Créateur.ices urgence climat

Créateur.ices Urgence Climat brings together the perspectives of artists, designers, and scientists to foster the emergence of new ways of thinking and concrete actions to combat the environmental crisis we face. This book stems from the conferences and podcasts held at the École nationale des arts décoratifs in 2022. These gatherings facilitated the exchange of artistic, scientific, anthropological, and philosophical practices by confronting them with major contemporary issues: habitat, eco-mobility, biodiversity, inclusion, and eco-feminism.

Artists are like shamans: through their vision, they reveal the narratives of the future, giving them form and voice through evocative expressions. Faced with resource depletion, it is urgent to rethink production methods in a circular and regenerative way—through eco-design, reuse, and biomaterials.

As cultural actors, contributing to collective action is essential—reimagining public space (greening, cohabitation, eco-mobility), proposing solutions to real-world challenges in rural contexts, and addressing the increasing vulnerability of architectural spaces to extreme and unpredictable climates. These are some of the critical challenges we must confront.

This book offers interdisciplinary knowledge to lay the foundation for societal transformation, following in the footsteps of Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss and his concept of deep ecology. It reflects the ongoing metamorphoses, both intellectually and practically, through conversations that call for action and new ways of inhabiting the world.

With contributions from:
Kader Attia (artist), Thijs Biersteker (artist), Rossella Biscotti (artist), Meriem Bouamrane (environmental economist), Valérie Cabanes (jurist), Nicola Delon (architect), Tim Ingold (anthropologist), Eva Jospin (artist), Irene Kopelman (artist), Michael Marder (philosopher), Isa Melsheimer (artist), Albert Moukheiber (neuroscientist and psychologist), Ernesto Neto (artist), Rimini Protokoll (theater collective), Noémie Sauve (artist), Tino Sehgal (artist), Richard Sennett (sociologist), Agnès Sinaï (essayist), Benjamin van Wyk de Vries (professor of volcanology).