An interdisciplinary approach to using Imagination and Co-creation with communities, each project reflects a collaborative process of emergent knowledge-making, grounded in lived experience and artistic inquiry.

CLIMATE COMMUNICATION

These projects communicate with climate-affected communities, translating local knowledge into artistic forms that speak to broader audiences and policy makers.

Featured Projects:

BluePrint

BluePrint (2024) gave participants a new language for sharing their stories of lived experiences of flooding. Song, performance poetry and an immersive sound installation amplified their voices to be heard in an alternative way by policy makers.

In partnership with University College Cork, The Playhouse Derry, Derry and Strabane District Council, Mayo County Council

Commissioned by Creative Ireland - Climate Action Fund

  • Immersive sound installation reflecting lived experience of two flood-affected communities

  • Performance outputs including choral piece and performance poetry

  • Sonification of historical and projected rainfall data into musical form

  • Dissemination through conferences and academic teaching

  • Research outputs

Themes:

  • Sonification of environmental and research data

  • Storytelling as adaptation and resistance

  • Artistic expression of climate data and lived experience into sound and performance

  • Art-making as bridge between scientists, communities and policy makers

Joseph Gerard Photography