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Of all the threats to humanity, the effects of global warming and climate change are the greatest concern. Temperatures and sea levels are on the rise. Glaciers are melting. We’re seeing more droughts, floods, fires, storms, erosion, decline and extinction. We’re on the verge of a tipping point, so what are we going to do about it?

Immediate action is required if even the most conservative predictions about the devastating impact of the climate emergency are to be avoided. The burning of fossil fuels, cutting down of forests, exploitation of natural resources and livestock farming have led to a rapid and possibly unstoppable rise in global temperatures.

What role do the arts play in a response to this urgent global challenge? How might makers, writers, artists, designers and architects come together to address this crisis? How can we work together to heighten awareness, call others to act, persuade policy-makers or inform the decisions individuals make about the way we live our lives?

A key concern for students in this theme was to explore how measures and rhetoric that speak to the climate emergency might be decolonised, asking what it means to take an anti-racist approach to addressing the world’s greatest challenge. A call for reparations and collective global action was keenly discussed, acknowledging that the impact of climate change is felt first, and worst, by those nations and people least responsible for it.

Here you will find the work of collectives who through dynamic active dialogue have investigated how to respond to, engage with or deepen awareness of the climate crisis.

Brown earth like material with cuts repaired with stitches

54 Projects for Climate Crisis

A video containing stop motions of engaging with awkwardly shaped discarded bits.

Awkward Bits

Think again before you discard your scrapes. Just because they're awkward, it doesn't mean they don't fit.
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A variety of brightly colored plants with large stomata growing under the tree

CRAZY PLANTS

Installation and video that shows oil pollution's harm to plants
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The artwork installation showing degraded oyster in the future, where it had smaller fruit and corroded surfaces.

Degraded Food by Climate Change

Understand how climate change can affect our food in various aspects, through artwork installations and interactive webpages.
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Women's labour in the fishing industry and in their lives.

Invisible Women

Women, Gender, and the Ocean in a Changing Climate.
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Evil Gang Pirate Radio

Evil Gang Pirate Radio

Evil Gang Garden Radio is a satirical/anarchical pirate radio project that broadcasts collaged and abstracted writings about the back garden.
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Cover page: Ode To The Tomato

Ode To The Tomato

Magazine exploring the impact and potential of the tomato as a means for climate activism
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A photo of a custom tent in focus in the background.

Beneath the Patches

An exploration of our relationship with the environment, through food, fire and housing, to promote equality and sustainability.
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Image of person touching interactive print and triggering projections of content.

Project Orange : Future Farming

Glyphosate Versus Sustainable Futures in UK Agriculture
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A 3D mockup of the collaborative zine.

Urban Winds

The zine project contains a series of multidisciplinary works that respond to exacerbated building-induced wind turbulence and funnelling.
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A busy city centre with giant whale-sized headphones in the middle. Dolphins and people around them. (Ai generated)

WhalePods

Protecting marine life from underwater noise pollution.
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human spine shape sculpture

From Sea to Skeleton

The sculpture designed for cultivating corals aims to explore the intimate relationship between humans, corals, and the ocean.
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Installation featuring sculpture, location flags, film still of rocket launch, an animated explosion and two photographs.

Space Debris

A critical examination of the environmental ramifications of global space activities and industry.
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Cover of the zine.

Plantae Animalia Kingdom

Speculative zine envisioning future Animal Plantae evolutions.
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(Left) A wrapped-around skirt. (Right) A re-sewed shirt from the skirt.

Re-Sew

We create clothing that ages with you by re-sewing it into other garments after it completes its journey.
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Polluted Container/Container 1.0

Nuclear and Nuclear Pollution

Our group takes the threat posed by nuclear pollution to the marine ecological cycle as the main focus of our research and development.
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Shooting scene

FEAST

A utopian image characterized by multi-species communities.
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Combining different plastic materials with the biological skeleton and testing different fusion techniques.

Are we colonized by microplastics?

