Remaining competitive and meeting regulatory and reputational challenges while grasping the opportunities that climate change is already presenting, needs profound transformation. culture/SHIFT for business is a year-long, part-time participatory programme introducing businesses to achieving this change through creative approaches.

Designed for teams at board or senior management level, this four-stage programme is tailored to unlock your business’s journey to net zero. Over the year, you’ll gain different knowledge, resources and ways of working to boost your creative thinking capabilities, progress your ESG targets and remodel business as usual.

• Anchoring – your senior staff will understand and agree project objectives and scope
• Recruiting – we’ll provide you with the most appropriate creative practices, either from within Creative Carbon Scotland or by engaging the right artist(s)
• Developing your action plan – working with our creative practitioners, you’ll identify key stakeholders along with blockages and problems, resolutions and opportunities, and set out the processes and activities that will enable your business to move forward. Previous clients’ development work included:
  • board and staff of a major public body participating in interactive workshops to co-design a strategic climate emergency and sustainability plan
  • property companies, architects, planners, engineers and communities working with embedded artists to overturn existing planning and design approaches to respond to climate change in European cities
  • a consortium of local authorities, universities and transport providers collaborating with an artist to elicit different ways of thinking, unlock creativity and expand the range of partners and voices
• Evaluating happens iteratively throughout so that your action plan improves continuously

Creative Carbon Scotland (CCS) has forged a reputation as one of the country’s leading arts and sustainability charities.

Since 2011, we’ve grown from one person working with arts organisations on carbon reduction to a 13-strong team pioneering ways to support individuals and organisations across Scotland’s arts and culture sector to be sustainable themselves, and to lead and influence creative climate action in their communities. We are experienced in partnering these informed practitioners with non-arts organisations that are looking to invigorate their climate response.

Through an approach that can be both provocative and unconventional, our consultancy equips public institutions, local and national government bodies, and community-led organisations to thrive in a climate-changed future. CCS embeds creative practitioners – including theatre directors, filmmakers and artists – into client organisations to facilitate new ways of thinking about how to address challenges and opportunities relating to the climate emergency. This helps clients identify their net-zero ambitions, enabling us to co-develop the client’s organisational climate strategy and implementation plan.

Our unique expertise, knowledge and experience in initiating or leading innovative regional, national and international projects and partnerships have attracted support and recognition from the Scottish Government, Creative Scotland and EU agencies.