2025 Climate Studio Residency - Pratt Institute (Due Apr. 15)
2025 Climate Studio Residency - Pratt Institute
Deadline: April 15th, 2025
The Climate Studio Residency is suited to artists, educators, and community organizers with a demonstrated interest in climate literacy or climate justice, and scientists working in areas related to the climate who seek to bring their ideas and passion for their work to a wider audience. While the exact forms of your public-facing works will be determined by you, the residents, we anticipate they will include the perspectives of grassroots organizations at the frontline of the climate movement; foster community around current NYC climate justice issues; and interactively employ elements of theatre, fashion, visual art, design, placemaking, architecture, and fabrication rooted in the tenets of community engagement. We, at the Climate Studio Initiative, believe that when we talk about the climate, our statements should be rooted in science and facts. Our aesthetics and ethos of public engagement draws heavily from the historic work of Beam Center and is inspired by Guerilla Science.
Preliminary Climate Studio 2025 themes (to be further developed) include:
Health: Healthy Mind + Bodies; Healthy Planet:
* Community health impacts from climate change (Increased risks of pandemics, neighborhood pollution linked to carbon-emitting activities, heating of ocean ecosystems)
* Mental health, wellbeing, and resilience
* Climate Impact on other forms of non-human life.
Infrastructure: Green Jobs, Healthy Buildings, Just Energy Transitions:
* Transportation (Impacts of public transportation linked to increasingly severe weather, relationship between public transportation and emissions reductions)
* Schooling (How climate is taught in schools, greening school infrastructure)
* Equitable Energy Transitions (Electric Buildings, Public Power & Affordable Energy)
Culture and Community: Climate Justice
* Familial connections to countries with deeper climate impacts
* Food + Agricultural systems and cultural practices
* Consumer culture (Fashion, technology, etc.) and intersections with production
The ideal candidate will have at least two years of demonstrated experience working on issues related to climate science, climate literacy, or climate justice. They will be interested in engaging in interdisciplinary, intergenerational collaboration, and bringing their work to a wider public audience. You will be collaborating with other disciplinary professionals and Climate Studio Youth Fellows from Beam Center, NYC, in one of three cohorts connected to our 2025 themes.
Residents will be provided with an honorarium of $4,000. In addition, we can provide needs-based travel support. Housing will not be provided. Space to collaborate and fabrication tools at the Pratt Institute, along with access to the project’s network of mentors and partners, will be available throughout the residency period.
Applicants must be available to attend a Co-Design workshops in New York from July 14-18, 2025 and present their work during installations / activations (either as part of the Beam Center’s summer festival on Governors Island August 15-17 or during activation dates to be confirmed between Aug -Sept). A hybrid work schedule during the production phase is anticipated. Fellows will self-select their fabrication / production roles during the co-design process and will be asked to document their involvement in public facing events to certify successful completion of the fellowship.