Given its track record in the development of high profile projects linking Science, Sustainability and the arts (Prix Pictet, Signatures of the Invisible), Candlestar was an obvious partner for the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL) to support Sculpting Our History - a unique event held at the Science Museum in London on 27 May 2009.

In the context of climate change, Sculpting our History sought to explore how seeing as an ‘artist’ can change our perspective, and endeavoured to examine the role of the arts and creativity in ‘sculpting’ our world in times of crisis, in the past and today.

The event formed part of the 2009 Nobel Laureates Symposium on Climate Change, hosted by the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL) with the patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales. It brought together around 150 esteemed artists, business and public sector heads, civil society leaders, academics, scientists and 20 Nobel Prize winners. Alongside a panel discussion that included contributions from Nobel Peace Prize-winner Wangari Maathai, Artistic Director of the South Bank Centre, Jude Kelly, Artist Heather Ackroyd, and Director of the Centre for Ecoliteracy, Fritjof Capra, there were performances by leading artists from a range of mediums, including Max Eastley and Lemn Sissay.