Climate Imaginaries at Sea (2023-25) is a two-year project led by three research groups of three universities of the arts & applied sciences in Amsterdam: LAPS/The City at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (GRA), led by Patricia de Vries, the ATD Lectorate at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK), led by Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca and the Visual Methodologies Collective at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), led by Sabine Niederer. 

Climate Imaginaries Podcast #1 – Joy Mariama Smith & Michaela Harrison (click to listen): 

This first episode of the Climate Imaginaries podcast was recorded in early 2023. It took place at the invitation of Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, as she explains in the episode introduction (see transcript below). Laura invited Rajni Shah to host a conversation between Joy Mariama Smith and Michaela Harrison. All three artists had taken part in the launch of the Climate Imaginaries project in September 2022 but since both Joy and Michaela participated remotely, the three artists had not met prior to this conversation. There are some variations in sound qualities since the recording happened over zoom and was held by fluctuating internet connections. Nevertheless, we hope you will enjoy the many stories and wisdoms that come through.

Climate Imaginaries Podcast #2 – Raoni Muzho & Phoebe Osborne(click to listen):

This second episode of the Climate Imaginaries podcast was recorded over zoom in October 2023. The three artists you hear speaking in the episode, Phoebe Osborne, Raoni Muzho, and Rajni Shah, had a long slow dialogue leading up to this conversation, creating a shared map (linked below) which could be with them as they spoke. Grief and loss were present in different forms throughout the process of meeting, postponing, and then recording this conversation, and there is a strong current of grief in relation to Palestine that flows through the episode.