We will be sharing interesting reports, case studies and research from our pilot project in this section. Please keep coming back here to explore.
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Low Carbon Artist’s Guide
The Low Carbon Artist’s Website Guide compiled by artists by Sophy King and Heidi Nikolaisen as part of SUSTAIN, a two-year programme of professional development and artist exchange focused on developing low carbon and ecologically aware ways of producing and experiencing art supported by Castlefield Gallery and Aarhus Center for Visual Art.
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Climate Impact Study of First Hybrid Futures Exhibition Assessed
Hybrid Futures Climate Case Study: Leviathan: From the Forest to the Sea exhibition at Touchstones, Rochdale 3 June- 12 August 2023
Leviathan: From the Forest to the Sea opened at Touchstones Rochdale featuring the 8th film in Shezad Dawood’s Leviathan Cycle, plus a series of physical artworks – was the first of the Hybrid Futures branded exhibitions to open.
As part of the Hybrid Futures project, staff at Touchstones and the team at Shezad’s studio collected as much data as they could about the energy, transport and material use associated with the exhibition. This information was then analysed by Danny Chivers, the Environmental Advisor to the project, to see what could be learned about the climate impact of the show.
Read the headline results in this pdf.
Read more about Hybrid Futures and sustainabilty here.
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SUSTAIN | Low Carbon Artmaking resource list
The Low Carbon Artmaking resource list for SUSTAIN which contains links to resources about digital impacts, materials, organisations and resources.
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Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline
Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline is an art, climate justice and collaborative learning project. It brings together artists, growers, healers, agitators and engineers, as well as local community groups and arts organisations in the form of community-based research, festival and publishing. In 2022 it published a holistic co-created decarbonisation plan for the art sector and beyond.
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Decarbonisation and the Arts Consensus Statement
Decarbonisation and the Arts Consensus Statement developed as part of Sunlight Doesn’t Need A Pipeline – contains a Gallery of Potential Actions, a Map of the Social Impacts of different actions and an outline of some of the climate, health and environmental impacts of digital technologies
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Ellie Harrison Environmental Policy
Ellie Harrison launched this Environmental Policy in 2010 so that visitors to her website, people interested in her work and potential collaborators are made aware of the personal commitments she makes to reduce her carbon footprint. It provides a useful model for others wanting to reduce their individual environmental impacts.
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Gallery Climate Coalition Carbon Calculator
The Gallery Climate Coalition Carbon Calculator is a free tool designed for ease of use to provide a quick but accurate breakdown of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions, based on metrics common to most art organisations.
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Climate Crisis >> Art Action Resource Hub
An evolving hub, bringing together recordings of the Climate Crisis >> Art Action two-day symposium that took place in March 2023, alongside opportunities for local action and climate justice, and key resources shared across the two days.
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Jessica El Mal, The Water We Seek (2023), Spoken Audio Sources
A transcript of the spoken audio sources for Jessica El Mal‘s work, ‘The Water We Seek’, created for Hybrid Futures and included in both The Poetics of Water at Castlefield Gallery in 2023, and the Hybrid Futures exhibition at Salford Museum & Art Gallery in 2024.
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Hybrid Futures Information Panels
Read digital versions of the information panels from the Hybrid Futures exhibition at Salford Museum & Art Gallery. These panels explore Collective Futures, Sustainability throughout the Hybrid Futures project, and some of the key themes of the artwork and exhibition: Collaboration and co-creation, Questioning, and Climate Equity and Justice.
Click on the images below to read each panel.
Collective Futures 
Questioning 
Climate Equity and Justice Collective Futures 
What Are We Doing?
