Climate Immersion Fellowship:
Creative Brief Context
The feeling of futility and incomprehension of the scale of the combined challenges of climate change, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss leads to inaction. The transformational change needed to avoid looming catastrophe requires action by all individuals as well as policy makers.
Immersion aims to inform the creative community with cutting-edge climate insights to inspire compelling work that offers unique perspectives on the climate and nature crises.
At the heart of the Immersion initiative is a two year Climate Immersion fellowship programme that will see 6 successful candidates engaged in a series of activities over 2024 and 2025 including:
Workshops with climate and biodiversity experts and immersive storytelling experts
Engagement with community groups
Working retreats
Support to develop their concepts further
Funded by the second iteration of Creative Ireland’s Creative Climate Action Fund, the fellowship will accelerate concepts in an informed way; opening new avenues of creative expression around these important topics.
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 our Island. Most of our major urban centres feature waterways as a central focal point and their value for recreation and inspiration is immeasurable. However, many of our waterways are under pressure from:
Climate Change: e.g. erratic weather patterns
Biodiversity Loss: e.g. invasive species overtaking ecosystems
Environmental Degradation: e.g. pollution from industrialised farming
Successful applicants will use these sub themes to frame their application ideas.
The Immersion Fellowship Timeline
The Opportunity
We are seeking creative practitioners to commit some of their time over 2024 and 2025 to the 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 for the IMMERSION fellowship and therefore practitioners from the following (and related) disciplines across the creative industries are invited to apply:
AR/VR designers
Digital storytellers
Simulation designers
Visual narrative designers
Sound designers
Stage designers
The selected creative practitioners will be guided by a select group of climate, environmental and biodiversity experts as well as community groups and local authorities in workshops to help inform and shape their concepts; grounding them in real-world situations and a sense of place.
Bringing their unique skill sets to the initiative, they will develop their concepts into immersive experiences via working sessions with the assistance of creative technologists and technicians as well as exploring opportunities to show their work to the public. All through the initiative, the practitioners will be supported by the Immersion team.
In-person activities include:
2024
3x full day in-person expert workshops
1 x week long in-person working retreat
1 x testing and presenting activity
2025
3x full day in-person expert workshops
1 x week long in-person working retreat
1 x testing and presenting activity
All expenses relating to engagement with the initiative will be covered for the successful participants, primarily:
travel to and from workshops and meals
travel, accommodation, networking activities and meals for the retreats
relevant technologies/software with expert support.
travel, accommodation and meals and for testing/presenting duties.
The project budget does not allow for compensation for the participants’ time while involved with the initiative.
Full creative brief can be downloaded here
Information Webinar slides can be downloaded here
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