Deadline: 7 February 2024
The Climate Immersion Fellowship aims to engage the creative capital on the island, informing them with cutting-edge climate insights to create compelling work that offers unique perspectives on the climate crisis.
The Theme: Our Waterway Network
- Ireland has more than 1000 km of lakes, rivers and canals that form an interconnected network of waterways that traverse the Island. Most of the major urban centres feature waterways as a central focal point and their value for recreation and inspiration is immeasurable. However, many of the waterways are under pressure from the three sub themes of the IMMERSION initiative:
- Climate Change: e.g. erratic weather patterns
- Biodiversity Loss: e.g. invasive species overtaking ecosystems
- Environmental Degradation: e.g. pollution from industrialised farming
Benefits
The successful candidates will be immersed in climate and biodiversity focused activities for 2024 and 2025 consisting of:
- Workshops with climate and biodiversity experts and immersive storytelling experts
- Engagement with community groups
- Working retreats
- Support to develop their concepts further
Key Activities
- The key activities of the IMMERSION initiative will be carried out across 2024 and 2025 and will consist mainly of:
- Facilitated Workshops with subject matter experts will give the participants the opportunity to get informed on the subject matter and gain insights from impact at grass-roots level. Three separate workshops, one full day in duration, will be carried out in the Spring and early Summer of both 2024 and 2025 (six in total across the programme).
- Working Retreats will be week-long intensive working sessions facilitated by expert creative technologists to transform concepts into proof of concepts (POCs). They will be held in the border region in the Summer of 2024 and 2025.
Criteria
- They are seeking creative practitioners to commit some of their time over 2024 and 2025 to the Climate IMMERSION Fellowship to develop their immersive story-telling competencies through practice-based activities.
- The ability to create compelling immersive experiences that deliver new perspectives on climate and biodiversity issues is essential and therefore practitioners from the following (and related) disciplines across the creative industries are invited to apply:
- R/VR designers
- Digital storytellers
- Simulation designers
- Visual narrative designers
- Sound designers
- Stage designers
For more information, visit Immersion.
