What if the peace movement invited its strongest critics into the room? Perhaps creating peace also means creating better ways to disagree, question our assumptions and listen.
Stories. Systems. Shift.
Making sense of a world in transition through storytelling, art, and honest conversation.
I’m Gregg the Artivist — a storyteller, artist, and activist exploring the systems shaping our lives, from climate and technology to community, media, power, and human connection. Through videos, essays, podcasts, and public engagement, I create space to question what we’ve normalised, reconnect with what matters, and imagine different ways forward — together.
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Here, I write about the quieter truths shaping our world — climate, culture, community, identity, grief, systems, and the human search for meaning in uncertain times.
At a peace protest in Amsterdam, as I spoke to people, I noticed their willingness to accept both uncertainty and difficult questions. I struggled to see how imagining peace is less realistic than preparing for conflict.
A reunion dinner in Amsterdam unexpectedly leads into reflecting on emotional survival, ageing, climate awareness, and how the realities we carry quietly reshape who we become.
Have we stopped noticing each other? A reflection on emotional exhaustion, shrinking attention spans, performative interaction, and why community resilience may depend on our ability to genuinely care for one another again.
This year’s Pride The Hague left me reflecting on memory, survival, community and the emotional atmosphere surrounding modern Pride. From wearing an old rainbow resistance pin to witnessing younger generations walk more freely beneath the huge rainbow flag and LOVE balloons, this piece...
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Deeper stories that connect the climate crisis to politics, people, and emotion. From Trump and climate collapse to the lithium dilemma in Serbia, these videos explore how power and systems affect our shared future.
In this video, we explore what a second Trump term might mean for his potential anti-environmental / climate actions, based on his first term with guest Dario Fazzi...
In this video, I delve into the controversial history of mining giant Rio Tinto. I look at their proposed lithium mining plans in Serbia’s Jadar Valley...
Join me as I discover the Age of Climate Anxiety with Dr. Susan Clayton, world leading authority on the psychological impacts of the Climate Crisis. When we think about...
Designing for Climate Change. My visit to “It’s Our F***ing Backyard’ at the Stedelijk Museum Amstedam It’s Our F***ing Backyard: Designing...
So What is Climate Change? What is Global Warming? And what basic science should be all know about the Climate Crisis 2022
Listen - Rewrite Reality
Season 01: 16 episodes where we peel back the layers of how we imagine our world — then explore what it means to build different futures.
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