Designing for Transformative Futures: Creative Practice, Social Change and Climate Emergency
We discuss three cases of transformative creative practice that aim to address large-scale societal issues related to the climate emergency by taking a series of interconnected, small-scale actions. Drawing on our first-hand perspectives, we reflect on how the cases address such issues by proliferating across different social contexts and supporting creative engagements of diverse stakeholders. We offer this empirical reflection at a time of rapid social and ecological change that has affected all life on the planet. Eco-social challenges and structural inequalities caused by shifts in global economic, political and technological power require new approaches and transformative actions to stabilize and restore ecosystems on which life depends. Our research shows that creative practice in art and design has a critical role to play in these processes of transformation. By discussing the opportunities and challenges encountered by our three cases within their transformative efforts and analyzing how they proliferate across diverse scales, we aim to expand the emerging scholarship on the transformative potential of creative practice.
History
Refereed
- Yes
Number of pages
9External DOI
Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERYConference proceeding
C&C'21: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH CONFERENCE ON CREATIVITY AND COGNITIONName of event
13th Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C)Location
ELECTR NETWORKEvent start date
2021-06-22Event finish date
2021-06-23File version
- Published version
Affiliated with
- Faculty of Science & Engineering Outputs