Cultural Weather Seminar Relational
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Cultural Weather Seminar Relational. Practice and the Conditions for Collaborative Climate WorkSeminar and Participatory ‘BILYA-thon’ Workshop
Climate action unfolds within cultural and relational conditions that shape collaboration, knowledge recognition, and long-term sustainability. Referred to here as cultural weather, these often-invisible dynamics are frequently undervalued in climate research and policy, yet they play a decisive role in shaping collaborative climate work across disciplines and institutions. Drawing on over twenty years of transdisciplinary practice across art, culture, climate, and social justice, Dr Jen Rae (Centre for Reworlding and Creative Climate) explores how relational practice functions within complex research and policy environments. The seminar reflects on the role of artists and cultural practitioners as facilitators of collaboration, holders of context, and stewards of long-term relationships, particularly in settings marked by disciplinary silos, short funding cycles, and extractive research models. The seminar introduces BILYA, a relational mapping platform grounded in Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property principles. Together, the keynote and workshop invite participants to reflect not only on what climate work they do, but how they work, and how attending to cultural weather can strengthen the conditions for meaningful and collaborative climate futures critical for the wellbeing our future generations and relations. Workshop participants are encouraged to bring a laptop and copy of their CV or resumé.
Date
Thursday 26 February 2026 10:30 AM - 2:00 PM (UTC+08)Location
ECU City campus
500 Wellington Street, Building 1, Level 7, Room 716, Perth WA 6000
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