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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We welcome photographic artist & researcher Aindreas Scholz to our Creative Showcase: snapshots of new work from our members. In And So I Watch You From Afar he discusses his photographic installation, where cyanotype photography is both image & material event. climatecultures.net/portfolio/an...

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And So I Watch You From Afar - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Aindreas Scholz discusses And So I Watch You From Afar, part of ongoing research into photography's material footprint.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ClimateCultures welcomes composer and performer Camilla Cancantata to our blog. In Cockroach Cabaret — Learning to Make Friends With Arthropods, her alter ego questions the role of humanity on planet Earth, asking if we can pull ourselves back from the brink of apocalypse. wp.me/p8dsAT-5Gb

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Cockroach Cabaret - Learning to Make Friends With Arthropods - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Camilla Cancantata considers the nonhuman voice in Cockroach Cabaret, questioning the role of humanity on planet Earth.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New from ClimateCultures: artist Michael Gresalfi shares new artworks using leaves, seeds and other natural materials to produce zoomorphic or anthropomorphic masks and sculptures that echo our early ancestors and an approach to the world that recognises we are all related. wp.me/p8dsAT-5Fg

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Flora-Persona: "We are all related" - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Michael Gresalfi uses natural materials to produce zoomorphic masks and sculptures that echo early ancestors in showing "We are all related".

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our latest ClimateCultures post: artist & practical activist, Nicky Saunter remembers weekly acts of creative solidarity during Covid-19 lockdowns & since: plague poems for plague times remind us writing may be a solitary pleasure but sharing is an act of magic. climatecultures.net/creative-wor...

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One Poem a Week: Plague Poems Six Years On - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Nicky Saunter remembers weekly acts of creative solidarity during the Covid-19 lockdowns: plague poems for plague times.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Delighted to share our latest ClimateCultures blog post! writer David Guenette shares creative insights into his literary climate fiction series, The Steep Climes Quartet, a longitudinal study into climate futures unfolding across an American county. wp.me/p8dsAT-5Dq

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The Steep Climes Quartet: My Take on Climate Fiction - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

David Guenette shares creative insights into his Steep Climes Quartet novels, a longitudinal study into climate futures.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm excited to share ecopoet Dr Helen Moore's new post for the ClimateCultures blog. In Beyond Ecosystem Collapse: New Stories to Live By, she discusses the importance of econarratives and ethical leadership for how we interact with each other and the more-than-human. wp.me/p8dsAT-5CE

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Beyond Ecosystem Collapse: New Stories to Live By - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Helen Moore discusses the importance of econarratives and how a new free online programme can help us find the new stories to live by.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'm very happy to share that, in a new contribution to our Creative Showcase, ecopoet Helen Moore introduces her latest collection, The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas - celebrated as confirming her “as the most imaginative and committed ecopoet of our time.” climatecultures.net/portfolio/th...

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The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Helen Moore's poems in The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas show hope we can resist the forces of destruction and seek Thrutopian paths forward

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Our Museum of the Anthropocene shares 5 new objects from @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Human Geography in the Anthropocene students. Dr Martin Mahony suggests that objects that question Anthropocene ironies, contradictions & oversimplifications can help point to a new ethos of care. wp.me/p8dsAT-5BS

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The Age of Irony - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Geographer Martin Mahony introduces objects that point to Anthropocene ironies, contradictions, oversimplifications - and a new ethos of care.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In Standing in Relationship with Land, artist Jennifer Leach offers a ‘case study with no answers’; how (and whether) to engage with issues of right land relationship with resistance but not aggression: pausing, listening, acting with integrity & being at peace with our choices. wp.me/p8dsAT-5AU

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Standing in Relationship with Land - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Jennifer Leach offers creativity for right land relationship, asking us to face our times with honesty, and be at peace with our choices.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

New: as our online Museum of the Anthropocene approaches its 5th year of student entries, UEA's Dr Martin Mahony & GroundWork Gallery's Veronica Sekules discuss the collection through a professional curator's perspective & how it enhances our understanding of our planetary age. wp.me/p8dsAT-5z2

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Our Anthropocene Museum - A Curator Conversation On Our First Four Years - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Martin Mahony and Veronica Sekules discuss our Anthropocene museum through a professional curator's perspective.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I'm delighted to share artist Ife Abhulimen's ClimateCultures post. Dark in Nature – Out of Sight, Out of Mind? explores persistence through her sculpture, holding discarded objects in place long enough to be noticed anew. climatecultures.net/challenges-o...

