Warming Up On Tour

Around the time of the international climate summit (COP) in November 2025, climate will be in the spotlight in every province with “Warming Up on Tour”. The working group matches an artist with a scientist. They then work together to make a local climate story tangible and relatable and present it in a local cultural centre. All these climate stories together form The (Climate) Story of the Netherlands.

In the Warming Up on Tour project, the KIN Art Working Group is investigating how art can contribute to the transition to a climate-proof society. Warming Up on Tour is a research project with a concrete outcome, in which different ways of collaboration between scientists and artists are explored, monitored and reflected upon. The idea for the tour came from the KIN Pact working group Art and Science, which was awarded the KIN Pact Network Grant in the first round last year. The working group is developing the concept, the method and the formation of the duos.

About Warming Up

We Are Warming Up. Just like the rest of the world. But what does that mean? And what can we do about it? We Are Warming Up presents and produces art and media projects around the climate issue. Because the cultural sector brings people together and knows better than anyone how to touch the public’s heart with music, stories and images. We Are Warming Up is an initiative of Stichting Impact Makers and Tolhuistuin. Since 2020, we have been organising the Warming Up Festival every autumn. Warming Up On Tour is a spin off of the festival and is developed by Impact Makers together with RADIUS, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst en Ecologie, Foundation We Are and the University of Applied Science Rotterdam.