EcoArtMap: Mapping collaborations and practices of artists, climate scientists, and societal actors that coproduce knowledge on climate change

Mapping transdisciplinary art and climate science collaborations in the context of Switzerland aims to visualise diverse formats of knowledge co-creation processes regarding climate change and climate justice. The research strives to make explicit different assumptions, emotions, and perceptions of collaborating artists, climate scientists, and societal actors about the collaboration processes surrounding climate change. This understanding helps further investigate emerging practices, methods, and processes promoting epistemic justice. It specifically highlights the need to avoid instrumentalising art and creativity but focuses on an eye-level collaboration. The research draws on the concepts of transdisciplinarity, ecological art, and climate and ecological justice. Applying qualitative, participatory, and transdisciplinary research methods helps to map, inform, and visualise the used and newly developed practices and procedures. They also serve to uncover existing power dimensions in collaborations and inter- and intrapersonal dynamics. The findings suggest emerging challenges, issues, reflections, and inspirations about practices in transdisciplinary processes from which can be learned when creating future art and climate science transdisciplinary research projects. Mapping differences of perceptions about collaborations happening in the context of art, ecology, the environment, and climate change are significant on a societal, political, and scientific level to understand internal social justice issues and avoid knowledge marginalisation.