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Dark in Nature - Out of Sight, Out of Mind? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Ife Abhulimen's sculpture, Dark in Nature, explores persistence and questions our notions of 'waste' and 'away'.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In our latest ClimateCultures post, transdisciplinary artist Sarah Strachan offers a practice-based researcher’s perspective on 'Thinking with the Harrisons: Re-imagining the Arts in the Global Environment Crisis Art' by Anne Douglas and Chris Fremantle. wp.me/p8dsAT-5yW

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Conversational Drift and Artistic Inquiry: Thinking With The Harrisons - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Sarah Strachan offers a practice-based researcher’s perspective on 'Thinking with the Harrisons' and conversational drift as artistic inquiry

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Our new ClimateCultures post: In Hey! Earthlings! A Field Guide to Connecting, artist Andrew Howe shares a collaborative project he created with fellow artists and migrants to bring together creativity, community and heritage. climatecultures.net/cultural-cha...

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Hey! Earthlings! A Field Guide to Connecting - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Andrew Howe shares Hey! Earthlings! a collaborative project using creativity, community and heritage to show we're all connected with nature.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Hot on the heels of our latest blog post on 'Rise and Fall' - the short, award-winning film from poet and artist James Roberts - I'm delighted to announce a new piece for the ClimateCultures Creative Showcase, on the Rivers of Film Festival that commissioned this and nine other short films ...

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

New on the ClimateCultures blog: Artist & writer James Roberts shares 'Rise and Fall', his short, award-winning film-poem, which gives us all space, an invitation to find calm, to experience our local rivers, to find a practice of connection and show reverence. climatecultures.net/in-the-eleme...

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Rise and Fall - A Short Film-Poem About Connection - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

James Roberts shares Rise and Fall, his film-poem & invitation to find calm, experience our local rivers, find a practice of connection.

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Tidelines @tidelines.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

meet the stars of the show.exploring creativity, circular economy, community resilience, local food, water quality, regenerative aquaculture, climate change, 21 march,lympstone with mussels & oysters of the exe www.tidelines.uk/blog/shellfish/ @climateculturesetc.bsky.social @gsiexeter.bsky.social

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

With Earth Month just around the corner and Earth Day on 22nd April, artist Michael Gresalfi's new ClimateCultures post explores the history of protest posters through his own protest painting, “Replenish The Earth”. climatecultures.net/art-activism...

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Protest Posters for the Earth! - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Michael Gresalfi explores protest posters for International Mother Earth Day (22nd April) and "Replenish The Earth", his own protest painting.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Delighted to share a new addition to the ClimateCultures Creative Showcase. Delicate Resilience: Where Nature Refuses to Give Up is artist Ifeoluwa Abhulimen's new sculpture using reclaimed, discarded materials. climatecultures.net/portfolio/de...

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Delicate Resilience: Where Nature Refuses to Give Up - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Artist Ifeoluwa Abhulimen shares Delicate Resilience, her sculpture using eclaimed plastics, discarded textiles, and wire,

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

ClimateCultures is proud to be partnering on a new book: 'On a day like today we just need to look forward…' This is an open call for contributions exploring how we imagine and shape energy futures. Deadline: 9 May 2026 artearthbooks.com/a-day-like-t...

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In our latest ClimateCultures post, Evgenia Emets shares the development of her Eternal Forest sanctuary vision into its latest phase as the Seed of Eternal Forest, with opportunities for artists, scientists & thinkers globally to become a movement & mutually supportive network. wp.me/p8dsAT-5vZ

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Eternal Forest Sanctuary: Vision to Living Commitment - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Evgenia Emets shares the development of her Eternal Forest sanctuary vision and opportunities for artists & scientists to become a movement

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

ClimateCultures marks the end of 2025 with actor & director Giovanni Morassutti's post on a recent CCTA Turin residency, which demonstrates theatre's role as an artistic laboratory where we practise the emotional bravery required to face the climate and nature crisis together. wp.me/p8dsAT-5uA

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CCTA and the Theatre of Necessity: Visceral Responses to Climate Crisis - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

For Giovanni Enrico Morassutti, a recent CCTA residency demonstrates the emotional bravery required to face the climate crisis together.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

New on ClimateCultures: psychotherapist Susan Holliday discovers an intricate world of imaginal possibility in an overlooked detail of a familiar landscape. Turning away from global events for a moment reminds us that change often starts with something small. climatecultures.net/in-the-eleme...

