Resources

Free open-access book of encounters between artists, scientists and theorists on the Anthropocene. Covers practice, ethics, aesthetics and methodology of art in an age of ecological crisis.

Pioneer art/science organisation founded by David Buckland that has run expeditions to the Arctic with artists and scientists since 2003. Extensive archive of interdisciplinary climate work.

Yale's Programme on Climate Change Communication publishes research on public understanding of and engagement with climate change. Includes the influential Six Americas framework.

A research-backed resource showing which types of climate images are most effective at engaging public audiences. Essential for artists and communicators working on climate.

Browser-based tool for creating interactive charts, maps and stories from data — no coding required. Used widely by journalists and artists to communicate complex data including climate topics.

UK organisation commissioning artists to work with scientists on air quality, climate and environment. Strong model for how art/science commissions can work in practice.

Comprehensive, freely accessible climate data and visualisations covering emissions, temperature, energy, land use and more. Excellent starting point for artists and researchers looking for accessible data with context.

Comprehensive, science-based analysis of the most effective solutions to climate change ranked by impact. Useful for researchers and artists wanting to ground their work in solutions rather than just problems.

UK organisation connecting theatre-makers and climate scientists to create work that engages audiences with climate change. Produces productions, residencies and a rich archive of art/science dialogue.

UKRI's flagship funding programme for climate resilience research (2019-2023), including interdisciplinary and cross-sector projects. UKRI is a key funder for art/science collaboration in the UK, and this site explores some of the past work.

This practical, research-driven guide outlines five simple shifts climate communicators can use to create more effective messages. Download the guide.

UK resource for professional artists covering funding, residencies, opportunities and professional guidance. Includes bursaries for artists at all career stages.

Anthology of essays and poetry by women at the forefront of the climate movement. Brings together scientists, poets, farmers, lawyers and activists. Excellent for interdisciplinary thinking about climate narrative.

International festival and research centre exploring the intersection of art, technology and society. Annual festival includes significant climate and ecological work from artists and scientists worldwide.

In this paper we examine the emergent field of art-science, part of a heterogeneous space of overlapping interdisciplinary practices at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technologies. Art...

Academic text on methodology for practice-based and artistic research. Useful for artists seeking to frame their work within research contexts and for academics collaborating with artists.

Arts Council England's environmental strategy and funding guidance for artists and organisations working with climate themes.

Free, high-quality global surface temperature datasets going back 250 years. Includes gridded data, time series, and ready-made visualisations for download.

Landmark book weaving together Indigenous plant knowledge and Western botany. A model for how scientific and non-scientific ways of knowing can be brought together — deeply influential in art/science thinking.

British Council supports international arts collaboration and creative economy initiatives. Relevant for PCN members seeking to build international art/science partnerships.

Explains that scientific visualization, especially cinematic scientific visualization, is fundamentally a form of science communication.
Artistic Techniques in Visualization: Describes how artistic aesthetics, composition, and movie-making tools are used to create production-quality, data-driven imagery for broad distribution and public outreach.
Interdisciplinary Team Approach: Presents the "Renaissance Team" approach at the Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL), which combines specialists of diverse backgrounds, including artists and scientists, to create high-quality visualizations.

The process of questioning how these images are produced and disseminated are ways to support visual literacy as it moves towards ecoliteracy. A thematic overview of responses by publics who experienced the art installations is included, to highlight the role of creativity and imagination with art in environmental education.

The Climate Psychology Alliance offers frameworks for understanding emotional and psychological dimensions of climate engagement — useful for artists working on climate grief, eco-anxiety and behaviour change.

Closing the Loop examines eight years of the S+T+ARTS Prize and identifies the pathways and conditions through which art-driven and transdisciplinary projects shape the excellence of European research and innovation (R&I). The study demonstrates that S+T+ARTS Prize award-winning projects substantially contribute to the development of EU and national R&I frameworks and offer practical models for implementing responsible research and innovation, transdisciplinarity, and 5-helix collaboration in ways that are culturally grounded, socially responsive, and ecologically aware.

Explores how aesthetic formats, such as storytelling, performance, and artistic installations, can be used to promote transdisciplinary collaborations in sustainability science communication.
Aesthetic Formats and Collaboration: Suggests that aesthetic formats were instrumental in disrupting conventional boundaries and enhancing collaboration across disciplines.
Elements of Transdisciplinarity: Identifies five elements that emerged from experimental collaborations as constituting a 'transdisciplinary moment': acknowledgement of identities, negotiation of vocabularies, disruption of hierarchies, experience of insights, and evident learning.

