ABSTRACT
This is an account of how the practitioners in Climate Museum UK (CMUK) aim to detoxify and regenerate culture by curating and gathering responses to the Earth crisis and designing trauma-sensitive ‘activations’. The Earth crisis is described as the ‘Traumasphere’, using the term of eco-psychologist Zhiwa Woodbury, whereby the planet's systems and all its inhabitants are traumatised from the abuses and disruptions of colonial, industrial and agricultural activities. The principles that underpin the practices of CMUK are outlined in this case study to signpost ways that heritage organisations can be agents for imaginative expansion, to support people to see systemic harms and the potential of regenerative change.
