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Winners of the Sustainability First People’s Choice Art Award!

The Art and Energy Collective is a not-for-profit group of artists, makers, thinkers and tinkerers who want to use our skills to respond to the climate emergency.

We specialise in designing educational mass participation artworks that help people connect with nature and take steps towards a brighter greener future.

We are interested in getting creative with energy systems, particularly those using natural energy, within all of life and through renewables.

Creative Practice and Embodied Knowledge

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CPEK is a research collective at Bath Spa University that aims to celebrate and elevate knowledge that exists and emerges from our creative, embodied interactions and experiences.

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Located in the diverse and creative city of Birmingham our provision spans across a range of Music and Acting undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as Junior Conservatoire – providing specialist musical tuition for talented young musicians at the £57 million Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. We put employability and entrepreneurship centre stage, and provide a platform from which successful and sustainable careers can be launched.

We’re passionate about empowering our students of all ages to reach their full potential, regardless of background or previous experience. Indeed, we define ourselves by our nurturing, supportive approach: we get to know every one of our students as individuals, and help guide them to discover, develop and pursue their own personal strengths and enthusiasms.

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kin·ship n. Relationship by nature, character, affinity or common origin
wərk·shop n. Site or place where making or repairing happens

Studies show that we are rapidly losing our connection with nature, which significantly contributes to the ecological crises of our times: environmental degradation, species decline, climate change. We care for what we love, so rekindling kinship with all life has never been more

Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad have been working collaboratively as BodyCartography since 1998.

Our artistic and educational work cultivates tools for collective evolution in this moment of planetary crisis. Through somatic, dance, choreographic and curatorial practice we work with resonant, relational and regenerative approaches that support the vital materiality of bodies, minds, and the more-than-human world.

Over the past twenty seven years our offerings have functioned to deepen the conversation in dance, somatic practice and site work, to give value to other ways of experiencing and making dance. Movement research, somatic and improvisational practice inform the ground of our dance-making and teaching practice. Somatic practice, specifically Body-Mind Centering®, is an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. We are certified teachers of Body-Mind Centering® working internationally.

We are supported and inspired by the work of our mentors Steve Paxton, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Lisa Nelson. We teach their work as a way of care-taking these lineages.

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The Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA) aims to position the arts and culture sector as a driver of sustainable societies by providing tools, research, educational resources, training, & consultation services related to sustainable development.

We publish, electronically and in print, associated research in this field  to reflect the myriad ways in which sustainability in the arts is discussed, approached & practiced.

We provide tools for and cultural organizations to record, measure and understand their environmental footprint. We also share free courses to cultivate community learning.

We offer comprehensive consulting services, which can include tailored guidance on sustainability strategies, climate change preparedness, and resource efficiency. Utilizing the Creative Green tools, we assist organizations in calculating and reporting their carbon footprints, enabling them to understand and reduce their negative environmental impacts and support them in increasing their positive impacts.

Our services include in-depth research, educational resources, and specialized guidance to foster sustainable practices within artistic and cultural institutions.

We organize convening that gather industry leaders, educators, Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, students and the general public to share ideas and celebrate innovations in the sector.

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Climate Museum UK is a group of artists and educators who help people make sense of environmental issues and histories through creative conversations.

We explore new methods and build skills to engage people with the Earth crisis.

We run pop-ups and workshops in museums and community spaces across the UK. Using art, stories and heritage sites, we help people know what they can do. Our main principle is being Possitopian, inspiring people to widen their imagination to positive possibilities whilst raising awareness of science and the challenges ahead.

We have a national reputation as thoughtful experts and creatives in this field. With this expertise, we run training, bringing people together across different disciplines.

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Human Clay CIC is a non-profit, practice-based organisation rooted in Devon, UK, working at the intersection of performance, ecology, and cultural heritage. We create films, performances, workshops, and research projects that explore the embodied experience of being-in-the-world, where land, memory, movement, and imagination converge.

We believe the body is a site of sensing, remembering, and transformation. Through practices of dance, ritual, storytelling, and visual art, we engage with ancestral knowledge, more-than-human presence, and the unseen rhythms that shape life. Our work is guided by eco-somatic awareness and an ethic of attention, offering forms of artistic inquiry that reawaken our relationship to place, perception, and the elemental world.

Whether through film, live performance, or collaborative research, we explore the vibrancy of multispecies entanglement, the poetics of decay and renewal, and the deep time of cultural and ecological continuity. We seek to create works that are felt, works that listen, respond, and honour their sources.

Human Clay exists to support community-rooted and cross-cultural exchange. We collaborate with artists, researchers, weavers, dancers, elders, and ecologists to cultivate spaces where art becomes a practice of kinship, ceremony, and reclamation.

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IFEEA is an emergent international forum for practitioners, educators and scholars in the growing field of eco-embodied arts. We intend to mobilise experiential, sensuous and creaturely ways of ‘being-with’ that challenge dominant anthropocentric knowledge formations.

We are committed to creating new ways to approach equitable and regenerative futures, and to activate and connect individuals, groups, communities and places as agents of eco-cultural awareness, citizenship and change. IFEEA  aims to widen and support access, participation, connections and exchanges across and beyond lands, skies, seas, abilities, cultures and disciplines.

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Middlesex University is one of the UK’s largest universities with a number of highly respected departments working in the arts.

Our primary supporter is Prof. Loraine Leeson,  a visual artist whose research focuses on the role of art in social and environmental change through bringing community-based knowledge into the public domain. Early work included photo-murals, posters, video and exhibition for the health campaigns and the Docklands Community Poster Project in the1980s. In subsequent decades work with East London communities addressed the impact of change in the urban environment on quality of life and cultural identity. This was followed by a series of online projects children and teenagers, which attracted a Media Trust Inspiring Voices award and Olympic Inspire Mark, while a public artwork The Catch involving three hundred young people in Barking was voted a London 2012 Landmark. Recent work has involved communities in addressing environmental concerns.

For two decades Loraine was director of the arts charity cSPACE, led the strategy group Arts for Labour for five years and continues as chair of the film and video production and training centre Four Corners. A retrospective exhibition celebrating thirty years of her practice toured Berlin, London, Toronto and Dublin 2005-08. 2017 saw her 1970s photomontage work in support of health campaigns exhibited at ICA London and the Routledge publication of her monograph Art:Process:Change – inside a socially situated practice. She was Fulbright Scholar in residence at University of Washington in 2011 and since that time has taught Fine Art Social Practice in the Department of Visual Arts at Middlesex University.

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kin·ship n. Relationship by nature, character, affinity or common origin
wərk·shop n. Site or place where making or repairing happens

Studies show that we are rapidly losing our connection with nature, which significantly contributes to the ecological crises of our times: environmental degradation, species decline, climate change. We care for what we love, so rekindling kinship with all life has never been more important.

Kinship Workshop offers a contemporary nature connection practice that centres experiential, somatic tools and practices for remembering and reconnecting with nature.

We run a seasonal programme of workshops taking groups of participants out into wilder landscapes to spend unhurried time in and as part of nature. We explore connection to land and other living beings through embodiment exercises.

How do we: move, sense, play, feel, touch, propriocept, balance, hang, hang out, congregate, assert, negotiate, observe, wait, rest and be with others? Through experiencing or remembering our human physicality, senses, desires and close connection to others (human and non-human), we find our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver).

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Regen works to identify and overcome the strategic challenges to decarbonising power, heat and transport. We apply our expertise to the whole energy system to advocate for a fast and fair transition to net zero.

Regen provides independent, evidence-led insight and advice to support a net zero future.