20.500.12556/DiRROS-30305 Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations This paper argues for an integrative approach to sustainability transformations, one that reconnects body and mind, that fuses art and science and that integrates diverse forms of knowledge in an open, collaborative and creative way. It responds to scholarship emphasizing the importance of connecting disparate ways of knowing, including scientific, artistic, embodied and local knowledges to better understand environmental change and to foster community resilience and engagement. This paper draws on the experience of an arts-based project in Lisbon, Portugal, and explores embodied and performative practices and their potential for climate change transformations. It puts forward and enlivens an example, where such forms of engaging communities can provide new insight into how equitable, just and sustainable transformations can come about. The process involved a series of interactive workshops with diverse arts-based methods and embodied practices to create performative material. From this process, a space emerged for the creation of meaning about climate change. Three key elements stood out in this process as being potentially important for the emergence of meaning-making and for understanding the impact of the project: the use of metaphors, embedding the project locally, and the use of creative, embodied practices. This furthers research, suggesting that the arts can play a critical role in engaging people with new perspectives on climate change and sustainability issues by offering opportunities for critical reflection and providing spaces for creative imagination and experimentation. Such processes may be important for contributing to the changes needed to realize transformations to sustainability. climate change experiential learning arts-based approach art and climate inspiration meaningmaking embodiment imagination podnebne spremembe izkustveno učenje umetniško zasnovani pristopi umetnost in podnebje navdih ustvarjanje pomena utelešenje domišljija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik © The Author(s) 2021, corrected publication 2021 Znanstveno delo 2026-06-19 08:24:43 2026-06-19 08:24:43 2026-06-20 03:51:45 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 Str. 687–699 iss. 2 Vol. 17 2022 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2022-01-01 502.131.1 1862-4065 10.1007/s11625-021-01000-2 282186243 26-06-19-282186243-Bentz.pdf 26-06-19-282186243-Bentz.pdf 1 3C3C1E2B9F14CBDF10A68FF8DF9FC049 f14da771182b5d146884df71536152144e02c5bd41a1aa3618e4072ba589b779 481300a4-6b9f-11f1-be3d-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=45960 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-021-01000-2 1 2f622f8a-6b9f-11f1-be3d-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=45959 Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper / Centro di Ricerche Scientifiche Capodistria 0 0 0