JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research 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, the project aims to cultivate diverse strategies of climate justice through artistic research and creative practice.
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 project. From Aruba to Brabant, from the Wadden Islands to Twente, and from the polders to Curaçao, JUST ART will promote climate justice in contexts where the crisis is most acutely felt, and where action is most urgently needed.
JUST ART will unfold over the next six years (2026-31) through multiple collaborative research projects delivered by partners across the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The project is structured around five core research themes (see below) alongside a strand of work focused on governance and synthesis.
We will be advertising ten PhD positions across the project at the start of 2026.
At the start of 2026 the project team will develop a new website that seeks to enact climate just approaches through its design and functionality.
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