Recent publication in Degrowth Journal: Curating degrowth engagement through art-science-activism

 “Curating degrowth engagement through art-science-activism” (2025) Degrowth Journal. doi:10.36399/Degrowth.003.02.06.

My recently published paper discusses the value of curated art-science-activism collaborations that explore local to global environmental limits from a social and behaviour change perspective. This socially engaged ethos uses art as verb as a practise to generate participatory and collaborative engagement in communities. It seeks to shift social norms by fostering conscious immersion and intimate connection to nature through participatory and collaborative processes delivered in partnership with creative, scientific and ecological organisations. The approach sets the tone for contemplating human impact and promoting desirable pro environmental behaviours through creative perspectives, curative actions, scientific information and decision-making strategies. This connects with the Degrowth agenda that seeks the development of alternative futures that provide for human and non-human wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Although art and creativity can generate empathetic personal connection, a shift in social norms arises from engaging citizens pragmatically through collective processes of deeper reflection and active engagement and a strategy for fundamental change that is multi-disciplinary and towards the collective good.