What would happen if the development, running and all the activities associated with a major art center were guided by an energy budget and not just by a financial one? Art and science come together at the Santa Mònica Arts Centre in Barcelona to to raise awareness of climate change. The work by artist and researcher Joana Moll proposes a 50% reduction in the exhibition’s energy use. With our circular metrics team, we have calculated the indicators (lighting, air conditioning, mobility of speakers and public…) to assist in the decision-making process of the work.

Our colleague Anna Aymerich, who has managed the day-to-day running of the project, says that ” collaborating with the cultural and artistic sector has allowed us to make visible a part of the environmental quantification and, consequently, to reflect and ask ourselves what we can do as a society to make a change and reduce our environmental impact”.

“The role that culture has is that it can make any aspect very visible and, in this case, it can help to establish new social and cultural interactions to make environmental change possible” – Joana Moll

Do you want to know more? Read here the interview that Régine Debatty (founder of We Make Money Not Art) has published on her blog.