Lucy Sollitt (Creative Director of FutureEverything)

and Ami Clarke in conversation

 

Saturday 18th April

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As Creative Director of FutureEverything Lucy Sollitt conceived of and led Nature Directed, an initiative to pathfind creative and organisational models for working with "Nature" as an active participant and decision-maker, this included the legal appointment of Nature to FutureEverything's Board — a global first for a cultural organisation. Nature Directed responds to the ecological crises by introducing a relational and justice-oriented ecological perspective into art, technology and cultural practice.

 

Nature Directed brings together Lucy's work within the Rights of Nature movement and her commitment to fostering ecological restoration amidst hybridity, including interrogating the increasing role of technology in mediating ecological relations. The creative and theoretical underpinnings of her practice build on her notion of The Synthetic Sacred. The Synthetic Sacred examines the convergence of art and nature-based understandings of the sacred in the context of ecological crisis. Lucy proposes that this convergence can build bridges between advanced technologies and ancient relational knowledge, offering affective, place-based and values-led approaches to repairing increasingly synthetic ecologies.

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