what we do

The Creative Climate Futures Incubator is a hybrid program connecting emerging Australian and Indonesian artists to explore speculative climate futures through community-engaged arts. Rather than presenting catastrophic visions of climate collapse, the Climate Futures Incubator invites artists to explore resilient, speculative, and collectively shaped futures through community-engaged practice. By engaging in participatory methodologies and collaborative projects, our artists will gain valuable skills that enhance their ability to address pressing environmental issues through art.

Working with House of Fibers (HONF), the program positions artistic practice as a vital tool for envisioning diverse healthy climate futures shaped by ecological interdependence.The project also has the potential to expand the profile of HONF’s artists—and Yogyakartan artists more broadly—within Australia and across the Asia-Pacific region through exhibitions and documentation of outcomes.

Running from March to August 2026, it features digital and traditional arts, residential workshops, mentorship, and peer learning. The program includes a virtual two-week session and a four-week in-person incubator in Yogyakarta with hybrid public exhibitions.

Artists will collaborate, experiment, and create innovative prototypes across various art forms—digital, tactile, performative—supported by mentors, speakers, and local partners. We take a climate justice lens to this project, recognising the sharply differentiated climate impacts and responsibilities across the region, especially for Indigenous coastal and youth.