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CreaTures

Creative practices are underused in the urgent task of changing cultures towards sustainability. CreaTures – Creative Practices for Transformational Futures is EU Horizon 2020 research project investigating the potential of creative practices in art, design, and related cultural fields to support positive eco-social change (a term that is used to…

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Christophe Sawadogo

Interview The Driving Force Behind My Work? I see art as being at the heart of society. My gallery in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, is called ‘Maan Neere’. In my language (Moore) it means ‘to do beautiful/good’ but it has a double meaning of making something aesthetically appealing that also morally…

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Catherine Sarah Young

Interview The Driving Force Behind My Work? The years ahead of us are years of repair for the catastrophes that we have wrought, from fossil fuel emissions that lead to the climate emergency, to habitat destruction that lead to disease, to rising inequality worldwide that lead to social unrest. I…

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Patricio Robles Gil

Interview The Driving Force Behind My Work? In the early nineties, I founded two conservation groups that engage in public awareness through publications, an exhibition, we engage in the support of research and conservation of emblematic species like jaguars, quetzals, pronghorns, whales and many more, and we manage to secure…

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Sarah Smuts-Kennedy

Interview with Sarah Smuts-Kennedy Could You Briefly Explain The Driving Force/Motivation Behind Your Work? I am interested in systems thinking that encourages balance in an otherwise unbalanced world. You could call it performing the possibility of healing. More recently I am thinking of my practice as the attempt to co…

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Globaïa

Interview with Félix Pharand-Deschênes Could You Briefly Explain The Driving Force/Motivation Behind Your Work? I could write a long origin story. To keep it short though, the driving motivation of my work with Globaïa is to inform and inspire people about global socio-ecological issues through the mighty combination of science…

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Land Art Generator

Interview with Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry Could you briefly explain the driving force/motivation behind your work? Our four primary motivations are to bring forward solutions to address the climate crisis, to help accelerate our transition to a post-carbon economy, to build a catalog of regenerative artworks for different site…

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Mariko Mori

Interview with Moriko Mori Could you briefly explain the driving force/motivation behind your work? My driving force is a never-ending question about the mystery of life, death, and rebirth. One of the concepts behind Tom Na H’iu was rebirth which I was inspired by prehistoric culture. Every time, I searched…

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