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A Strange Country - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Susan Holliday discovers a strange country in overlooked details of familiar landscapes, that change often starts with something small.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

In our latest ClimateCultures blog post, researcher and writer @julespretty.bsky.social's climb to Bhutan's Taktstang mountain temple reveals a nation's story of hope and regeneration through its common focus on Gross National Happiness. climatecultures.net/cultural-cha...

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Cloud Mountain, Thunder Dragon: Stories of Gross National Happiness - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Jules Pretty's climb to Bhutan's Taktstang mountain temple reveals a nation's story of its focus on Gross National Happiness.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New in our Creative Showcase, artist Hanien Conradie shares her new exhibition. Water-Verse showcases a decade of painting, film & performance with water as both medium & teacher. climatecultures.net/portfolio/wa...

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Water-Verse: Traces of the Traceless - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Hanien Conradie's Water-Verse exhibition showcases ainting, film and performance with water as both medium and teacher.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New on the ClimateCultures blog: Julian Bishop shares 3 new poems written in response to Shakespeare’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream', where dissension between its famous fairy characters plays out in ‘distemperature’ and ruptures in the patterns of nature and the affairs of humans. wp.me/p8dsAT-5re

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'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' of Climate Crisis & Poetic Response - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Julian Bishop responds to A Midsummer Night’s Dream with poems on dissension between its famous fairy characters and its ruptures in nature.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

New in the ClimateCultures Creative Showcase: Writer & researcher Jules Pretty presents 'Story for Climate and Nature Recovery', his YouTube channel featuring short films with stories about people and places and exploring how story can help bring transformation. climatecultures.net/portfolio/st...

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Story for Climate and Nature Recovery - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Jules Pretty's Story for Climate and Nature Recovery YouTube channel offers short films on how story can help bring transformation.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The new Substack from ClimateCultures' Mark Goldthorpe, 'Changing paths through woods and waters', reflects on desire lines in the landscape as ways to reconnect with the more-than-human & our need to expand our failing ‘consciousness contract’. climateculturesandmore.substack.com/p/changing-p...

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Changing paths through woods and waters

Reconnecting our desire lines to the more-than-human

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

New on the ClimateCultures blog, artist Julien Masson's a recent Southampton community collaboration with artists, residents & businesses. They've used recycled garden furniture, instruments & miscellaneous timber found locally to create public art that transforms public spaces. lnkd.in/exKejDvh

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Heritage, Art and Community Collaboration - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Artist Julien Masson shares a community collaboration with artists, residents and businesses, using recycled items and timber.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

New in the ClimateCultures Creative Showcase, artist Michael Gresalfi's 'Drop the Beef': a 1940s cabaret-style saxophone blues combining original lyrics & AI instructions to ask us to consider the environmental impacts of our food production and consumption. climatecultures.net/portfolio/dr...

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'Drop the Beef' - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Michael Gresalfi's blues asks us to consider how our intensive animal farming produces a significant amount of the greenhouse gas methane.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

In our latest post, researcher & writer Denise Baden discusses the challenges of thrutopian fiction -- writing stories to entertain, raise awareness of effective climate action & inspire sustainable behaviours -- and her latest thrutopian novel, 'The Philosopher and the Assassin'. wp.me/p8dsAT-5pG

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Finding the Tipping Points with Thrutopian Fiction - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Denise Baden discusses the challenges of thrutopian fiction and her latest response with the novel The Philosopher and the Assassin.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Our new post: Dr Anna Hartnell marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina to highlight the human causes (“There is no such thing as a natural disaster”) while questioning ‘Anthropocene’ labellings of human nature as hard-wired for destruction. climatecultures.net/endangered-w...

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Hurricane Katrina and the Human - No 'Natural Disaster'? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Researcher Ann Hartnell marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, highlighting that “There is no such thing as a natural disaster”

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

“Our maps (mental or actual) and our language are two ways in which, even as we describe and value the natural world of which we are a part, we almost inadvertently ‘other’ it, set it apart in some way. ...

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Art, maps and language for woodland connection

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

New on the ClimateCultures blog: Mary Waltham introduces her and fellow artist Jackie Amies’ joint exhibition on their local ancient woodland. Their art invites our curiosity about these rare, ecologically rich areas, which have been largely untouched by human activity since before 1600.

