● Cultural Adaptations

Creative Carbon Scotland (UK)

TILLT (SE), Greentrack Ghent (BE), Axis Ballymun (IE)

State of the art

Where many cultural projects concentrate on more sustainable ways of working and how to restrict the extent of climate change, Creative Carbon Scotland explores what happens next: how culture can not only adapt to, and shape, a climate-changed world, but how the sector can thrive.

Description of the project

Cultural adaptations addresses one of the biggest crises of society: the climate emergency. In each country, cultural organisations were paired with climate change experts and city governments to explore how culture can adapt to the impacts of climate change as well as how creative practice can influence and shape European cities’ transformative adaptation. Project outputs facilitate capacity building in cultural organisations across the EU, allowing them to create their own climate change adaptation strategies and to apply their artistic skills to adaptation work outside the cultural sector. The project built capacity among cultural organisations and individuals in relation to develop new business models and provided education and training opportunities to cope with the implications of climate change, resulting in increased resilience in the cultural sector.

Climate change adaptation is a complex task, requiring new types of thinking for this new problem, with far reaching implications in society.

Creative Europe’s support

Climate change transcends national borders, so it was crucial for partners that the project was not undertaken in national isolation. The Creative Europe programme made this possible. Within this framework, the socio-cultural, economic and political differences between partners further highlighted and strengthened the shared environmental challenge, and what can be learned from each other.

#climate change #cities #adaptation strategies #capacity building #resilience #new business models

Beyond Environmental Sustainability

Climate change impacts are likely to affect the most vulnerable in society most quickly and most severely, therefore equality and gender equality must be considered as a priority in adaptation decision making.

Contact

www.culturaladaptations.com Creative Europe Project Results