Europe's free climate data service providing historical and near-real-time climate datasets. Includes temperature, precipitation, sea level, and more at global and regional scale.

You are entering a Critical Zone! The Critical Zone is just a few kilometers thick. It is the only region of the Earth that has been transformed by life over many eons. The digital exhibition Critical Zones is dedicated to the critical situation of this fragile membrane of life.

EGU26 is a key Geosciences conference, and this resource includes links to the many paper that considered novel and interdisiplinary methods for climate communication.

A sensory, sonic, visual experience to reflect on the violence, love and urgency that nature embraces in the here now.

At a time where media and social media monopolies are capturing public imaginaries fuelled by the relentless push of neoliberal capitalism, the raw impulse to (re)generate conscientious new spaces in the sutures between the established and the non-established becomes even more significant and indeed necessary.

This article addresses the call to ‘act now’ in response to climate change, in a context where ‘endthinking’ appears dominant in popular culture and climate activism. Building on literature from Geography and International Relations, I develop an argument against the linear, globalised accounts of a homogenous future present in some of these calls, and argue for a focus on the affective and everyday register, and how people go about making their lives viable.

Suggests that borrowing communication strategies from the arts and humanities, such as creative writing and fictional storytelling, can significantly enhance the success of science communication with general audiences.
Information Deficit Solution: Argues that a simple "information deficit" is not the main obstacle to public understanding of science, and merely providing more information will not necessarily change minds, citing the utility of framing and narrative in engaging nonexperts.
Emotion in Scientific Narrative: Proposes that emotional connections, which are integral to successful art, should be leveraged to create gripping narratives when communicating scientific content to the general public, aiming to make complex topics relatable.

London-based arts organisation at the intersection of art, technology and ecology. Runs residencies, exhibitions and research into ecological and digital futures.

The digital nature challenge aims to investigate methods, practices and techniques for creating new media stories and
experiences, within which mixed media content will be respectfully embedded within natural environments.

Annual global carbon budget data tracking CO2 emissions, land use, and carbon sinks. Data freely available for download. Widely cited in scientific and media contexts.

CLIMARTE is an initiator, an educator and a catalyst for artists and arts organisations to engage in climate-related and socially engaged exhibitions and events. Based in Australia.

EU Horizon Europe funding includes Cluster 2 (Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society) and Cluster 5 (Climate, Energy and Mobility) — both relevant to interdisciplinary climate art/science work.

It is easy to feel overwhelmed and even hopeless amid ongoing ecological, social, political, and economic global crises. We are living the results and priorities of an industrial, extractive, and isolationist way of imagining humankind’s relationship with/in the natural world. In this context, this book is a gift; it prioritizes hope to combat the despair and passivity creeping throughout our communities. It acknowledges how current times call for bold and daring people and actions, communities of accomplices working toward a better future.

Contributors investigate the motivation behind scientifically-embedded contemporary art practices as well as art-based scientific research and engagement that attempt to shape society.

The definitive scientific consensus reports on climate change. The Summary for Policymakers documents are accessible starting points for non-scientists.

UK organisation supporting the arts and creative industries to act on climate and environmental sustainability. Extensive practical resources and guides.

Leverhulme Trust funds exceptional scholarship and research across all disciplines. Research Project Grants support novel, interdisciplinary work and have funded several art/science climate projects.

The More-than-Planet Online Library provides a shared bibliography of unique yet distributed collections, libraries, and archives of publications that recognise the importance of outer space-related art, culture, humanities, and social studies.

Free NASA Earth observation imagery and datasets covering temperature, vegetation, energy, atmosphere and more. Excellent source for artists working with scientific data.

Leading peer-reviewed journal publishing original research across physical, biological and social sciences relevant to human-induced and natural climate change and its impacts.

Examines how teachers use visual learning and higher process thinking, giving students the capacity to integrate concepts for the communication of art/science learning.
Visual Learning Contribution: Proposes that new ideas about the contribution of visual learning and its forms of communication exist at the intersection of the sciences and visual arts.
Images at Interdisciplinary Boundaries: Highlights that art-science interest in visuality suggests that images offer a unique opportunity for learning at interdisciplinary boundaries.

