Pushing for culture-based climate action

This event explored what culture-based climate action means, and what is the potential for artist led projects to catalyse change through advocacy and campaigning. Moderated by Farah Ahmed, Climate Justice Lead of Julie’s Bicycle, the pioneering not-for-profit, mobilising the arts and culture to take action on the climate crisis, kicked off the conversation by introducing a set of suggested practices for designing and implementing culture-based climate action.

She then opened up the conversation to the artists to explore questions through the lens of their respective practices such as: What are our guiding values for culture-based climate action? And what are the challenges along the way and how do we navigate compromises?

Pushing for culture-based climate action is the second of our Constellations ° Assemblies 2024, which are open to all artists, curators, practitioners, commissioners, communities, and those working across public art, social practice and regeneration. It builds on our previous Assembly, Climate Empowerment, that took place in November 2023.

This was the second of our Constellations ° Assemblies 2024, a series of three online events open to all artists, curators, practitioners, commissioners, communities, and those working across public art, social practice and regeneration.

This event is also connected to Bodies of Water, UP Projects’ forthcoming public art commission by German/Korean artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan, and associated community collaboration programme, that explores our human relationship with the natural world, and reflects on our potential to effect positive environmental change.

Online resources were produced as part of the Constellations ° Assemblies programme and are hosted on UP Projects’ Resource Library. These include accessible event recordings with BSL interpretation and captions.

Constellations ° Assemblies 2024 was curated by UP Projects and supported by Arts Council England.