Creative practice Reading List

Art therapy, ecological grief, mourning and climate loss; explores creative practice as a pathway for ecological grieving.

For a growing number of people in the UK climate change is an important consideration when deciding whether to have a child. Motherhood in a Climate Crisis is a collaborative theatre-making project, held within structures of radical care, to create a brave space where women with diverse choices and experiences relating to motherhood could share their thoughts, feelings and concerns in safety and support. Outcomes of the project are described and implications for the issue in the consulting room are developed, alongside how an ethics of care is essential to imagining and building just futures.

ABSTRACT: Despite being on the front lines of climate catastrophe, the voices and actions of critically affected groups are often overlooked. The present research partnered with Haitian youth - who are marginalized from climate decision-making on the basis of nationality and age - to explore and address sustainability challenges in their coastal community. This study explored processes of individual and collective empowerment made possible through a community-based arts center course that integrated the arts and sciences to position youth as change agents for a more sustainable Haiti.