Description
8th-10th June 2025
Dundee Contemporary Arts and V&A Museum
Dundee
We exist in a vibrant, beautiful, and resilient living world. We also face spiralling climate change, ecological breakdown, and biodiversity loss at an unprecedented rate; all driven by human activity. While grappling with human responsibility through the discourse of the ‘anthropocene’, we also respond to a global energy crisis that is entangled with war, geopolitical tension, and rising energy demand. Meanwhile accounts of climate anxiety, ecological distress, and climate grief are increasing around the world.
The arts have offered a unique opportunity to respond to times of crisis, helping people process complex emotional experiences, and establish ways to imagine and act together. Creative work can connect to, complement, challenge, and expand the important empirical and theoretical work done in both the natural sciences and the social sciences. With this in mind, Energy in Motion invited scholars, artists, writers, organisers, and the public, to come together to share innovative scholarly work, to collaborate beyond disciplinary boundaries, and to embark on new creative co-creations. The event took place over two days, with opening events the evening prior, and featured a range of spoken paper presentations, workshops, films, exhibits, and performances responding to the following questions:
How might we understand, represent, and respond to the emotional demands of the climate crisis, across diverse cultural, geographic, and political contexts?
and
How can the arts further academic thinking, and scholars in turn support creative practitioners, towards imagining more sustainable energy futures together?
Remote presentations and digital participation were supported in most sessions.Sunday 8th June 2025
https://energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/energy-in-motion/conference-programme-2/
Monday 9th June 2025
https://energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/energy-in-motion/conference-programme-3/
Tuesday 10th June 2025
https://energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/energy-in-motion/conference-programme-4/
| Period | 8 Jun 2025 → 10 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|
| Event type | Conference |
| Degree of Recognition | International |