March 11th, 2025, 7:00 pm - April 15th, 2025, 11:59 pm CDT
Host: Pratt Institute
The Climate Studio Residency is suited to artists, educators, and community organizers with a demonstrated interest in climate literacy or climate justice, and scientists working in areas related to the climate who seek to bring their ideas and passion for their work to a wider audience. While the exact forms of your public-facing works will be determined by you, the residents, we anticipate they will include the perspectives of grassroots organizations at the frontline of the climate movement; foster community around current NYC climate justice issues; and interactively employ elements of theatre, fashion, visual art, design, placemaking, architecture, and fabrication rooted in the tenets of community engagement. We, at the Climate Studio Initiative, believe that when we talk about the climate, our statements should be rooted in science and facts. Our aesthetics and ethos of public engagement draws heavily from the historic work of Beam Center and is inspired by Guerilla Science.
Preliminary Climate Studio 2025 themes (to be further developed) include:
Health: Healthy Mind + Bodies; Healthy Planet:
* Community health impacts from climate change (Increased risks of pandemics, neighborhood pollution linked to carbon-emitting activities, heating of ocean ecosystems)
* Mental health, wellbeing, and resilience
* Climate Impact on other forms of non-human life.
Infrastructure: Green Jobs, Healthy Buildings, Just Energy Transitions:
* Transportation (Impacts of public transportation linked to increasingly severe weather, relationship between public transportation and emissions reductions)
* Schooling (How climate is taught in schools, greening school infrastructure)
* Equitable Energy Transitions (Electric Buildings, Public Power & Affordable Energy)
Culture and Community: Climate Justice
* Familial connections to countries with deeper climate impacts
* Food + Agricultural systems and cultural practices
* Consumer culture (Fashion, technology, etc.) and intersections with production