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The Hub

Connecting creativity to social change

If we're going to move the arts' response to climate change forward we need to create inclusive environments, to exchange ideas and avoid duplicating our work unnecessarily. With that in mind, welcome to the RSA Arts and Ecology Centre Hub.

This is a place where artists, academics, campaigners and organisations working on responses to climate change can connect, share resources and information, and find new ways to work together.

The network's strength relies on the people who join it. If you haven't subscribed to our monthly newsletter, please do - put your email address in the box to the left of this page. If you haven't taken a look or left your thoughts on the blog, please do.

If you're an organisation working in the field of arts, science or ecology, and you want to have your information listed in The Hub, email here. If you are running a course which you feel might be of interested to visitors to The Hub, email here. Are you issuing a call for submissions for proposed artworks or for a conference? Are you running an event which you think should be listed in the calendar? If you're an artist whose work responds to the envionment agenda and you want to have your website listed in The Hub, email here.

Opportunities

Call for papers | Creativity and place

Upcoming conference at the University of Exeter invites papers on the theme of creativity and place. IIssues of creativity and place are currently of compelling significance as fields of scholarly research, sites of artistic practice and areas of public interest.

Residencies | Bengal Eco Art Rally

BEAR offer a multi-disciplinary residency program for UK and Indian artists to conceive and execute new ideas and to work on BEAR projected activities with site-specific responses to the rich natural environment of Sunderbans . The residency program is exclusive to UK based artists

MA in Art & Environment: 2010

University College Falmouth's MA course encourages a focused engagement with ecological and environmental issues.

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Reading List

Wonderful: Visions of the Near Future

This travelling exhibition explored collaborations between artists and scientists. 'Wonderful' investigates science within a broad cultural and philosophical framework, inviting visitors to consider their own attitudes to ethical issues emerging from current developments in technology and scientific research.

Arrested Rivers

Paintings by Chuck Forsman with essays and poems by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Roger C. Echo-Hawk, Gary Holthuas, and Charles Wilkinson.

Fragile Ecologies: Contemporary Artists’ Interpretations and Solutions.

Fragile Ecologies was a travelling exhibition that focused on activist, environmentally oriented art, and the role of artists as agents of change. It brought together material documenting the work of a dozen ecology-minded artists, or artist groups, working in diverse environments and situations.

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Latest Blog Posts

Furtherfield.org: The Zero Dollar Laptop
Nice to see Bruce Sterling picking up on the excellent media arts collective furtherfield.org’s Zero Dollar Laptop project. Working with clients from St Mungo’s homeless charity, they’re helping people break up old laptops and build new ones, adding free opensource software to help them build new computers for themselves entirely free of charge. It’s a great project. [...]

On houses that fall into the sea
Earlier this week the papers were full of stories of Ridgemont House in Devon – a house bought for �150,000 by auction, only to see its garden plummet down towards Oddicombe Beach. The story brought together the national obsession with house prices with the fact of increasing coastal erosion due to climate change.�Artist�Kane Cunningham is jealous [...]

Pothole gardens; opportunity from decay
This via Thriving Too: “An ongoing series of public installations highlighting the problem of surface imperfections on Britain’s roads by�Pete Dungey, a�Graphic Design student at the University of Brighton.” On Dungey’s web page the photos are accompanied by the quote: �”If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the [...]