Climate Ecologies: Responses to the Panicocene is an exhibition developed by artist–researchers at the University of Huddersfield’s School of Arts and Humanities (UK). The exhibition explores how creative practice can make sense of data, evidence, and lived experience related to climate change and human mobility. Working across photography, architecture, video, sound, installation, and sculpture, the contributors translated research insights into visual and spatial forms that evoke emotion and reflection.
The exhibition responds to the work of Dr. Elena Giacomelli, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and Visiting Researcher at Columbia Climate School, Center for Integrated Earth System Information. Giacomelli’s concept of the Panicocene reframes the Anthropocene as a condition of collective anxiety about environmental breakdown, and asks how societies respond emotionally and politically to that unease. Her research has inspired collaborations between scientists and artists to bring climate data and evidence into public, sensory, and participatory forms.
In this talk, Dr. Giacomelli and the Climate Ecologies artist team will discuss their exhibition and how it evolved from Panicocene research, sharing their processes of transforming complex research themes into artistic works. They will reflect on what this collaboration reveals about the role of creative practice in communicating climate evidence, fostering dialogue, and reimagining research as art.
