Zoe Rasbash
Pervasive Media Studio
Zoe is the Environmental Emergencies Action Researcher, co-producing an inclusive framework of climate action for the creative sector in the South West.
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Projects
![A laptop with green slime moold oozing onto the keboard.](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/project/image/2024-04-10/More%20Than%20AI%20Sandbox%20Glory%20Mold%20.jpg?h=3f173464&itok=bOTcnenW)
More Than AI Sandbox
Sandbox is a tried-and-tested methodology to bring together teams of brilliant people to test new ideas with generosity and rigour in a three month R&D.Worked on
![An image of the inside of a domed house with curved iron ribs onto which white canvas has been tautly wrapped around. Traditional Somali prints on the outside of the canvas are also visible from the inside of the house. We can see the backs of two women facing various colourful small woven structures, and a potted plant, all hanging from the ribs of the house. A microphone and lights are also visible inside the space.](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/project/image/2024-02-21/House%20of%20Weaving%20Songs%20-%20Playable%20City%20Bristol%20Jul23%20%C2%A9%20Luke%20O%27Donovan%20%28mid%20res%29%20%2827%20of%2036%29_1.jpg?h=4031aa77&itok=zR07rrE-)
Alternative Technologies: A Just Transition
This workshop series examines technologies and their past, present, and future role in climate justice (and breakdown) and explores what the alternatives could be, through a process of carefully facilitated design thinking![Garden Lab Whispers Grow, Knowle West Media Centre. Mud battery workshops. Photography by Ibi Feher.](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/project/image/2024-05-30/untitled-6830copy-2048x1365.jpg?itok=feYihh7E)
Grounding Technologies
Grounding Technologies is a pilot project exploring how creative technology can be used to support climate action.![Paul Blakemore](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/project/2019-06-03/Paul_Blakemore_treatment_green4.jpg?h=5df4432c&itok=GEAMvJoC)
Bristol+Bath Creative R+D
Bristol+Bath Creative R+D was a £6.8 million collaboration aimed at taking the Bristol and Bath cluster to the next level by forging connections, sharing knowledge and creating new opportunities.As part of Bristol and Bath Creative R+D, Zoe will be working with creative institutions, SMEs, businesses and freelancers to explore and co-develop a framework for climate action.
With a background in climate justice youth organising and policy advocacy, Zoe has campaigned at the local, national and international level for just responses to the climate crisis. She is also a writer on visual arts and the climate emergency.
She previously coordinated the UK Youth Climate Coalition international team, leading the UK youth delegation to the UN Climate Conferences pushing for climate reparations and support for climate migrants. At Amnesty International and Climate Strategies, Zoe worked to ensure international climate activism and research co-produced impactful results with those on the ground. She previously sat as youth representative on the UN Taskforce for Climate Displacement.
Motivated by the exciting opportunity at the intersection of the arts and environmental justice, Zoe is a guest climate editor for Shado-mag, co-founder of Lilith Archive and conducted her masters dissertation on film, gender and the climate emergency.