Image courtesy of JUST ART Framer Framed is partner van het gezamenlijke onderzoeksproject JUST ART
JUST ART is a six year project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and led by the University of Groningen, bringing together artists, researchers, campaigners and communities in rural and urban regions across the Kingdom of the Netherlands to cultivate diverse strategies of climate justice through artistic research and creative practice. Framer Framed is a partner of the two strands Just Practices: Centring Climate and Multispecies Justice in the Visual and Performing Arts and Just Production: Soil Ecologies and Life-Sustaining Goods.
The complexity and scale of the climate crisis can feel overwhelming. Artistic practice and artistic research can open up new ways of understanding the intersectional dimensions of this crisis so that people feel empowered to act, wherever they are. This grounded approach is central to the Just Art: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research project. From Aruba to Brabant, from the Wadden Islands to Twente and from the polders to Curaçao, JUST ART promotes climate justice in contexts where the crisis is most acutely felt, and where action is most urgently needed.
The project unfolds over the next six years (2026 – 2031) through multiple collaborative research projects delivered by partners across the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The project is structured around five core research themes alongside a strand of work focused on governance and synthesis.
The kick-off event on 5 March at Framer Framed introduces the project’s ideas, themes and plans, while creating plenty of room for conversation, collaboration and fresh inspiration among everyone involved.
About
Just Practices: Centring Climate and Multispecies Justice in the Visual and Performing Arts
This strand of the project aims to nurture a sustained commitment to climate just approaches in creative practices, with a particular focus on curating and theatre making. Through grounded research with societal partners, this research will cultivate new spaces, institutions, and practices that enable more-than-human communities to learn and create together, sharing artistic research and knowledge in the pursuit of climate justice. This research pays particular attention to responsive methods that move beyond representation to build new frameworks and modes of engagement between science and art in and beyond institutional contexts.
Just Production: Soil Ecologies and Life-Sustaining Goods
This strand of the project develops artistic and arts-based approaches to foster regenerative practices. The theme encompasses two sub-projects. The first, ‘From the Ground Up’ cultivates artistic research approaches which engage with soil as primary material, such as acting against soil harm, taking it as a prime site of multispecies conviviality, and engaging with it as a highly sophisticated regenerative system. The second, ‘Regenerative Practices for Life-Sustaining Goods’, collaborates with entrepreneurs to foster the implementation of regenerative practices. Both sub-projects use creative methods to understand how the arts, in collaboration with, and through more-than-human agents can nurture ecological and social regeneration.
JUST ART is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and coordinated by the University of Groningen.
Action Research / Ecologie / Gedeeld erfgoed / Global Art History /