Description
Society is in a state of crisis as a result of phenomena related climate change. There appears to be a need to revisit societal approaches to problem solving, collaboration, and innovation. However, society is not armed with an awareness of the connection between perception and the sustainability crisis. This disconnect is a major factor in the destabilization of the environment. Sustainable change can happen when we create new narratives of social cohesion and empathy. Artists and creatives are uniquely qualified to create these through suspending disbelief and inviting others to believe in the possibility of different futures. Through phenomenological approaches, artists explore emergent properties of specific slices of the experiential whole through prolific creation of catalytic, creative prompts engaging metaphoric perception through artistic work. One example of a potential approach utilizing frameworks that serve to reorganize existing conceptual patterns in the media is organizing a replicable business structure that artists can use. A business of this kind could potentially amplify and multiply the natural capacity of artists to create socially cohesive artwork in the form of creative prompts. Multiplying the amount of artwork present in current society has the potential to foster more empathy in society, in turn fostering deeper connections to self, society, and planet. The presentation concludes with an exploration of an example hat applies the principles, theory, and sustainability frameworks into a renovation/reimagining of The Soap Factory - a Minneapolis based art fixture.