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Theatre and the arts can be vehicles for thinking globally and acting locally, embracing alternative ways of knowing and acknowledging holistic approaches to addressing climate change.
Our new report asks if achieving environmental sustainability should be a key goal for all Australian performing arts companies.
In a bold new play, all of humanity takes a drug to induce a year’s hibernation.
Visual arts and performance have always been central to protest movements - but the unified branding of Extinction Rebellion shows a new approach to activism.
A scientist dips her toe into a new form of group-based performance art: devising new words to describe new feelings and phenomena of a rapidly changing world.
Climate change is such a big problem it’s almost impossible for us to really understand. We need artists to mobilise on a huge scale to render the problem comprehensible.
It is hard for us to visualise the trends and processes of climate change, which are largely hidden. But posters - with their richly subversive history - are the perfect medium for prompting contemplation and action.
Scientists and policy makers are struggling in some countries to gain the support that will lead to meaningful action on climate change. Could art be the answer?
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Research affiliate at climate change & (in)security project, Australian National University
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Scientist and Director of Research Communication for the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer Humanities, Griffith University
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Full Professor/CRC in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, C-SET, University of Regina
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Senior Lecturer in Drama, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
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Lecturer, School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Plant Pathology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
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Visiting Research Fellow, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Research Fellow, Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham