AnnaMadeleineRaupach_ClimateSignArchive_04

Anna Madeleine Raupach, Climate Sign Archive, 2020, augmented reality app with community contributed protest signs.

Thursday, 13 February 2025 - 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm

An active forum on superfast art and design—creative approaches to climate change that prioritize immediacy, responsiveness, and impact. How can we create solutions that drive eco-awareness, contribute to reaching net-zero, and are also sustainable?

Hear about sector-based interventions, share your own ideas and initiatives, and learn how fellow artists and designers are tackling the polycrisis. As part of the forum, we’ll have an opportunity to contribute to a participatory artwork, Signs in the Sand: Anna Madeleine Raupach's Climate Sign Archive. This work will be presented as part of Climate Action Week.

We’ll explore different approaches across our sectors and how we can collectively move the agenda forward.

Collective for Environmental Art & Design

Through exhibitions, public programming, and events like this, Manly Art Gallery & Museum aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration that addresses climate change and drives real-world change through creativity. Find out more.

Speakers 

Keynote speaker: Anna Madeleine Raupach
Anna Madeleine Raupach is a multidisciplinary artist based on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land, and a Senior Lecturer at the ANU School of Art & Design (SOA&D). Through multimedia installations and mixed media artworks her practice engages with science and technology to critically address socio-political issues enmeshed with climate change. Anna has a PhD in Media Arts from UNSW Art & Design (2014), and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from ANU SOA&D (2007). Recent projects include a 2022 Australian Network for Art and Technology Synapse Residency and a 2024 Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Youth voice: Portia Pringle
School Captain, Mona Vale Public School
Winner, 2024 Environmental Art & Design Prize, Youth category

Lightning speakers and facilitators

Julia Davis    
Multidisciplinary artist

Nila Rezaei
Co-Founder & Design Director, RK Collective / NSW Chair, Design Institute of Australia

Paul Munro
Scientia Associate Professor in Human Geography within the Environment and Society Group, UNSW Sydney

Julian Bickersteth
Founder & CEO, International Conservation Services

Josephine Bennett
Manager, Arts & Culture / Gallery Director, Northern Beaches Council

Jacqui Grove
Manager, Environmental Sustainability & Climate Change, Northern Beaches Council

Contact information

Manly Art Gallery & Museum

Location

Manly Art Gallery & Museum, 1a West Esplanade

Manly NSW 2095