Jar in Action 2025

Jar in Action (SustainAbility) project:

Sustainability issues touch our lives in many ways. FUSION is running a project where we are asking a variety of people to construct art works in the form of glass jars and their contents which encapsulate their creative response to what ‘sustainability’ means to them.

We will incorporate these jar art works into public exhibitions and research
to gain insight into perceptions around sustainability.
View our gallery below:

Want to get involved?

See the Jar in Action 2025 Google Forms here.

Instructions:

Find a glass jar.
Think about what you want to put in your jar in response to the question ‘What does sustainability mean to you?’.
Construct your jar art work.
Print out and fill in the short participant form provided.
Deliver your jar art work with the form attached to us: FAO Tom Pratt, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD. Reception is open from 8:30-16:00 Monday - Friday.

You can also join us for a creative workshop on June 18th, 2025 (4-5.30 PM at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW), where we will be building jars together.

To RSVP for the workshop, email us at [email protected].

Things to Consider:

Please be mindful that your jar will be on public display and used for research so do not include anything that you do not wish to be shared.
Your jar may be used in exhibitions over the next few months so please do not construct jars that are unstable or are likely to cause a hazard in storage or while they are being exhibited.
Please only post us jar art works that will survive being posted!
We will try to look after your jar but cannot take responsibility for any damage. If you wish to reclaim your jar once it has been exhibited we will arrange for a collection point.

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