Laura Sommer

Norwegian University of Science and Technology | NTNU · Department of Psychology

Art has always been a mirror for society, and especially activist artists aim to provoke change in societies. This chapter presents three influential pieces of environmental art that have both a high degree of political intention, as well as a relatively high level of disruption. In connection with these examples, research on art perception and the...

This paper suggests and tests a psychological model of environmental art perception and subsequent support for climate change policies. The model is based on findings from art perception and environmental psychology, which indicate that the response of the viewer to the artwork is (1) first an emotional reaction, which can be positive and/or negati...

Environmental artists have risen to the challenge of communicating the urgency of public action to address environmental problems such as air pollution and climate change. Joining this challenge, the immersive artwork Pollution Pods (PPs) was created through a synthesis of knowledge from the fields of environmental psychology, empirical aesthetics,...

Environmentally themed art is increasingly addressed in research as a means to raise awareness of environmental problems and motivate proenvironmental behavior. However, as researchers begin to systematically study environmental art, influencing factors must be addressed—for example, the effect of presenting contextualizing information. In the pres...