Recommended ReadsNovember 23rd, 2021
Creativity is the real winner of COP26
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You’d need to have had your head buried in quicksand to have missed the recent COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. World leader fails aside, I found a few bright sparks of hope in the creativity of citizens and organisations from around the world. Which reaffirmed my belief that disruptive and creative visual storytelling in public spaces is a critical, powerful and inspiring tool for change.
In the European arena, Brandalism is an organisation on a mission to confront the communications strategies of big polluters, by continuing to subvert and create platforms for the creative industry to help itself change. In a more understated approach, design agency Raw Colour has launched these wearable talking points around climate change — literally warming your body while the planet heats up.
Locally, Extinction Rebellion Melbourne took to the streets with a “koala funeral”, including an impressively horrifying four metre high mechanical koala skeleton. Its final roars are imprinted on my mind in a way that only immersive performance art can achieve.
So, this week I’m feeling positive there is a future even more creative. And, that there are growing networks of disruptive innovators telling new stories in compelling ways.