Environmental

Ling’s work explores how communities can make sense of and act on the climate crisis together through intervention in food systems, air quality, growing practices and urban ecology. The multi-year Low Carbon Chinatown initiative explores climate action in food systems by collaborating with scientists, designers, East and Southeast Asian communities, cultural organisations and local authorities, presenting the work through public banquets, supper clubs, and a series of climate toolkits including a digital cookbook to make the carbon footprint of food tangible. Another body of work on air pollution uses wearable sensors and machine learning as citizen toolkits to help people make sense of and act on air quality issues individually and collectively. A third series turns growing into a collective act, with communities nurturing plants and assembling large-scale living artworks together. A fourth thread extends this participatory approach beyond the human, giving voice and agency to the more-than-human world within climate decision-making, inviting people to weigh climate decisions alongside the interests of other species.