Climate change has come to the top of the EU agenda thanks to the Green Deal. culture Solutions is dedicated to clarifying the intimate but still underexplored relation between cultural relations and climate action.
Climate change & New Bauhaus
30 August 2024
cS Proposal #1: How can EU cultural actors contribute to Creative Climate Action?
How can EU cultural actors contribute to Creative Climate Action? That important question was the topic of an open call launched by the network of EU National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in November 2023. culture Solutions developed a proposal in answer to that call that can guide EU cultural actors, their partners and wider audiences in their efforts to engage and bridge culture and climate action.
9 November 2023
What roles for culture in awareness, engagement and climate transition?
Culture and art influence our perception of the world and increase our awareness of it. Together, they are a reflection of an era, the issues that define it and the values of the people who live it. As a true support for reflection, art provides a means of communicating ecological concepts capable of changing our habits and behaviours. This is why culture Solutions co-organised a roundtable on “What roles for culture in awareness, engagement and climate transition?” with Talk C.E.C and Smarter Together, with the support of EU4Ocean Coalition.
October 2023
Composing green podcast miniseries
The miniseries sheds light on the various facets of the climate-culture nexus. Listening to people from diverse fields that all work on cultural solutions to make behavioural change happen, the podcast contributes to awareness raising about climate action and best practice. This first episode presents agroforestry as a set of cultural traditions, practices and know-how that mix trees and agriculture.
23 March 2023
Weapons and renewable energy for peace and climate: A European Culture Facility
Over a one year into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this blog post argues that the EU and its Member States urgently need to adjust their external cultural action to recent geopolitical paradigm shifts, as well as climate and cultural challenges by creating a European Culture Facility.
26 December 2021
Learning from COP26: A place for Culture in Climate Action
A month after the closing of COP26, this blog article revisits the discussions, explores the outcomes, and highlights the multiple contributions of culture to climate action.
8 May 2021
New European Bauhaus: interculturally global
The New European Bauhaus is an environmental, economic and cultural project, aiming to combine design, sustainability, accessibility, affordability and investment. Find out the tips EU decision-makers may use to reflect through the project’s design phase in this article.
26 April 2020
Culture & climate change: the future of EU international cultural relations
The climate crisis and its environmental facets are questioning the roots of human culture and creativity. They also require paradigmatic shifts in government policies and thereby EU policies. Composing Trust brief #6 identifies policy priorities for an “EU global culture and climate change initiative”.