This paper argues for an integrative approach to sustainability transformations, one that reconnects body and mind, that fuses art and science and that integrates diverse forms of knowledge in an open, collaborative and creative way. It responds to scholarship emphasizing the importance of connecting disparate ways of knowing, including scientific, artistic, embodied and local knowledges to better understand environmental change and to foster community resilience and engagement. This paper draws on the experience of an arts-based project in Lisbon, Portugal, and explores embodied and performative practices and their potential for climate change transformations. It puts forward and enlivens an example, where such forms of engaging communities can provide new insight into how equitable, just and sustainable transformations can come about. The process involved a series of interactive workshops with diverse arts-based methods and embodied practices to create performative material. From this process, a space emerged for the creation of meaning about climate change. Three key elements stood out in this process as being potentially important for the emergence of meaning-making and for understanding the impact of the project: the use of metaphors, embedding the project locally, and the use of creative, embodied practices. This furthers research, suggesting that the arts can play a critical role in engaging people with new perspectives on climate change and sustainability issues by offering opportunities for critical reflection and providing spaces for creative imagination and experimentation. Such processes may be important for contributing to the changes needed to realize transformations to sustainability.

本文主张采用一种综合方法来实现可持续性转型，这种方法可以重新连接身心，融合艺术与科学，并以开放、协作和创造性的方式整合各种形式的知识。它回应了学术界强调将不同的认识方式（包括科学、艺术、具体化和当地知识）联系起来的重要性，以更好地了解环境变化并促进社区的复原力和参与度。本文借鉴了葡萄牙里斯本一个以艺术为基础的项目的经验，并探讨了具身性和表演性实践及其在气候变化转型方面的潜力。它提出并激发了一个例子，其中这种参与社区的形式可以为如何实现公平、公正和可持续的转型提供新的见解。该过程涉及一系列互动研讨会，采用多种基于艺术的方法和具体实践来创作表演材料。在这个过程中，出现了一个创造气候变化意义的空间。在这个过程中，三个关键要素脱颖而出，因为它们对于意义创造的出现和理解项目的影响具有潜在的重要性：隐喻的使用、将项目嵌入本地，以及使用创造性的、具体化的实践。这进一步推动了研究，表明艺术可以通过提供批判性反思的机会和创造性想象和实验的空间，在吸引人们对气候变化和可持续性问题的新观点方面发挥关键作用。