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How we connect to the earth and each other is more important than ever. Designer Gaja Mežnarić Osole and visual artist Allison O’Connor talk to Louis VI about how public art in unexpected spaces can engage communities with nature, and in turn help us to repair our relationships with each other and the more-than-human world. 

Co-host Farah Ahmed closes the podcast series with an introduction to Julie’s Bicycle and unpacks why we developed the Creative Climate Leadership programme.

How do we use our curiosity to move towards deeper connections? Host Louis VI, and guests researcher Zoe Rasbash and curator Mateo Chacón Pino discuss how research can utilise different forms of knowledge to develop communication strategies and actions to bring communities along. 

How can playfulness interact with our Climate Action? Our host Louis VI is joined by theatre-maker and experience designer Toby Peach and director and theatre-maker Ntando Cele, who invite us to think about how humour can connect us to difficult subjects. Toby and Ntando discuss playful activism as a tool to engage audiences with creative climate action, inspire empathy across borders, and give us the permission to step into leadership on climate action.

How can culture tell another story about the climate crisis? Louis VI speaks to producer and artist Eliki Reade and cultural leader Julie Forchhammer about how the arts and culture can utilise our power as an industrial ecology, to challenge the influence of fossil fuels through grassroots action and in policy spaces. They explore art and culture beyond professionalisation, and generate ideas on how we could live “artfully” alongside the more-than-human world.

True leadership takes a lot of creativity and courage. Climate justice activist Payal Parekh and artist, activist, permaculture teacher Guy Ritani join Louis VI to talk about how creativity can feed into grassroots-led climate activism, and shape global climate policy in a truly intersectional and intergenerational way. 

How can we collectively explore different kinds of care? Louis VI talks to choreographer Dawit Seto and arts manager and curator Ceyda Berk-Söderblom about how creativity supports climate leadership from the Global South, and provides insight on why we need diverse approaches to language beyond words and through sensory expression.