Can climate art help save the world?
Penguins fight for survival on the last ice mountain, frothing waves rise to terrifying heights and a grim lion-woman gazes dispassionately at Colin the Camel struggling across a desert strewn with skeletons and debris, to the sound of dull metallic crashes and disembodied voices. Not the usual paraphernalia of a school foyer in South East London perhaps, but set secondary school students an art project on the theme of climate change and, apparently, this is what you can expect. This grand installation, entitled ‘Some Like It Hot’, was unveiled at the green-thinking Charter School in Southwark on Monday 20th July. It is the seedbed project for the global online climate change initiative ‘Cool it Schools’ – a website launched in June allowing people all over the world to showcase their projects on climate change, sharing their concern and ideas for the environment. Cool it Schools is the brainchild of artist, lecturer and mother Jane Langley, who was struck by the idea almost a year ago
