The Climate Mending Lab
The Climate Mending Lab is a collaborative space that brings together artists, practitioners, scientists, and humanists to address locally-situated problems posed by our changing biosphere.
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Our co-lab is grounded in the methodology of mending, a historical skill and craft-centered practice that is rooted in the creativity and power of care in relation. In mending, we see a capacity for sustained and joyful life, even amid climate catastrophe. Mending begins with our bodies, and challenges our minds to face our changing world.
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We currently have two active project at the mending lab. Read on to learn more.
THE ECO UPSIDE-DOWN:
a disability and uncommon methods co-lab
Who We Are
The Eco Upside-Down Lab is a space of experimentation where self-identified disabled people (and those who want to do things differently) experiment with, document, and make legible ways of knowing and engaging our changing biosphere that depart from the able-bodied norms that have grown weary during the last 300+ years. Some of our methods document past practices, while others are aspirational and reach into a yet unknown future.
More Soon. . .
Become a collaborator
Do you want to join us? If we can make it possible, we will!
Grief Stories +
Lessons in Longing
Living in a world of radical biospheric change requires a deep orientation toward loss. This workshop/studio space faces the challenges of climate change through the documentation of loss and longing, collective mourning, and the building of grief rituals.
We document what is possible in the face of grief, and together envision who we might become in the face of our wildest longings. More to come.