Challenge being addressed

  1. To set up a dialogue between historical and contemporary instructional images, texts, and sounds of warnings for creating an interdisciplinary framework examining the ways in which these can reciprocally inform, resonate, and provoke one another.
  2. To develop a new methodology across art and warning research through co-creative and collaborative workshops that address questions of risk mapping, emergency communication, and localised, effective, accessible instructions.
  3. To evaluate, consolidate, and disseminate these findings through practice-led research outputs.

 

Research impact

Scoring Warnings seeks to engage art audiences in warning research and preparedness strategies, devising imaginative and artistic methods to generate effective and accessible instructions for a more resilient future, and highlight the importance of early warnings for all. Ultimately, this research will contribute to the necessary groundwork for initiatives such as the UN’s ‘Early warnings for all’, facilitating effective collaborative methods to help local governments, communities, and individuals at risk gain the knowledge and means to take preemptive early actions.

 

Funding

Scoring Warnings is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

 

Project duration

1 August 2025 - 31 July 2028.

 

Project team and collaborators

  • Aura Satz, Royal College of Art
  • Irene Revell, Royal College of Art
  • Francesca Laura Cavallo, Royal College of Art
  • Carina Fearnley, UCL
  • Ilan Kelman, UCL
  • Claire Allerton, East Gallery
  • Carolina Jimenez, Hangar
  • Matt Lawrence, 3sided Cube
  • Phil Owen, Arnolfni
  • Marco Concepcion Raba, Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction
  • Valentine Umansky, Tate.
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