About C.A.R.E
Climate Arts for Resilient environments was founded by Artist, SylvIa Grace Borda, & Health Innovator,
Dr Ann Elizabeth Borda to activate people and spaces BY ADDING BIODIVERSITY & HEalthy place-making TO URBAN AND RURAL SPACES
About the founders
Ann sits on the Research and Policy Committee of the Climate and Health Alliance (caha.org.au) and has contributed to a National Strategy Framework on Climate, Health and Well-being for Australia.
She is also a certified Health Informatician and Hon. Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Medical School where she is involved in participatory health research and citizen-led approaches to healthy ageing and healthy cities.
Ann recently completed a Certification in Sustainable Development at St Andrews University (UK) in which she examined the intersections across human and environmental health and impact assessment. She has led a number of government-funded initiatives in research in education and research in the UK, Canada and Australia with key interests in the impact of environmental and technological factors on health and well-being.
Sylvia is a member of a growing field of artists tackling cultural policy through the visual arts. She is a sought-after and respected voice at the forefront of culture-led and social economic as well as community development and engagement projects in Canada and the UK.
Sylvia's practice is increasingly focused on becoming a designer of public and collaborative spaces as well as acting as a social innovator-architect. She is additionally recognized as an arts researcher and architectural advocate for the built environment. Sylvia recently spoke at the British Council’s ‘Absorbing Modernity’ Venice Biennale round table in Northern Ireland and at the Glasgow Lighthouse ‘Recasting Modernism seminar’ on the topic of how the arts can be a platform from which to chronicle and reflect on regional Modernism and regeneration.
Sylvia has also contributed articles for AAI:Building Material, Photography &the Artist's Book, and Banff New Media Institute Dialogues, among other publications. She exhibits internationally and her public artworks have been reviewed in journals, such as Canadian Architect, Architecture Today, RIBA, and AJ, to name a few.
Contact sylvia@climatearts.ca For more about her artwork see www.sylviagborda.com
Ann sits on the Research and Policy Committee of the Climate and Health Alliance (caha.org.au) and has contributed to a National Strategy Framework on Climate, Health and Well-being for Australia.
She is also a certified Health Informatician and Hon. Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Medical School where she is involved in participatory health research and citizen-led approaches to healthy ageing and healthy cities.
Ann recently completed a Certification in Sustainable Development at St Andrews University (UK) in which she examined the intersections across human and environmental health and impact assessment. She has led a number of government-funded initiatives in research in education and research in the UK, Canada and Australia with key interests in the impact of environmental and technological factors on health and well-being.
Sylvia is a member of a growing field of artists tackling cultural policy through the visual arts. She is a sought-after and respected voice at the forefront of culture-led and social economic as well as community development and engagement projects in Canada and the UK.
Sylvia's practice is increasingly focused on becoming a designer of public and collaborative spaces as well as acting as a social innovator-architect. She is additionally recognized as an arts researcher and architectural advocate for the built environment. Sylvia recently spoke at the British Council’s ‘Absorbing Modernity’ Venice Biennale round table in Northern Ireland and at the Glasgow Lighthouse ‘Recasting Modernism seminar’ on the topic of how the arts can be a platform from which to chronicle and reflect on regional Modernism and regeneration.
Sylvia has also contributed articles for AAI:Building Material, Photography &the Artist's Book, and Banff New Media Institute Dialogues, among other publications. She exhibits internationally and her public artworks have been reviewed in journals, such as Canadian Architect, Architecture Today, RIBA, and AJ, to name a few.
Contact sylvia@climatearts.ca For more about her artwork see www.sylviagborda.com
Image: Proposal for a water pump station to be redesigned as a 'boat house.' The top floor houses a community centre and arts studio.
A key ethos of C.A.R.E is to simultaneously enhance the environment, increase ecological diversity, provide a venue for learning, and stimulate interests in creating biologically enhanced environments — as a way to address a variety of issues from the perspective of green house gas emissions. By nature of C.A.R.E’s functional utility to increase biodiversity in urban landscapes - the artwork becomes an eco-activity that may itself also overlap into disciplines from architecture and urban design to mechanical engineering and environmental sciences. C.A.R.E’s interdisciplinary result has the effect of both enhancing the level of innovation about ecological development and broadening an audience’s understanding of both art and eco-sustainability.