Our research and creative works will focus on ways regional creative practitioners and researchers can work with science and environment knowledge professionals to imagine and design creative works to engage communities in strengthening sustainable thinking and action on the climate crisis. There will be a particular focus on creating works in the digital space, including virtual or augmented reality and accessing and integrating publicly available data into creative works. Science and environment experts and Indigenous elders will collaborate with us as advisors.
We see the process of making the climate emergency visible and relatable an important aim for our research. Participants come from a range of backgrounds in arts, communication, design and education and science.
Visualisation of impacts of climate change locally may be one way to start investigation. Imagining data and software that models changes in water levels or temperature could lead to a wider investigation of how to access and incorporate Bureau of Meteorology data into creative works.
Questions to consider:
- How to access to science data, what is publicly available and what can we access through our networks?
- Formats – what form can the data be saved in that will be compatible with creative works?
- How does data interact with GIS tools and what is needed for it to be spatially/geographically visualised?
- Can some data be viewed in 3D?
- How could remote sensing help to visualise change over time of floods and other climate crises?
- How can fluctuations and changes over time be modelled or viewed?
A note on the title: Margaret Woodward began thinking about “not in my back yard” as having a double meaning around disappearing species, but then thought about all the negative associations with NIMBYs. So then the idea of not on my watch appeared as having more of a connection with care, with noticing, with action and with time.
