Attitudini e iniziative sull'emergenza climatica tramite arte: a Scoping Review

The study of art-based public engagement with climate change is becoming increasingly important as societies address the social and political implications of climate risk. This scoping review synthesizes empirical findings from 15 peer-reviewed studies published between 2015 and 2025 to evaluate public-facing climate initiatives involving art and their influence on public attitudes. Most studies use quantitative and single-case designs and relatively few employed longitudinal, comparative, or experimental approaches. They explore interventions that vary from public installations and festivals to community-based projects and art education. The review reveals relatively consistent effects on emotional engagement and concern regarding climate change, with mixed evidence on sustained behavioral change. Interventions emphasizing emotional engagement and participation appear more likely to yield pro-environmental outcomes. The corpus is concentrated in high-income, Anglophone contexts and places greater emphasis on individual behavior change than on structural drivers of emissions. These findings indicate that while climate initiatives involving art can be promising tools to shift public attitudes, further longitudinal and comparative research with greater methodological consistency and broader geographic representation is needed to clarify their role in supporting climate action.