Emily is a social anthropologist and creative practitioner. She is co-founder and Creative Director of Awel Aman Tawe (AAT). She established AAT’s arts and climate change programme and has overseen the redevelopment of Ysgol Cwmgors into Hwb y Gors. Her passion is in engaging people in climate action and she has carried out many projects to that effect. Among these, her favourites are: AAT’s Naked Renewable Energy calendar 2007 (encouraging over 70 people to take off their clothes – in the name of renewables); Sustainable Moon Mission in 2019 involving over 700 people in building a Lunar capsule where she lived as artist in residence for 2 weeks on the top floor of Pontardawe Arts Centre; and her walk across Wales (2012) during which she asked every person she met ‘3 questions about climate change’ and created verbatim poems from their answers which she has delivered at Welsh Government and other climate conferences in UK and Europe.
Emily Hinshelwood
Emily is a social anthropologist and creative practitioner. She is co-founder and Creative Director of Awel Aman Tawe (AAT). She established AAT’s arts and
