Climate CATCH Lab Oration 2025

This year’s Climate CATCH Lab oration, by Angharad Wynne-Jones, Facilitator of Creative Climate, explores how art and culture can support the transformational systemic change we need in response to the greatest public health challenge of our time: climate change. 

Climate change is more than a data point, it’s a public health emergency, disrupting ecosystems, communities and the social fabric that sustains collective wellbeing. The forces behind it – colonialism, extractive capitalism, hyper-individualism – have also eroded the values we need to adapt and thrive. So how do we reimagine the systems that sustain life? 

Angharad Wynne-Jones, Facilitator of Creative Climate, Australia’s First Nations and artist-led climate and arts peak body, is hosted by Professor Kathryn Bowen, Deputy Director at Melbourne Climate Futures, to explore how storytelling, creative research and collaborative cultural practice can reframe climate narratives and expand the possibilities for health and justice. 

You’ll hear insights from four consortium arts organisations working on arts and cultural interdisciplinary projects: Green Music Australia, A Climate for Art, Centre for Reworlding, and Pvi Collective, who are leading interdisciplinary projects that centre care, reweave knowledge systems and engage with ecological repair. 

Join us to explore how collective creativity and cultural leadership can move us beyond metrics and toward systemic change.