About Collaborations for Future
Collaborations for Future is a design research program established to enable and research the close collaboration between professional designers and climate scientists. The aim of the program is to create innovative commissioning models, methodologies, tools, and structures that enable creative professionals to collaborate effectively with climate scientists, ultimately addressing the urgent challenges of climate change. The program will run from June 2023 until December 2024. In this period 10 1-on-1 collaborations between a designer and scientist will be enabled, facilitated and researched.
Open call for designers
Through the Collaborations for Future open call for designers, 10 designers will be selected to work together with ten climate scientists from the collaborating research institutes. Together, they will develop methods, experiments, campaigns, or other creative outcomes that can address different climate challenges.
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Complementary to the 10 collaborations, Foundation We Are will set up a research track to draw and develop insights and tools that can be implemented by climate institutes, ministries and other (semi-)public organisations to involve the creative sector within tackling societal challenges.
Talks for Future
Project partners
Collaborations for Future is an initiative of Foundation We Are, NIOZ - the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, KNMI - the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, PBL - Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Afdeling Buitengewone Zaken/Social Design Showdown, Utrecht University, Eindhoven University of Technology and Pakhuis de Zwijger.