Reaching wider audiences to define and promote new sustainable lifestyles is a major challenge. The arts can emotionally transfer scientific messages complementing or even replacing conventional knowledge valorisation. Culture is increasingly committed to sustainable development. Cultural and creative initiatives may boost Climate action and a just and clean energy transition by establishing a multidisciplinary dialogue between citizens, artists, curators but also experts and researchers. Such an engagement can help energy experts and planners better develop mitigation and adaptation strategies. Cultural and creative organisations (museums, but also libraries and theatres) can contribute carrying out social practices and guaranteeing inclusiveness and accessibility, leveraging sense of belonging and pro-activism. Digitalization and IoT open key opportunities to this extent, such as crowd-sourced and open co-creative approaches, allowing for harvesting data that might be even integrated in sustainable energy and climate plans. After providing an overview of the programmatic framework, the paper will present some exemplary initiatives, replying to the following questions: • How is Culture supporting action for Climate? Is the energy and climate research and academic world actually playing a role in cultural practices? • Is empowerment, hence behavioural change, for climate through art, heritage and cultural & creative industry (CCI) currently assessed? • Is an integration between cultural and climate policies being practiced?
Cultural Audience Engagement for Climate Action
ezilda costanzo
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
2024-01-01
Abstract
Reaching wider audiences to define and promote new sustainable lifestyles is a major challenge. The arts can emotionally transfer scientific messages complementing or even replacing conventional knowledge valorisation. Culture is increasingly committed to sustainable development. Cultural and creative initiatives may boost Climate action and a just and clean energy transition by establishing a multidisciplinary dialogue between citizens, artists, curators but also experts and researchers. Such an engagement can help energy experts and planners better develop mitigation and adaptation strategies. Cultural and creative organisations (museums, but also libraries and theatres) can contribute carrying out social practices and guaranteeing inclusiveness and accessibility, leveraging sense of belonging and pro-activism. Digitalization and IoT open key opportunities to this extent, such as crowd-sourced and open co-creative approaches, allowing for harvesting data that might be even integrated in sustainable energy and climate plans. After providing an overview of the programmatic framework, the paper will present some exemplary initiatives, replying to the following questions: • How is Culture supporting action for Climate? Is the energy and climate research and academic world actually playing a role in cultural practices? • Is empowerment, hence behavioural change, for climate through art, heritage and cultural & creative industry (CCI) currently assessed? • Is an integration between cultural and climate policies being practiced?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
