Deep Earth Synergies: Art as catalyst for inclusive climate cross-collaboration

We are very happy to be presenting at this year’s Sustainable Earth Forum’s Marketplace Session, which is already next week! Don’t forget to register and discuss with us new, inclusive ways to reach carbon zero and regenerative futures.

Sustainable Earth 2021 offers an exciting full two-day programme with inspiring keynote presentations and many more :

• 5 keynote presentations covering the latest research and response to the climate emergency from academia, not-for-profit organisations, business and industry.
• Over 20 guest speakers sharing the latest insights, research and developments across the forum’s key themes.
• 12 action-oriented workshops providing case studies and sector findings, plus the tools and strategies to take action at all levels.
• 40 marketplace sessions showcasing research, action and initiatives, hosted by researchers, businesses, social enterprises and community groups.
• Documentary screening of 8 BILLION ANGELS, inc. after show Q&A.

Read our abstract here:

The traditional two-dimensional transfer of knowledge does not seem to be the most efficient way of raising climate awareness and triggering pro-environmental behaviour. People rarely act upon data and facts received. The abstract notion of climate on a time-space continuum further separates the dangerously envisioned future scenario from current realities, which makes climate change inaccessible. Research reveals how interrelation aspects between humans and the possibility of ‘sensing’ climate change are necessary triggers for an active participation in the debate and action. The arts and creative processes have the potential to tap those missing gaps and induce knowledge through embodied experience, imagination and intangible communication. To put those actions into motion we need open spaces of interaction, collaboration and exchange. Silo-like approaches in science and the industry make shared exploration and relational encounters difficult. The cross-sectoral arts hub Deep Earth Synergies is thus introducing new, inclusive collaboration methods between those entities through the arts. The cross-sectoral interaction congruently reveals the cross-sectoral dependency in regards to resources, science, society and climate. Each step has a consequence for the other sectors. The presentation will draw upon the arts as an effective enabler of those spaces, generating new forms of ‘knowledge’ that draw upon nexus thinking approaches. The arts as a conduit for society provokes connectivity to earth and innovation and might effectively spark collectively envisioned desirable futures.