Cracked earth painting showing the impacts of climate change and accompanying collages representing the energy transition and energy poverty [2022]


By:

Katherine Mahoney


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For part of the assessment at the annual PDAS seminar held as part of the PhD in Environment and Sustainability at NOVA School of Science and Technology, the students were challenged to prepare a creative work which represented their PhD. Katherine's PhD focuses on the intersections of climate change, energy transition and energy poverty policies in Portugal. She therefore choose to represent climate change by painting an image of cracked earth and to create two collages, one of which showed the energy transition in progress and another which represented the continued struggles of the energy poor despite the solutions the energy transition provides. Both collages retain the cracked earth line pattern, bringing consistency across the artistic representation.