JUST ART Framework

This project, carried out by two researchers, develops a theory-to-practice framework which connects the methodologies of artistic research to the known tenets of climate justice. This framework provides (i) a theoretical analysis of the kinship between the complexity of climate justice and the multimodalityof artistic research. It will initially serve (ii) as a guide to the WPs research projects, ensuring that different tenets of climate justice are addressed, voices recognized, and relevant methods of intervention, cocreation, and collaboration identified. It will furthermore (iii) facilitate awareness and understanding on how institutions, ranging from governmental and environmental to cultural, can use art and artistic research to support a just pathway towards climate-just societal systems. It will finally (iv) consolidate the Creating Common Grounds methods (see 5.1.) used throughout WPs and operationalize them through concepts of reiterating, embedding, and upscaling methodological innovation. The researchers tasked with this sub-project first compile an extensive literature review of climate justice research in core disciplines (social science and humanities, philosophy, law, economy, environmental sciences) and identify and clarify the diverse forms of climate justice that materialize within art and artistic research practices. This task also includes the identification of the value-chain stakeholders per 'case' in WP2-6. Following this initial phase, the sub-project will collaborate closely with all other WPs in an iterative process through thematic workshops, collecting and synthesizing existing and newly developed artistic research practices, and feed these insights back into the framework again. The finalized framework provides a lens, a roadmap, and concrete strategies to raise awareness and develop art-driven actions towards climate justice. In order to operationalize the framework, this task includes developing different toolsets for different stakeholder groups and best-practice guidelines with clear examples that demonstrate how climate justice can be effected through art. This leads to recognition of artistic research by science, institutions, funding agencies and societal organisations and enables them to employ art and artistic research to effect transition towards climate just futures. Het Klimaatmuseum (Climate Museum) – a pop-up museum for public, non-art spaces with the mission to explain the consequences of the climate crisis through art – will translate the framework into an engaging, adaptable, and transportable pop-up exhibition to be shown in public spaces and institutions (train stations, hospitals, governmental buildings) in order to disseminate the JUST ART Framework to a wide public. A smaller and more focused version will be produced for policy- and decision makers.