Yale Landscape Lab
​May 2022
​A project of the Yale Schwarzman Center, Yale School of Public Health,
Faultline Ensemble, ​Clear Creek Creative and others

​This project of the Yale Schwarzman Center and Yale School of Public Health's Humanities, Arts and Public Health Practice at Yale Initiative uses theater to apply the lessons of Covid-19 to the climate crisis. This original play was first performed outdoors on an overgrown permaculture site on Yale's West Campus in Orange, CT in May 2022. It took place in conjunction with a touring performance of Kentucky-based Clear Creek Creative's Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man, a story of resource extraction and land domination in rural Appalachia.

Supported by the Yale Schwarzman Center, the Burrows Wellcome Fund, the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale Environmental Humanities Program, the project is building an ensemble of artists and public health students to create this roaming, site-specific performance. The play weaves together letters from climate scientists about the emotional impact of studying climate change, compiled by Australian science communicator Joe Duggan, stories of long-range nuclear safety communication, and experiences of health and climate communication during crisis. In drawing on the emotional experience of frontline communicators in these acute and chronic crises, we hope to use empathy and storytelling to communicate the urgent realities of climate change.

We are currently gathering ideas for the next stage of this project. Have ideas to share? Contact us at [email protected], or visit the Contact page.