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Biophilic art is based on the understanding that culture is at the heart of people’s identity and creativity is essential for us to adapt and change intrenched habits and behaviour. We believe that both artists and designers have a crucial role to play in the dialogue of climate change adaption and mitigation. Biophlic art can open a collaborative place no matter our background and explore our individual relationships to internal nature and external nature – bringing out a shared vision where art meets science, engineering and social engagement. Biophilic art will create a space to pause, be present and sit with the science of climate and ecological crisis, leading to a series of creative actions.
We believe that both artists and designers have a crucial role to play in the dialogue of climate change adaption and mitigation, this art project will create a space to pause, be present and sit with the science leading to a series of creative actions. We are collaborating with climate change researchers; who are sharing a more personal story about how they came to embody themselves into these subjects to creatively engage a wide audience. The project with explore Biophilia (love of nature), Biomimicry (learning from nature) and as dynamic ways to engage audiences in the art, design and climate crisis dialogue. Based on a new immediacy amongst a growing network of artists, humanities academics and scientists collaborating across disciplines to bring creative, visionary methods to bear on environmental and ecological challenges. We want to base our project in the creativity of civil society and help amplify the environmental voices of communities through stories, narratives and public imagination projects that can lead to new ideas, questions and visions of a sustainable future. To help people engage with their local nature, Biophilia and the science of climate/ecological crisis. Climate science is linked with a creative focused approach to climate change and biodiversity loss stress & trauma. Using a process of co-production and co-creation of stories people work on through digital platforms and traditional analogue ways of engagement.
More about Biophilic art and lead artists Dr Sally Payen & Jaime Jackson