Cape Farewell helps us understand how climate change and culture connect

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n 2001 the artist David Buckland created the Cape Farewell project to instigate a cultural response to the climate challenge. Cape Farewell is now an international not-for-profit programme based at the University of Arts London: Chelsea, with a North American foundation based at the MaRS centre in Toronto.

David Buckland.

Working internationally, we bring creatives, scientists and informers together to stimulate a cultural narrative that will engage and inspire a sustainable and vibrant future society. Using creativity to innovate, we engage artists for their ability to evolve and amplify a creative language, communicating on a human scale the urgency of the global climate challenge.

Our complex societies have evolved dependent of fossil fuel for our energy. It is now proven that carbon dioxide and other emissions from the burning of these fuels is causing potentially devastating damage to our habitat. Our developing Cleantech industries can replace our dependency of fossil fuels and deliver a cleaner, healthier culture.

Cape Farewell asks the best of our creative minds to engage with this challenge and to build a vision for a sustainable future.

Learn more about the Cape Farewell Project here: "What does culture have to do with climate change? Everything."