ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Polar: The Art & Science of Climate Change is a programme focusing on the curation and production of climate change knowledge in the polar regions, including two new artists' commissions, an interdisciplinary symposium, series of public talks and a publication.
Tomas Saraceno's Poetic Cosmos of the Breath was an experimental solar dome that was inflated by the warmth of the sun at dawn.
Malamp, Brandon Ballengée
During 2007 and 2008, artist Brandon Ballengée has been leading a UK study into declining amphibian species, through participatory lab and field-based research investigations, working with the public as well as collaborating scientists. Ballengée's investigations are being enabled by residencies at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Gunpowder Park, Essex, and SPACE, London.
Ecology Action Research
Two ecology art projects led by artists Antony Hall Heathbrook Primary School, London, and Sally Hampson with Oakley School, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Bird Lake Museum, Sally Hampson
Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve, Kent
The Bird-Lake Museum was a museum of natural history created by young people with special educational needs at Oakley School, Tunbridge Wells, Rosendale School, Dulwich, Turney School, Dulwich, and Waveney School, Tonbridge.
Bower Birds – Sally Hampson
London Zoo
Sally Hampson ran education projects with Fairleigh House School, Pimlico, London, and Sevenoaks County Primary School, Kent, looking at the entrancing behaviour of bower birds.
