Making space for creative climate action
Discover how your museum collections can inspire and engage communities in hopeful conversation and creative climate action.
Event information
Date: 27th February
Time: 10am – 12pm
Organiser: National Museums Scotland
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
How can museums provide a safe and hopeful space to engage local communities in conversations about climate change? How can collections inspire museum visitors with creativity and calls for positive action and collective change?
Since October 2024, National Museums Scotland have been delivering two public engagement projects exploring environmental sustainability in Scotland, funded by the Scottish Government’s Climate Engagement Fund.
Sewing Hope: Quilts for Climate Change and Planetopia: Agency for World Change Agreements focus on hope, empowering communities to engage with the challenging topic of climate change in their own creative ways.
Join this free online event, where National Museums Scotland and partners will share learning and reflections from their experience of delivering these programmes.
The event will include:
- Project presentations from National Museums Scotland, led by Ashley Mackenzie-White, Engagement Manager and Lucy Bull, Project Co-ordinator and Engagement Officer.
- An introduction to the original concept of Planetopia: Agency for World Change Agreements from the Museum of Communication in Bern, Switzerland.
- Case studies from partner museums who have taken part in the Sewing Hope: Quilts for Climate Change national project.
- Opportunities to meet peers from other museums, share learning and discuss potential climate themes within your own collections.
Participation in this session will enable you to:
- Find out more about Sewing Hope: Quilts for Climate Change and Planetopia: Agency for World Change Agreements, including delivery and evaluation methods used by the project team and lessons learned.
- Discover how to run similar projects in your own museum, including using a toolkit developed by the project team on running a Sewing Hope workshop.
- Consider how your museum’s collections and spaces can be used to host open conversations and creative activity around climate change.
- Gain contacts and peer support for taking the next steps.
- Give feedback on what further support would help you to run climate-focused engagement projects.
This session is for people who:
- Work or volunteer in a museum, gallery or other type of organisation that holds a public collection in Scotland.
- Want to gain knowledge, skills and confidence in how to create climate-focused programming and events for diverse audiences.