The Weather Station by Tuning Group, responds to research and data collected by the Hello Nottingham project looking at how the public feel about Climate Change. The data has been translated into a blueprint map and installation, using the weather as a way of talking about our relationship to climate. It was commissioned by Nottingham City Council and City as Lab, and produced by Broadway’s Near Now.

The Air We Breathe is an artistic investigation into Nottingham’s air quality data. The University of Nottingham’s City as Lab, Lakeside Arts and City Arts commissioned artists Rebecca Smith (Urban Projections) and Charlotte Tupper to respond creatively to data about pollution levels in Nottingham. They each produced artworks that interpreted this data, as well as documenting their creative process. The artists were chosen by a community panel.

Tuning Group is a social arts collective set up by Mo Langmuir and Samuel Collins. With a focus on shared space and the collective social experience, they work towards the disruption and expansion of existing Western paradigms, offering to rethink human-non-human relationships and envisage new models for collective storytelling with an emphasis on place.

Rebecca’s practice centres around the natural environment, and our place within it. Her process and outputs seek to reaffirm our connection to nature, with a beauty and depth of simplicity. Through a shared experience, audiences are subtly invited into action, discovering a positive reconnection with both the natural world and each other.

With a participatory practice and specialism in textiles, Charlotte Tupper coordinates projects shaped by community exchange, social connections and collaboration. Charlotte is an Associate Artist with Nottingham Contemporary and member of the international textile network ‘Stitching Together’. As a self-confessed data collector, she is interested in the legacies and relics we choose to leave behind as a means of proving one’s existence.