An insightful explanation in the form of a film about the colonisation of our lives by plastic and the reality of its relevance to us.
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A bucket hat in a neutral beige color, made out of linen, floating in front of blooming wildflowers.

Bloom Bucket

A bucket hat for people to use at festivals that can help the process of fallowing the land the festival is hosted on.
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Display Illustration of Card Game Instruction Manual

River Journey

A card game promoting awareness of water pollution and encouraging the protection of water resources.
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a pixel game play screenshot in yellow, pink and white, depicting a scientific lab

Climate Cluedo

Bumble is on a quest to find the Climate change Villain. A no-stress game about a complex issue that has life-and-death implications.
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A magazine spread with colourful and whimsical illustrations about corn

Cool Cellulose

A speculative children's magazine from the future that subtly and satirically illustrates the effects of climate change
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Series of Petri dishes showcasing the binding capabilities of mycelium with various Biosubstrates

Mycological Futures

An Enquiry into the Binding Capability of Mycelium as a Future Material for Bioremediation
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Envelope made from hand-made recycled paper with title on it ´What can each of us do NOW?´

Collective Hub

Collective Hub: Community, Skill sharing, Waste
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A photo of our zine, Re-Constructed. Cream pages bound in a cover made out of recycled cardboard.

Re-Constructed

Re-Constructed is a zine about recycling and individual versus corporate responsibility.
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In the age of high speed and materialisation, when humans buy produce, they think about the goods themselves, not the journey of

FRUIT ODYSSEY

In the age of high speed and materialisation, when humans buy produce, they think about the goods themselves, not the journey of production.
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A Pinch of Salt

A Pinch of Salt

Salt is a natural substance which has existed throughout time, while sodium is an essential chemical element within the human body.
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Two women holding flags, one white and one dyed black, on the Battersea Bridge

Mayday Project

Performance that utilizes the flag as a tool to raise awareness and to express our preoccupation for the urgent situation of climate change.
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Workshop

Building the Future with Sustainable Construction Materials

Building sustainable societies is our shared responsibility
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reuse material to create new playful game

Ecopoly

"EcoPoly" engages participants through games to raise awareness of the climate crisis and its impact on Earth's sustainability.
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Sinking Cities is an educational board game that aims to spread awareness about sea level rise in a fun and engaging way.

Sinking Cities Board Game

Sinking Cities is an educational board game that aims to spread awareness about sea level rise in a fun and engaging way.
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WHISPER” Installation 2024 130*80*30cm Wood, Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Hydrochromic Ink, Found Metal Objects

WHISPER

"Journey of Water: A Portrait of Women's Struggle"
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Close shot of dark coloured coffee leather material with brown thread stitching pieces together.

Across RCA Cafés

A reflection on our coffee consumption.
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Cabbage

Heated Harvest: A Melting Message

The project shows the journey of a person going to a store to buy cabbage and returning home in a city where the temperature is over 40℃.
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Plants-We are the last on earth

Plants-We are the last on earth

The "Plants Video" aims to awaken people's attention to the climate crisis by providing a sensory and emotional experience.
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A virtual space hosts artefacts and 3D scans of our own experiences, and presents each activities in these spaces.

AMOK Festivals

A way to nurture eco-friendly friendships.
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Monuments of the Liminal

This interactive sculpture is a poetic response to the barriers of cognitive disassociation - focusing on reconnection and redefinition.
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final product-bomber jacket planted with chia seeds

Verde Vanish

Verde Vanish is a ground-breaking fashion project that merges fashion's and plant life's vitality.
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An oyster shell with imitation eggs made with sand and oyster shell on a black background with scattered sand.

Haven

Climate Crisis Mitigation Project for Sea Turtles
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Image of Artefact produced for Across RCA Climate Change

Whispers of the Vanishing

A collaborative endeavor, comprised of a cross-disciplinary collective, to shed light on the grave consequences of glacial melting
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Across RCA Climate Crisis - PAWSHROOM Featured image.

PAWSHROOM

Feed Your Pet, Feed the Earth: Edible Packaging for a Greener Future!
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