Creative Climates Leicester

This pilot project was kindly funded by the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies .  The project allowed us to: Invite a number of local arts organisations to discuss a future project "Creative Climates: Creatively Communicating the Environmental Crisis", which will commission art in a variety of forms, based on local environmental research, and run a social science audiences response project alongside. This will look at ways for the arts better to participate in effecgively communicating the environmental crisis to help invoke pro-environmental bevaviour. Create this blogsite as a home for the future project. Invite artist Lucy Stevens and spoken-word artist John Berkavitch to join the meeting, and then freely choose how they wished to interpret the project’s themes. Lucy picked a current scientific investigation into Leicester air pollution. John responded by thinking more generally about our current predicament.   The art is currently being exhibited in the ground floor...