"Because I want to learn about climate change and I am excited to do art"
We are excited to announce that we are working on a new children and young people’s project with artist Stine Marie Jacobsen and children at St Anne’s Catholic Primary school in Liverpool.
A group of children aged 7-11 have informed the project – which aims to promote the wellbeing of young people in relation to the climate crisis – through a series of workshops over the past few weeks. The sessions have encouraged children to imagine ways of tackling the climate change, with their ideas expressed through a series of drawings.
In the early workshops we asked the children if and why they would like to work with Stine – here are some of their responses:
“Yes because I really want to help climate change.”
“Because art is the best way”
“Yes because I want to fix global warming and climate change”
“I love art and it is so so so so so so fun”
“Because I want to be an artist too!”
“I would like to do the workshop because I have an amazing imagination”
“Because I want the 80% of polar bears that are dying not to die. I want 100% of polar bears to live not 20%”
“Because I want to learn about climate change and I am excited to do art”
The outcome of the project will be officially unveiled in Summer 2024 – watch this space for updates!
Take a look behind the scenes of the workshops
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Stine Marie Jacobsen School Workshops, April 2024 -
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Artist
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Artist
Stine Marie Jacobsen
Stine Marie Jacobsen (she/her) is a conceptual artist working on long term participatory & educational projects and professor of new media art at Die Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany.
Stine investigates and questions institutional structures concerned with participation in law, violence, and education, while advocating for civic participation in art and politics. Her negotiations have led her to develop artistic methods for anti-violence training, law writing, and protest as sport through her projects Direct Approach (2012-), Law Shifters (2016-), and Group-Think (2020-).
Collaborator
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Collaborator
Aleks Berditchevskaia
Aleks Berditchevskaia is the Principal Researcher at Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design. She is a mixed methods researcher and has helped organisations like the International Federation for the Red Cross and UNDP use collective intelligence methods and participatory design to address issues ranging from climate adaptation to crisis response.