Platform for creating and sharing interactive data visualisations using JavaScript. Large community of climate data visualisers. Good starting point for artists with some coding background.

This chapter will discuss how we might operationalize the reflexivity and perspective-taking necessary for creating a space for artists and scientists to create a culture of dialogue that helps intersect and integrate cognitive processes to support creative conversations that strengthen collective problem-solving. I will close out by sharing a new model for collaboration I have coined Parallel Distributed Collaborations (PDC), which focuses on the ability of teams to rapidly oscillate between thick specialized expertise and cognitive diversity to bolster creative problem-solving.

Deals with the recontextualization of scientific images within multimodal popular science articles, focusing on how visual editing affects the communication of scientific knowledge. Multimodal Procedures: Presents different types of multimodal transcriptive procedures related to recontextualizing and readdressing images in popular science. Evidence Potential of Images: Suggests possible implications for the evidence potential of popular science images, considering how changes in legibility might influence their reception.

Investigates why science communication professionals and institutions incorporate arts-based approaches into their programs, exhibitions, and initiatives.
Describes Key Rationales: Identifies three key rationales for using arts-based methods in science communication: to make science more accessible, to engage a broader diversity of audiences, and to generate new knowledge through art-science collaborations.
Presents Interview Findings: Presents findings from interviews with 18 science communication professionals regarding their recent art-science initiatives.

As climate change progresses, environmental movements become more radical. Environmental social media influencers increasingly support radical environmental measures such as blocking traffic or destroying art on social media. Yet, it is unclear what effects radical environmental influencers on social media have on young adults’ perceptions of environmental polarization within society.

We find an urgency to re-examine the way people understand and picture the environment, from the level of the planet as a conceptual whole.

In our image-saturated culture, sound hits harder than visuals. A host of artists are using immersive light, video and performance installations to tackle our global environmental meltdown, addressing ecological collapse with gut-punching results.

The Spatial Media Research Group operates within the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media, School of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Spatial Media Research Group is active in research and development in the fields of interaction design, multimedia, virtual environments, mobile communication and locative media, adaptive, personalised and intelligent systems, visual communication and visual design, computer‐mediated communication, game studies and social media.

Network of writers, artists and thinkers responding to ecological and civilisational crisis. Publishes books of uncivilised writing and art, and organises gatherings. Influential in environmental arts discourse.

The contributions discuss the mutation of dominant far-right imaginaries; the promise of anti-colonial, postgrowth, ecosocialist, and ecofeminist imaginaries; and the potential for new political means, such as theatre, to expand our imagination and create imaginaries that ‘stick’. The contributions do not offer a single framework for understanding and engaging with the turn to the imagination, but rather provide possible starting points for a diverse, critical and political account of this ‘turn’ and its implications.

Just a fraction of the scientific knowledge produced in laboratories reaches a lay audience. Most of our communication with the public gets lost in translation because of the difficulties that science communication poses to scientists. Among other obstacles, differential exposure to scientific and critical thinking, discrepancies with social narratives, and communication training based in the deficit model add on top of a practice established on avoiding emotionality. In this context, effective communication requires the use of emotions, which are crucial to establishing trust. This commentary provides a rationale for collaboration with graphic design and fine arts to use emotions in science communication and education. It starts by proposing the two-way engagement model as a replacement for the deficit model. Next, it offers a neuroscientific basis for the use of emotions in establishing trust. Finally, it finishes profiling the Convergence Initiative’s efforts to establish bridges across disciplines and communicating science with the public through art.

Lists key things to consider when communicating climate change, such as the role of the communicator, knowing your audience, using people centred approaches and stories, and practicing delivery. While this is a good basic overview of standard communication, the PCN sees great potential in finding even better ways of "breaking through" with audiences.

Explores the relationship between visual intelligence, visual thinking, and the visual communication of scientific research results, linking it to characteristics of artistic communication.
Third Space Concept: Proposes a "third space" where common languages and competencies exist between scientific and artistic communication, overcoming the traditional divide.
Artistic Competencies Role: Analyzes case studies (graphical abstract, augmented reality, audiovisual documentation) to highlight the fundamental role of visual thinking and artistic competencies in the formation of a scientist and a researcher.

Explore how artists respond to the seasons and our changing environment through artworks

Wellcome funds public engagement with science including projects that use creative and artistic approaches. Health-climate intersections are a growing funding priority.