Art, Science & Technology Collaboration

Poor science communication is still damaging climate politics today. We think the fix — building science-aware societies and citizen scientists — is a logical next step. But science itself has a democratic-access problem, much like climate risk does. We're researching whether art, which faces a parallel funding bottleneck, can help open both up.

• · Weak science communication still actively shapes climate politics — the fix is building science-aware societies and citizen scientists, not just clearer messaging
• · Science itself has a structural access gap, similar to who holds power in the climate crisis — access to producing and shaping science is unevenly distributed
• · Art faces a parallel bottleneck: funding gatekept by a small group of buyers and institutions, shaping which work gets made and who it reaches
• · Technology is an especially interesting, unresolved third element — it has both a profit-extraction history and a public-good history, so its role here is a genuine open question
• · This is an active research hypothesis, not a running program — we're not claiming a collaboration with Leonardo/ISAST or any specific institution