28 October 2018

Fire and Ice: The Art of Climate Change. Conference

Saturday October 28. 3-6pm.

Increasingly we live in a world which has to cope with changing weather patterns, environmental shocks and disasters.

Whatever the causes, and wherever the effects are felt, our responses and solutions need to be practical ones if human society is to survive. But what are the roles, in any field involved, for the imagination, for creativity, ingenuity? To what extent can we maintain a harmony with nature? Is it helpful for arts, sciences and engineers to interact, and if so, how? Can our future be creatively re-imagined?

Chaired by Tom Burke CBE, Director of E3G the prominent environmental organisation.  Contributors included: Gina Glover (Artist-exhibitor), Jack Heslop, (Engineer, WSP),  Jessica Rayner (Artist-exhibitor), Simon Read, (Artist). 

Contributors include:

Gina Glover (Artist-exhibitor – fracking, icebergs melting),

Jack Heslop, (Engineer, WSP, talking about coastal erosion and flood protection),

Hilary Mayo (Artist-exhibitor – talking about Iceland and effect on her work)

Jessica Rayner (Artist-exhibitor – energy over-use, biofuels),

Simon Read, (Artist who has worked on flood protection in Suffolk & elsewhere)