What are the opportunities for creative collaborations with citizen-led actions?
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Creative culture and art communities spark innovation, imagination and originality when facing local and global challenges, inspiring with their unique perspectives and creative processes. Citizen observatories can benefit from the involvement of creative minds in their activities since they can facilitate new ideas and unconventional solutions. This will result in dynamic, engaging outcomes and amplified lasting impact that may resonate with more diverse audiences. This section highlights why creatives and artists can be of great help for these processes and will be the introduction to following sections in which we will see how art-related groups and creative practitioners can be part of COs' citizen-led actions.
Connecting and collaborating with local creatives can bring new ideas for how to work towards taking action for a more sustainable future. The arts and creative practices can create emotional connections and inspire people to get involved and take action, making a stronger impact, and broader reach. With this approach, innovative engagement methods can be experimented with to generate new narratives and inspire transformative change and with the help of an artistic perspective.
The resources of this section provide inspiration by showing how others have successfully connected art and creativity to environmental sustainability and awareness.
is a handbook for climate justice developed during a residency in 2022 with Deveron Projects, a socially-engaged arts organisation in Scotland. The guide is designed for young people, climate activists, and educators; the materials can serve as starting points and sources of inspiration for research and practical tools for taking action and educational purposes. It includes a range of resources, including worksheets, activities, comic strips, artworks, manifestos, oral histories, discussions, social media ephemera, and other experiments in engaging with artists for climate justice actions
Provides inspiration for creative ways to address social and environmental issues by the New European Bauhaus Prizes
This methodology describes Creative Carbon Scotland’s approach to supporting collaborations between artists and climate change organisations through the culture/SHIFT programme to harness the role of culture and creativity in tackling the climate emergency
is a practical digital resource that supports individuals and organisations across research, advocacy, governance, and business sectors to effectively engage with artists and demonstrate the potential outcomes of integrating artistic roles into sustainability projects