{"id":393,"date":"2014-10-14T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/?p=393"},"modified":"2015-01-08T15:36:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T15:36:26","slug":"outbreaks-of-rain-a-tipping-point-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/2014\/10\/outbreaks-of-rain-a-tipping-point-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Outbreaks Of Rain: A Tipping Point Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_394\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rain_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-394\" class=\"wp-image-394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rain_3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"rain_3\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rain_3-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rain_3-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rain_3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">kevin dooley via photopin cc<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/outbreaksofrain.wordpress.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/outbreaksofrain.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Outbreaks of Rain<\/em><\/a> is a <a title=\"http:\/\/www.tippingpoint.org.uk\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tippingpoint.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">TippingPoint<\/a> commission, which came out of <em>Weatherfronts: Climate change and the stories we tell<\/em> \u2013 a conference organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tippingpoint.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">TippingPoint<\/a> in collaboration with <a title=\"https:\/\/freewordcentre.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/freewordcentre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FreeWord<\/a> and <a title=\"http:\/\/www.spreadtheword.org.uk\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadtheword.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spread The Word<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rain is my central image, or lens if you like, for this new work, in which I also want to address the themes of uncertainty and scale \u2013 two biggies when it comes to climate change and how we conceive of and talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided to begin this commission with a participatory research process, initiating on and off-line conversations with a range of people (including children, architects, cyclists, atmospheric scientists and forecasters) to explore the science of rain; the mythology surrounding rain; the relationship between climate change and rain; how rain impacts on our individual lives and psyches; and how uncertainty and scale operate in relation to rain. I would love you to get involved, so do please feel free to <a title=\"http:\/\/outbreaksofrain.wordpress.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/outbreaksofrain.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">visit the blog<\/a> and leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p>I will blog creative responses to my research throughout September and October, and the final piece will be completed by December 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outbreaks of Rain is a TippingPoint commission, which came out of Weatherfronts: Climate change and the stories we tell \u2013 a conference organised by TippingPoint in collaboration with FreeWord and Spread The Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}