Creative Collaborative Placements
The Creative Collaborative Placements programme is being run as part of the PLACE Collective’s involvement in the LUNZ (Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People) Hub, a UK-wide consortium that has been set up to help drive the transformation of UK land use that’s needed to achieve net zero by 2050.
The programme gives a framework for artists to join specialists from research, practice and policy, and to develop work in response to a specified topic in the context of land use change. There are four Creative Collaborative Placements, one in each of the four nations.
artists and focus of research
In England, multi-media artist Daksha Patel is liaising with the Rothamsted Institute. The focus is supporting agroecosystem transitions in the context of a changing world.
In Northern Ireland, poet Kate Caoimhe Arthur, linking with AFBI (AgriFood and Biosciences Institute), will be enquiring into Livestock, Land and Livelihoods.
In Wales, printmaker and artist Jacqui Symons is working with CEH (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) to begin work considering ‘Patchwork’: connecting the smaller scale of landscape change to the bigger national ambition.
In Scotland, working with inspiration from the James Hutton Institute, artist duo Becky Little and Tom Morton (Rebearth / Arc) are exploring The earth beneath our feet: understanding, regenerating, connecting.
The placements are an opportunity to use imaginative and novel artistic methods in transdisciplinary research, engagement and practice within and beyond the LUNZ Hub. The artists will be connected with specialists involved in academic research, land use practice and policy in a process intended to stimulate questions and a critical re-evaluation of knowledges, narratives and systems across and between disciplines, and allow for playful and/or bold imaginaries and Aha! moments.
Follow the links above to find out more about each artist and their project focus. The next six months are going to be exciting – research, conversations, fieldwork, workshops and new learning about an integrated approach to enquiry, practice and connection. Updates will be shared through the blog.
