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An online space & network for artists, researchers & curators exploring creative responses to the planetary climate & nature emergency: blog, Creative Showcase, Longer essays & other features. Creative conversations for the Anthropocene. Created 2017.
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · May 29
Created in 2017 & now with 250+ members, we've built an 8-year, free archive of original content from our members for all to explore - see our blog, Creative Showcase & Longer essays for new content too.
ClimateCultures & more | Mark Goldthorpe | Substack
The climate/nature emergency is a failure of imagination. Through my ClimateCultures platform, I'm working with creative minds to engage our imaginations. 'ClimateCultures & more' will share examples,...
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 2d
In our latest post, researcher & writer Denise Baden discusses the challenges of thrutopian fiction -- writing stories to entertain, raise awareness of effective climate action & inspire sustainable behaviours -- and her latest thrutopian novel, 'The Philosopher and the Assassin'.
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Finding the Tipping Points with Thrutopian Fiction - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Denise Baden discusses the challenges of thrutopian fiction and her latest response with the novel The Philosopher and the Assassin.
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 17d
"I came to the topic with interests in the climate crisis but even that larger horizon seemed too big & baggy & not respectful enough of the specific & extraordinary ways New Orleans’s geography & population were exposed to environmental harms quite literally engineered by human beings."
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 17d
Our new post: Dr Anna Hartnell marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina to highlight the human causes (“There is no such thing as a natural disaster”) while questioning ‘Anthropocene’ labellings of human nature as hard-wired for destruction.

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Hurricane Katrina and the Human - No 'Natural Disaster'? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Researcher Ann Hartnell marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, highlighting that “There is no such thing as a natural disaster”
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 21d
The latest Substack post from ClimateCultures editor Mark Goldthorpe: ‘In other words: Art, maps and language for woodland connection’.

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(Links to our latest ClimateCultures post by Mary Waltham and posts by Jo Dacombe)
In other words
Art, maps and language for woodland connection
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 21d
"... if the borders of our imagination become fixed, restrictive, we risk becoming semi-detached from reality. Locked into one way of seeing the world and our relationship to it.”
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 21d
"... How we use our mapping and wording helps us to order how we work with our imagination and its borders. Borders are porous, can be creative in their own right, but can easily become fossilised instead; ...
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · 21d
“Our maps (mental or actual) and our language are two ways in which, even as we describe and value the natural world of which we are a part, we almost inadvertently ‘other’ it, set it apart in some way. ...
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Art, maps and language for woodland connection
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Sep 8
"Natural England has an inventory of all 52,000 ancient woodland sites across the UK as an online map.4 Looking at the whole map it is clear that many, even most, of the sites are small, fragmented pockets."
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Sep 8
"We have used traditional media of paint, fine-art printmaking & photography, but with a twist. Paintings made with soil & new ways to discover trees are among the interpretations. A gentle woodland soundscape accompanies visitors; we wanted people to have an immersive experience in the gallery.
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Sep 8
New on the ClimateCultures blog: Mary Waltham introduces her and fellow artist Jackie Amies’ joint exhibition on their local ancient woodland. Their art invites our curiosity about these rare, ecologically rich areas, which have been largely untouched by human activity since before 1600.
Ancient Woodland - A Celebration of Place - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Mary Waltham introduces a joint exhibition on local ancient woodland, inviting our curiosity about these rare, ecologically rich areas.
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Sep 3
This series of chapbooks arose from informal gatherings organised by Rapid Transition Alliance, introduced to ClimateCultures by Hope Tales team member Nicky Saunter.

Gathering in hope: Imagination for stuck times.

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Gathering in hope
Imagination for stuck times
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Sep 3
The latest 'ClimateCultures & more' post on Substack, looks at the sense of agency that hope brings - in contrast with being overwhelmed by the climate and nature emergency or complacent from blind techno-optimism that ‘progress’ inevitably cures its own problems - through the lens of Hope Tales.
Gathering in hope
Imagination for stuck times
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Aug 25
"... like deep mapping, these two works (and others that flow from the same mentalité) help us to resist the toxic culture of possessive individualism and the culture industry that serves it."
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Aug 25
"I see the two books as trans-Atlantic cousins ... Both celebrate a particular place in depth, and both were largely created by women whose work presupposes a poetic imagination. ‘Largely’, because both books are the product of active collaborations. ...
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Aug 25
"That changed when I came across Eavan Boland’s 'A Poet’s Dublin', edited by Paula Meehan and Jody Allen Randolph, an unusual combination of poetry, photographs and a conversation. ...
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Aug 25
"Until quite recently I always referred to Ursula K Le Guin’s 'Always Coming Home' as the best fictional narrative flowing from the same mentalité as the deep mappings that most interest me.
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Aug 25
& Longer essay, ‘Wild’ Deep Mapping (after Gary Snyder) explores an approach that offers many possible modes of address to place, where practitioners follow their particular, informed and sensitive intuitions about the complexity and relationality of place in time. (Link to the essay via the post)
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Aug 25
New on ClimateCultures: Excited to share 2 new pieces from artist & researcher Iain Biggs.

In short read, Between ‘The Valley’ and Dublin: ‘Narrative’ Deep Mappings? he introduces 2 fictional-poetic explorations of places that are never static, always in process.

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Between 'The Valley' and Dublin: ‘Narrative’ Deep Mappings? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Iain Biggs introduces two works that offer 'narrative deep mappings' as explorations of places that are never static, always in process.
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Aug 22
Which points to the problem with industrial imagination - exemplified in Marc Andresson’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto and its grand visions of the 'techno-capital machine' as "the engine of perpetual abundance"...
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Aug 22
Our latest Substack picks up on a recent item about the atmospheric impact (literally) of the great satellite acceleration of the last decade, which now builds in the deliberate 'phase out' of redundant machinery by burning up by re-entry. ...

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De-orbiting our sense of self-importance
The problem with industrial imagination
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Aug 11
New on our blog: Citizen artist Yky challenges fellow artists to consider their roles & responsibilities, alongside those of scientific experts, in how their art engages audiences & other citizens to overcome linear thinking in questions of urban resilience & social complexity.

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When Mr Jones ... On the Artist, Responsibility & Linear Thinking - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Yky challenges fellow artists to consider how their art engages audiences in overcoming linear thinking in climate resilience and complexity.
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Aug 6
In the latest Substack post for ClimateCultures&more, 'Here be dragons', ClimateCultures editor Mark Goldthorpe takes a lead from artist & researcher Iain Biggs and his recent thoughts on Ursula le Guin and the value of imagination.

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Here be dragons
The benefits of reading fictional worlds
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Jul 28
New on the ClimateCultures Blog:

Writer Rod Raglin asks if Thrutopian fiction's solutions-focused approaches to climate predicaments address the real challenges. How to overcome our reluctance to make the sacrifices needed to get through the hardest times towards a better future?

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Thrutopian Fictions: Ways to a Better Future? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Rod Raglin asks if Thrutopian fiction's approaches to our climate predicaments address the real challenges to a better future.
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Jul 14
"Nothing can tell us how long until harvest. We need to water these seeds with faith (by which I mean the fertile mix of trust and confidence), and a selective choice of positive actions (with a sprinkle of learnings)."
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ClimateCultures.net @climateculturesetc.bsky.social · Jul 14
"It takes time for seeds to germinate. The seeds of our imagination don’t come in packets that explain when or where to sow and how long they’ll take to flower... The seeds of our imagination need various soils and weather conditions to nourish them. Our intuition knows these conditions. ...
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