Creators Climate Emergency

Creators Climate Emergency invite you to enter a rich and inspiring dialogue that brings together today’s leading artists, architects, scientists, and thinkers around the crucial issue of our time: man-made climate change.

The nine conversations gathered in this book, held between 2020 and 2022, emerged from the Covid pandemic and the impulsion of Nathalie Guiot, founder of the Fondation Thalie, to create a collective reflection on what can be done and especially what the role of the artist can and should be within it.

This series, curated by Stefano Vendramin, is a testament to the power of dialogue in forging paths towards a more sustainable future. has curated these conversations.

The artists who have been invited are all pioneers in the development of a deep engagement with specific environmental questions through their artistic practice, but in myriad different ways. In each case, I sought to find them a respected counterpart that could highlight the wider context, whether scientific or theoretical, for the explored topic.

What we find at the heart of all these discussions is a shared conviction: art possesses an unparalleled capacity to illuminate, provoke, and ultimately transform our engagement to living things. What also emerges is its collaborative potential with other fields, notably human and natural sciences, in building a collective response to our climate emergency.

“It will be interesting to see how an artistic approach can reawaken our connection with the world. It’s clear that at the moment we need to shake things up a bit, societally-speaking. We need to get out of our ivory towers, of the singular visions linked to our respective disciplines. Collectively, these disciplines only make sense if they support a global way of being in the world.” (Marc-André Selosse, “Producing from the mycellium”).