How artists make climate change accessible

Artists do more than simply tell us there’s a problem: they can make complex scientific reports accessible and tangible, say Christiaan De Beukelaer, Eloise Jane Breskvar and Peter Christoff.

At COP26 in Glasgow, a public artwork intervention stands at Govan Graving Docks, directly opposite the main delegate zone. Still/Moving’s unmissable NO NEW WORLDS is a text and light-based piece that alternates between nine iterations of the three words in its title.

As artist Leonie Hampton explains, the re-writable quality of NO NEW WORLDS

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