About Arts and Ecology

The Global Diversity Foundation’s Arts and Ecology Programme is a space for imaginative, experimental and liberated engagement with environmental and social ecologies — through embodied practice, collective inquiry, and kincentric approaches to healing and worldbuilding.

Working with artists, researchers, activists, cultural practitioners and communities, the programme explores the intersections of land, food, water, conservation, legacies of colonialism, and social and environmental justice —  rooted in the same relational, transdisciplinary spirit that guides everything we do at GDF.

Guided by GDF’s three core themes of work – Living and Learning with the Land, Sustaining Networks of Solidarity, and Imagining Just and Abundant Futures – we develop, design and support projects that explore, challenge and bring these ideas into practice.

Arts and Ecologies in Our Work

Arts and Ecology exists simultaneously as a programme of curated events and as an evolving philosophy of practice. Through events, cultural exchanges, and community gatherings, it convenes spaces for dialogue, collective imagination and often, practical action.

Beyond these activities, it serves as an ontology: a way of seeing, relating to, and engaging with the world. This in turn informs our work, influencing how we curate encounters, navigate cultural difference, cultivate critical inquiry and develop collaborative pathways for change.

From the Harvest Festival Marrakech –– a bio-cultural festival rooted in Morocco ––  to projects that stretch across geographies and practices, our Arts and Ecology takes on many forms: research residencies, artistic projects, exhibitions, public programmes, podcasts, publications, etc. In an increasingly fragmented and disconnected world, these spaces help us rehearse and shape more just and resilient futures.