Ainne Burke, MA Art & Science at Central Saint Martins in conversation Designer & Artist Alexis Tricoire at the 2015 COP21 event in Paris.
Two UAL postgraduate students went along to COP21 Paris with Professor Lucy Orta and here Ainne Burke had an opportunity to chat to environment artist Alexis Tricoire whose ‘Mud Hut’ was installed in the Grand Palais to coincide with the COP21 conference. Ainne turned this chat into a Podcast in order to share this with the Postgraduate Community on her return.
About COP21
The main objective of the annual Conference of Parties (COP) is to review the Convention’s implementation. The first COP took place in Berlin in 1995 and significant meetings since then have included COP3 where the Kyoto Protocol was adopted, COP11 where the Montreal Action Plan was produced, COP15 in Copenhagen where an agreement to success Kyoto Protocol was unfortunately not realised and COP17 in Durban where the Green Climate Fund was created.
In 2015 COP21, also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, will, for the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations, aim to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C.
Áinne Burke is an Irish artist, writer, producer and director with over thirty five years experience. She has initiated, developed, directed and produced: workshops, programs and projects to facilitate children’s and adults creativity, imaginative, curiosity and wonder in the classroom, in the home, for theater, in business, in the arts, tv broadcast, music industry, museums and installations nationally and internationally about who they are and the world around them. Áinne is currently in her first year MA Arts & Science in CSM.
Post COP21 Ainne Burke and Marta Monge (alumni MA Industrial Design) hosted a Pop Up Common Room called ‘Climate Gossip’ to report back on their experience of ArtCop 21 in Paris, and an interactive workshop about what to do if there was a flash flood at CSM. Check out their event related blog post here.