JUST ART brings together researchers, artists, campaigners, and communities in rural and urban regions across the Kingdom of the Netherlands to address climate injustice and take urgent action together to shape more just futures.

Ongoing research projects and works in progress

Learn more about the work of the PhDs, postdocs, and researchers in the six JUST ART research themes

Translations

How can artistic research bring scientific and Indigenous knowledge into dialogue, navigate tensions between different ways of knowing, and open new perspectives on climate justice?

JUST ART Framework

The JUST ART Framework provides a lens, a roadmap, and concrete strategies to raise awareness of and develop art-driven actions toward climate justice.

Art and Life-Sustaining Goods

Through artistic and arts-based approaches, this project helps shaping conditions for regenerative production of life-sustaining goods, helping entrepreneurs restore nature and support communities.

Bio-Design and Bio-Art for Everyone

Er is geen kunst aan (There is no skill involved) designs training and professional-development material for secondary education aimed at cross-curricular work with bio-based materials.

Coastal Matters

How can attending to the lives of coastal entities, such as seaweed, wool, and silt, reshape imaginaries of just material transitions?

Curating Multispecies Justice

Within the broader theme of artistic research and climate justice, this doctoral project investigates curatorial practices and multispecies justice, with a particular focus on museums and cultural spaces in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Meet JUST ART’s researchers, artists, and societal partners


Discover key case studies in art and climate justice

This growing collection of articles situates JUST ART’s research in the context of important legal, artistic, and curatorial precedents.

Explore climate justice on the ground

Artistic research into climate justice takes place across many different locations within and beyond the Netherlands. Rather than map hubs of research in a traditional cartographic form, this dynamic atlas highlights some key locations in the pursuit of climate justice and connects them to JUST ART’s research.

Leuven, Belgium Utrecht Landsmeer Tilburg Enschede Delft Terschelling Assen Waddinxveen Manchester, United Kingdom Deventer Malden Leeuwarden Willemstad, Curaçao Lochem Oisterwijk Groningen Kingdom of the Netherlands Wadden Sea Aruba Curaçao Greenland Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands Vieques, Puerto Rico Dorset, United Kingdom Hemweg Power Plant in Westpoort Arapaho Glacier, United States Manono, Democratic Republic of the Congo Zone Rouge (Red Zone), France Bonaire Amsterdam Fries Veenweidegebied Lutkemeerpolder