SCIN Conference 2025, Museum of the Future, Dubai: Artistic Practices as Environmental Research

At the SCIN Conference 2025, hosted across the Museum of the Future, Abu Dhabi University, and Istituto Marangoni Dubai, Carolina Lio — Director of Looking Forward — presented her paper Artistic Practices as Environmental Research.

In her presentation, she explored how creative practices can serve as catalysts for ecological restoration and social change, drawing on case studies such as CLIMAVORE by Cooking Sections. The paper introduced, for the first time, the upcoming project Field Hospital by Andrew Merritt, which Looking Forward is proudly curating. Field Hospital is a long-term, collaborative project using art, science, and community knowledge to heal landscapes impacted by climate crisis and biodiversity loss bringing together artists, scientists, and local communities. The two first iterations of the project will launch in the next few months in England and Mexico.