“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.”- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
“Every barrier when it is felt as such, is at the same time crossed. For just coming up against it presupposes a movement which goes beyond it.”- Ernst Bloch
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
Recent News!
We are working with Arts for Life on eco-anxiety training and research with the Welcome to the Swamp project, where we raise awareness of wetlands and climate change – a new event in collaboration with the Ecomusicology Project soon to be announced!
We are working with Quiet Down There who run the Harriett’s Press Community Laundrette in the Open Market to do a community research project looking at community place-based arts engagement and hygiene poverty. You can read more about the project here!
We are actively promoting the Carekit for Digital Activists which we co-designed during lockdown with funding from CHASE Climate Justice Fund, please get in touch if you are interested in activist training heather@magneticideals.org.
The Magnetic Ideals research team have some availability to work on new projects, we provide affordable, accessible support for charities and community organisations looking for research and report-writing support.
Our new Creative Climate Cafe programme has now been completed, and you will be able to read our official report shortly, plus updates on new funding streams! Read more about our launch event which brought together music, activism and comedy! Also follow our Eventbrite for our free Reconnect! Project workshops which will hopefully be continuing into this April and beyond!
Magnetic Ideals are a collective of self-employed artists, researchers and activists running projects and providing support, consultancy, research and training, for organisations and individuals working in the arts for community interest and for social sustainability. We run projects that use creative and artistic ways of bringing communities together to create social change, campaign for social justice and find ways of locally and nationally challenging the climate crisis. Regarding activist work, we have provided specialist consulting and training for Students’ Unions and Research Students, and other campaigning bodies, including coaching, setting up student-led research teams, officer training, campaign support, events management, research and analysis, and running workshops for activists on collective care.
Unionising the Future Research: Never has the relationship between our Students’ Unions and Trade Unions been more important. Read more about our research project that looks to strengthen and understand relations between Trade and Students’ Unions.
We supported artists from JustLife to get their work displayed at Nesting: A Sense of Home exhibition.
One of our latest projects focuses on mapping anti-precarious worker movements… https://www.magneticideals.org/home/research/precarity/
For further information, please email heather@magneticideals.org
