Exploring the The Living Climate Impact Framework
Info, At a Glance:
Exploring the The Living Climate Impact Framework
Tues Mar 3rd 2026, 5pm - 6:30pm EST
Online, Free
Facilitator: Emma Bugg, Interdisciplinary PhD Candidate, Dalhousie University
Detailed Info About this Workshop
The Living Climate Impact framework was developed in collaboration with arts-sector-council CreativePEI over a two-year research initiative. Mass Culture’s Research in Residence: Arts Civic Impact project placed Emma Bugg as Researcher in Residence with CreativePEI where, through interviews and a Delphi study with CreativePEI stakeholders, over 50 impact indicators were generated and compiled into a framework to explore CreativePEI’s role and impact in pursuing environmental sustainability.
In this workshop, attendees will receive an introduction to the framework and participate in discussions related to its benefits, usability, and limitations. This workshop will open discussion about further evolution of the framework and will include hands-on testing using the framework’s 50+ indicators.
This session will be offered in English only. The full Living Climate Impact Framework is available in English and French.
Workshop Top Takeaways:
How can we navigate challenges of measuring qualitative impact indicators?
What elements improve the usability of impact frameworks for arts organizations?
Emma Bugg (she/her) is an Interdisciplinary PhD candidate at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Emma’s thesis explores how the burgeoning field of Sustainability and the Arts (SATA) can be more clearly conceptualized and structurally supported to strengthen its scholarly coherence and transformative potential. Emma sits on the Research Working Group for Mass Culture, a Canadian arts research organization, and serves as Co-Lead of the Environmental Resilience Research Cluster of The Arts Impact Partnership. For her Master’s, Emma participated in Mass Culture’s Research in Residence: Arts Civic Impact project, where she developed the Living Climate Impact Framework through a research residency with arts sector council CreativePEI. The framework explores questions that serve to expand arts organization’s understanding of their environmental impact beyond biophysical indicators. Emma also works as the coordinator of the Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures Art Collective, a collective of artists enhancing research activities through Inuit-led artmaking, and as a Research Assistant on Ărramăt, a research project supporting Indigenous health and wellbeing through Indigenous knowledges of environmental stewardship.