World Weather Network

The world's weather is not what it was. We see glaciers melting and sea levels rising. Some lands are flooded and others are parched. Everywhere is heating up. 

Formed in response to the climate emergency, the World Weather Network is a constellation of weather stations set up by 28 arts agencies around the world and an invitation to look, listen, learn, and act. 

From June 2022 to June 2023, artists, writers and their communities will share observations, stories, and reflections about their local weather, creating an archipelago of voices and viewpoints. These “weather reports” took many different forms: poetry, fiction, reportage, video diaries, films, photography, podcasts and more, shared via a new online platform.

Engaging climate scientists and environmentalists alongside artists and writers, the World Weather Network brings together diverse world views and different ways of understanding the weather across multiple localities and languages.  

To access videos produced as a part of the World Weather Network, visit our YouTube channel.

Video: Your Weather Is Our Weather (2022). Thumbnail: Weather station at Enoura Observatory, Japan

Image: Children of the puppet theatre group of Gidree Bawlee. Photo: Gidree Bawlee.

Climate Dispatches from the London Review of Books

From 1 July, every other Friday for a year, the London Review of Books (LRB) will contribute a new literary dispatch about the weather in each one of the Network’s locations – reportage, essays, occasionally poetry – which will be published on the LRB blog and the WWN website alongside artwork generated by the Network, and in the monthly WWN newsletter.

Image: A park beside the Han river, 2022. Photo: Ahn Young-joon/AP/Shutterstock

Climate Conversations

A series of one-to-one conversations between leading artists and climate thinkers 

Presented by the World Weather Network, Climate Conversations brings together extraordinary international artists, designers, architects and writers with leading climate scientists, policy makers and activists, for one-to-one conversations about the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. Each conversation focuses on topics of shared interest between speakers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, and fosters pluralistic approaches to global challenges.   

View the conversations here.

Your Weather Is Our Weather

Credits

World Weather Network is supported collectively by the participating arts agencies.

The participation in the World Weather Network of Artangel; Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea; Khoj International Artists' Association, New Delhi, India: Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Philippines; and NGO and POOL, Johannesburg, South Africa  is supported by the British Council’s Creative Commissions for Climate Action, a global programme exploring climate change through art, science and digital technology.

Climate Dispatches are provided by the London Review of Books.

Artangel is generously supported using public funding by Arts Council England, and by the private patronage of The Artangel International Circle, Special Angels, Guardian Angels, and The Company of Angels.

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