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Forest Fall by Andrew Zdravic © 2007
Art for social change
The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre is an organisation whose role is to catalyse, publicise, challenge and support artists who are responding to the unprecedented environmental challenges of our era. Using their inspirations, RSA Arts and Ecology aims to create a positive discussion about the causes and the human impact of climate change through commissioning, debate, interdisciplinary discourse and a high-profile website.
The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre was set up by the RSA in 2005.The centre's head, Michaela Crimmin, says "Artists have always had a powerful relationship with the natural environment. Equally artists continually question and re-examine society's notions of progress. We need their unique perspective on the enormous challenges ahead - on the relationship between environmental issues, and not least climate change, and people."
Latest Blog Posts
Gustav Metzger: artists“taking moral standpoints”
Forty-eight years ago today, Gustav Metzger took a bottle of hydrochloric acid to the South Bank and set about destroying suspended sheets of nylon in an act of what he called Auto-Destructive painting. For Metzger, whose personal world view was formed in the shadow of World War II, this was ...
Tim Smit: sustainability as“hippy shit”
Yesterday I was at the Sustainable Development Commission Breakthrough Ideas For the 21st Century event in London. Ed Miliband came and gave a nice speech, the gist of which was,“We know you don't think we're doing enough, but we're doing as much as is possibly achievable.” Afterwards we all ...
Ed Miliband’s summer reading
Ed Miliband's summer reading from RSA Arts&Ecology on Vimeo.It was Robert Butler of the Ashden Directory who spotted what Ed Miliband had tucked under his arm as he came to announce the winners of the first TippingPoint Commision awards...