The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a ongoing public participatory artwork co-created in 2014 with the artist Alicia Escott. In this participatory artwork we collaborate with the public to coin new words to give voice to the unique feelings and experiences people are having as our world rapidly changes due to climate change and other Anthropogenic events. We then use these new words to facilitate much needed conversations about these greater experiences with the view to inspire a greater cultural shift around climate change and other cataclysmic modern day phenomena.

The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a blend of multiple disciplines: behavioral science - how people learn new subjects (e.g. curiosity and self driven learning), psychology, language, performance art, humor - which makes even the darkest subject(s) accessible and more. The artwork is inspired by the Linguistic Relativity theory which holds that language affects the way in which people, think, act, create culture and conceptualize their world.

As The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is an ongoing project, we have been bringing our mobile word making office, academic lectures and word making salons to communities globally for the last 10 years including the Rockaways in New York to the global public at the 21st UN Climate Change Talks in Paris, France and more. The artwork has been covered by the Economist, BBC, diverse academic theses, become the subject of films, jazz songs and also been adopted into diverse lexicons.