Climate Action and Visual Culture
Robert • 8 March 2021
Climate Currency - emerges this summer.
Following a worldwide open call, Robert's work was accepted by the 'The Climate Action and Visual Culture Team' at Huddersfield University.
This is an important work by Laura Mateescu and Tabassum Ahmed, the document can read following this link:
The online Art Exhibition can be viewed using this link:
Dr. Rowan Bailey interprets Robert's work as follows:
'In relation to data and numeric scales of quantification and
statistical change, Robert Lawrence plays with the concept
of climate currency in a project with the charity Reforesting
Scotland. Lawrence has generated wooden sculptural
currency with his use of Scottish grown wood. As eco low
carbon alternatives they help us to question the materiality
of currency.7 The wooden coins are also multipurpose
serving as coasters for private dining tables, board rooms,
meeting rooms, cafes and restaurants. Strangely they evoke
a use and surplus value all in one. They are also part of a
re-planting chain, so that with each climate currency coin
sold, a tree is planted. Tree planting will begin in 2021, using
local tree stakes and environmentally sound tree protection.
This includes planting native hardwoods, creating well
managed woodlands, with selected species. This is the
magical value of the Climate Currency™ project. The more
wooden coins that are bought, and not used as part of an
exchange economy, the more trees are planted. This provokes
us to think about how currencies might be used to help
with the climate agenda in terms of the redistribution and
investment of value into material resources. So, in a way,
instead of extraction and depletion, words so commonly
used with de-forestation practices, we might start to
consider species development and native planting as
part of the growing of a new infrastructure for the future.
The wooden coins thus serve as ornaments to a cause
rather than tools in a surplus engine chain.'
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