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Ancient Woodland - A Celebration of Place - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Mary Waltham introduces a joint exhibition on local ancient woodland, inviting our curiosity about these rare, ecologically rich areas.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The latest 'ClimateCultures & more' post on Substack, looks at the sense of agency that hope brings - in contrast with being overwhelmed by the climate and nature emergency or complacent from blind techno-optimism that ‘progress’ inevitably cures its own problems - through the lens of Hope Tales.

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Gathering in hope

Imagination for stuck times

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

New on ClimateCultures: Excited to share 2 new pieces from artist & researcher Iain Biggs. In short read, Between ‘The Valley’ and Dublin: ‘Narrative’ Deep Mappings? he introduces 2 fictional-poetic explorations of places that are never static, always in process. wp.me/p8dsAT-5mT

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Between 'The Valley' and Dublin: ‘Narrative’ Deep Mappings? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Iain Biggs introduces two works that offer 'narrative deep mappings' as explorations of places that are never static, always in process.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Our latest Substack picks up on a recent item about the atmospheric impact (literally) of the great satellite acceleration of the last decade, which now builds in the deliberate 'phase out' of redundant machinery by burning up by re-entry. ... climateculturesandmore.substack.com/p/de-orbitin...

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De-orbiting our sense of self-importance

The problem with industrial imagination

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

New on our blog: Citizen artist Yky challenges fellow artists to consider their roles & responsibilities, alongside those of scientific experts, in how their art engages audiences & other citizens to overcome linear thinking in questions of urban resilience & social complexity. wp.me/p8dsAT-5lB

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When Mr Jones ... On the Artist, Responsibility & Linear Thinking - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Yky challenges fellow artists to consider how their art engages audiences in overcoming linear thinking in climate resilience and complexity.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

In the latest Substack post for ClimateCultures&more, 'Here be dragons', ClimateCultures editor Mark Goldthorpe takes a lead from artist & researcher Iain Biggs and his recent thoughts on Ursula le Guin and the value of imagination. climateculturesandmore.substack.com/p/here-be-dr...

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Here be dragons

The benefits of reading fictional worlds

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

New on the ClimateCultures Blog: Writer Rod Raglin asks if Thrutopian fiction's solutions-focused approaches to climate predicaments address the real challenges. How to overcome our reluctance to make the sacrifices needed to get through the hardest times towards a better future? wp.me/p8dsAT-5lW

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Thrutopian Fictions: Ways to a Better Future? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Rod Raglin asks if Thrutopian fiction's approaches to our climate predicaments address the real challenges to a better future.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

New on the ClimateCultures blog! Poet & artist-book maker Sarah Hymas looks ahead to the Imaginarium ‘Worlds in Progress’ retreat she is running for a second year: an open, fluid, multi-layered spacetime for writers to sow & care for the seeds of imagination. wp.me/p8dsAT-5li

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Worlds in Progress: a Retreat to Feed the Seeds of Imagination - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Sarah Hymas looks ahead to the 'Worlds in Progress' retreat, a space and time for writers to sow and care for the seeds of imagination.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

New at ClimateCultures, Jennifer Leach & Andrea Carr‘s Earth-arts organisation Outrider Anthems invites us into Bullwoman – a dreaming. Their collaborative Portal Theatre project brings everyday reality into rich contact with deeper worlds, suggesting new myths for our times. wp.me/p8dsAT-5ir

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Bullwoman - Dream Portal - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Jennifer Leach & Andrea Carr's collaborative Portal Theatre project, 'Bullwoman - a dreaming', suggests a new myth for our times.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

New in our Creative Showcase: Sculptor Dan Pooley's Road Gator Fossil blown-out tyre carved in metamorphic marble is an Anthropocene technofossil that may be found in future strata as a reminder of our environmental impact, coastal erosion & life's fragility. climatecultures.net/portfolio/ro...

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Road Gator Fossil - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Dan Pooley's 'Road Gator Fossil' takes the form of a blown-out tyre carved in marble, a technofossil manifestation of the Anthropocene.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

New on the ClimateCultures blog: Martin Mahony, Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of East Anglia, introduces a new selection of student contributions to our online Museum of the Anthropocene. climatecultures.net/learning-in-...

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Anthropocene Naturecultures: Where are the Boundaries? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Martin Mahony introduces student essays asking important questions about the politics of drawing boundaries between ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’.

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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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