About the Project

Climate Memories / Memorias del Clima is a collaborative transnational sound, radio, and research project by Linda O’Keeffe and Leena Lee. Working with artists, researchers, community organisations, scientists, radio producers, and members of the public, the project explores how environmental change is experienced, remembered, and transmitted through everyday life.

The project gathers personal memories of changing seasons, altered weather patterns, disappearing species, transformed landscapes, food traditions, environmental events, and shifting relationships with place. Rather than asking participants to speak directly about climate change, Climate Memories invites people to share lived experiences of environmental transformation as they have encountered it through their bodies, senses, families, communities, and daily routines.

These memories reveal forms of ecological knowledge that often remain absent from scientific datasets and policy discussions. Through storytelling, listening, and sound, the project documents how environmental change is registered through atmosphere, sensation, emotion, labour, culture, and intergenerational memory.

Climate Memories unfolds through radio broadcasts, workshops, listening events, public archive activations, field recording, artistic research, and open calls for participation. Together, these contributions form a growing international archive of lived climate experience, connecting individual memories to larger ecological transformations occurring across the world.

Working across languages, cultures, and geographical regions, the project brings together artists, researchers, community organisations, educators, environmental practitioners, and members of the public to create new ways of listening to environmental change.