About

Climate House is a soon-to-launch cultural institution × think tank staging art, culture, and policy interventions for a changing climate. Our arts and cultural platforms emphasize policy opportunities—and bring them to life.

WHY?

Policy shapes the conditions of our daily lives, but we often experience those conditions as something decided for us. As social and ecological conditions change, policy offers an important way to respond—and promising opportunities already exist to do so.

Art has long facilitated the exchange of ideas and cross-cultural exploration. Arts and cultural platforms can bring policy into view in ways that help people understand and experience it differently. While a policy concept can be explained on paper, giving a policy opportunity material, social, or cultural form can demonstrate how it might operate in the real world—and begin to cultivate the conditions for its realization.

For example, a public art installation could also restore wetlands to address water scarcity, or incorporate a solar-powered street lamp to help maintain access to power during outages, freeing up resources for other public needs. In this way, arts and culture can go beyond communicating policy: they can help develop, test, and enact it.

HOW?

Our projects may take the form of research, exhibitions, installations, commissions, sonic works, media projects, culinary experiences, and other forms of programming. Each initiative is developed in conversation with policy instruments, while also serving as a vehicle for them.

Wherever possible, we embed economic, legal, policy, and material interventions into the artwork or initiative itself, allowing the work to participate directly in the conditions it explores. This might mean creating a shared-revenue framework that supports the cultural and policy ecosystem surrounding the work; directing royalties from a soundscape toward ecosystem protections; facilitating a program using a policy framework like participatory budgeting, where residents can gain experience deciding how a portion of the budget; or commissioning an artwork that involves ecological restoration.

Our work is made possible through collaborations with artists and cultural workers, cultural institutions and platforms, policy organizers and institutions, academic and educational partners, researchers, community organizations, and philanthropic support. We are interested in what becomes possible when these perspectives do more than meet in conversation and can begin to shape the work itself.

We are preparing to launch inaugural programs in late 2026, beginning in Los Angeles.