this paper we present and test a theoretical framework for place-based climate change engagement. The framework is based on principles from place attachment theory, place-based education, free-choice learning, and norm activation theory. The framework, which we empirically validate here, demonstrates the power of engaging citizens in action-based learning at physical, material places, which are also symbolic sites for inspiring political action and learning about climate change impacts. Research has shown that climate change will resonate with diverse audiences when: (1) it is situated in cultural values and beliefs, (2) it is meaningful to that audience, and (3) it empowers specific action. We use data collected at 16 national parks and wildlife refuges in the USA; all of which are experiencing the impacts of climate change and struggling to develop climate change communication and outreach activities for their visitors and local communities. Thus, this framework and the empirical validation presented are the result of triangulating quantitative survey data (n = 4,181) and qualitative interviews (n = 359) to argue for the unparalleled potential for America's parks and refuges to inspire civic engagement in climate change through place-based communication.
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2020Trott, Carlie D. | Even, Trevor L. | Frame, Susan M.Merging the arts and sciences for collaborative sustainability action: a methodological frameworkSustainability Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00798-71067-1085154This manuscript explores the possibilities and challenges of art–science integration in facilitating collaborative sustainability action in local settings. To date, much sustainability education is prescriptive, rather than participatory, and most integrated art–science programming aims for content learning, rather than societal change. What this means is that learners are more often taught “what is” than invited to imagine “what if?” In order to envision and enact sustainable alternatives, there is a need for methods that allow community members, especially young people, to critically engage with the present, imagine a better future, and collaboratively act for sustainability today. This manuscript introduces a methodological framework that integrates the arts and sciences to facilitate: (1) transdisciplinary learning, focusing on local sustainability challenges; (2) participatory process, bringing experience-based knowledge into conversation with research-based knowledge; and (3) collaborative sustainability action, inviting community members to envision and enact sustainable alternatives where they live. The transformative potential of this framework is examined through international case studies from countries representing the richest and poorest in the Western hemisphere: a multi-site research study and after-school program for climate change education and action in collaboration with children in the Western US; and a multi-cycle research study and community arts center course for environmental photography and youth-led water advocacy in Southern Haiti. Despite many shared characteristics, case studies diverge in important ways relative to the sustainability challenges they sought to address, the specific context in which activities took place, and the manner in which art–science integration was practiced. Across cases, however, art–science integration facilitated participants’ learning, connection, and action for sustainability. Framed by the shared aims of transdisciplinary approaches, this manuscript discusses methodological hurdles and practical lessons learned in art–science integration across settings as well as the transformative capacity of alternative pedagogical and research practices in building a sustainable future.
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2022Bentz, Julia | do Carmo, Letícia | Schafenacker, Nicole | Schirok, Jörn | Corso, Sara DalCreative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformationsSustainability Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01000-2687-699172This paper argues for an integrative approach to sustainability transformations, one that reconnects body and mind, that fuses art and science and that integrates diverse forms of knowledge in an open, collaborative and creative way. It responds to scholarship emphasizing the importance of connecting disparate ways of knowing, including scientific, artistic, embodied and local knowledges to better understand environmental change and to foster community resilience and engagement. This paper draws on the experience of an arts-based project in Lisbon, Portugal, and explores embodied and performative practices and their potential for climate change transformations. It puts forward and enlivens an example, where such forms of engaging communities can provide new insight into how equitable, just and sustainable transformations can come about. The process involved a series of interactive workshops with diverse arts-based methods and embodied practices to create performative material. From this process, a space emerged for the creation of meaning about climate change. Three key elements stood out in this process as being potentially important for the emergence of meaning-making and for understanding the impact of the project: the use of metaphors, embedding the project locally, and the use of creative, embodied practices. This furthers research, suggesting that the arts can play a critical role in engaging people with new perspectives on climate change and sustainability issues by offering opportunities for critical reflection and providing spaces for creative imagination and experimentation. Such processes may be important for contributing to the changes needed to realize transformations to sustainability.
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2021Heras, María | Galafassi, Diego | Oteros-Rozas, Elisa | Ravera, Federica | Berraquero-Díaz, Luis | Ruiz-Mallén, IsabelRealising potentials for arts-based sustainability scienceSustainability Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01002-01875-1889166In recent years, a profusion of methods, practices, and experiences has emerged in the interface between arts and sustainability science. Drawing from two strong currents within sustainability science, namely, the emphasis on transdisciplinary approaches and the need to move towards societal transformations, such hybrid approaches seemingly contribute with unique methods to sustainability research. Despite repeated claims from sustainability scientists about art’s role in sustainability transformations, joint analyses with artists and practitioners are still rare. We conveyed a collaborative and exploratory workshop with scientists, artists, and practitioners from the fields of education, public engagement, and activism to identify the potentials for arts-based sustainability research. Participants were invited to facilitate and trial various artistic practices from disciplines of performative, literary, narrative, audio-visual and plastic arts. In this paper, we present five key areas identified in the workshop, where arts-based methods can significantly contribute to sustainability research: embracing more-than-cognitive aspects of knowledge, improving communication, grappling with power dynamics, shifting relationships to nature, and facilitating futures visioning. Workshop participants also identified challenges related to power dynamics, tensions across paradigms, and implementation conditions, providing insights into how to leverage arts’ potential to respond to global environmental challenges while boosting societal transformations. We then discuss research questions identified that address challenges and limitations for arts-based research in sustainability. Overall, these results suggest there are yet untapped resources and experiences within the field of arts-based sustainability science. (Audio-visual abstract available on S1)
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2009O'Neill, Saffron | Sophie Nicholson-Cole“Fear Won't Do It”: Promoting Positive Engagement With Climate Change Through Visual and Iconic RepresentationsScience Communication https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1075547008329201303Fear-inducing representations of climate change are widely employed in the public domain. However, there is a lack of clarity in the literature about the impacts that fearful messages in climate change communications have on people's senses of engagement with the issue and associated implications for public engagement strategies. Some literature suggests that using fearful representations of climate change may be counterproductive. The authors explore this assertion in the context of two empirical studies that investigated the role of visual, and iconic, representations of climate change for public engagement respectively. Results demonstrate that although such representations have much potential for attracting people's attention to climate change, fear is generally an ineffective tool for motivating genuine personal engagement. Nonthreatening imagery and icons that link to individuals' everyday emotions and concerns in the context of this macro-environmental issue tend to be the most engaging. Recommendations for constructively engaging individuals with climate change are given.
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2020Bentz, JuliaLearning about climate change in, with and through artClimatic Change
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02804-4
1595-1612162Effective strategies to learn about and engage with climate change play an important role in addressing this challenge. There is a growing recognition that education needs to change in order to address climate change, yet the question remains “how?” How does one engage young people with a topic that is perceived as abstract, distant, and complex, and which at the same time is contributing to growing feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and anxiety among them? In this paper, I argue that although the important contributions that the arts and humanities can make to this challenge are widely discussed, they remain an untapped or underutilized potential. I then present a novel framework and demonstrate its use in schools. Findings from a high school in Portugal point to the central place that art can play in climate change education and engagement more general, with avenues for greater depth of learning and transformative potential. The paper provides guidance for involvement in, with, and through art and makes suggestions to create links between disciplines to support meaning-making, create new images, and metaphors and bring in a wider solution space for climate change. Going beyond the stereotypes of art as communication and mainstream climate change education, it offers teachers, facilitators, and researchers a wider portfolio for climate change engagement that makes use of the multiple potentials of the arts.
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