SYMPOSIUM FORUM 2022: PICTURING CLIMATE CHANGE
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Picturing climate change (March 21, 2022) was an online symposium that explored ‘what is seen and unseen’ in climate change from the viewpoints of the visual arts and photography, community action, agro-forestry to climate monitoring by earth orbiting satellites. This web event was hosted by Street Level Photoworks (Glasgow, Scotland) in partnership with Dundee City Council, British Council and with NASA’s Earth Observation unit, NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It asked participants to change their views and to be prepared to see the world from the ground up and back through space.
Picturing climate change (March 21, 2022) was an online symposium that explored ‘what is seen and unseen’ in climate change from the viewpoints of the visual arts and photography, community action, agro-forestry to climate monitoring by earth orbiting satellites. This web event was hosted by Street Level Photoworks (Glasgow, Scotland) in partnership with Dundee City Council, British Council and with NASA’s Earth Observation unit, NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It asked participants to change their views and to be prepared to see the world from the ground up and back through space.
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A follow-up conference covering the development of new nature-based and arts solutions will be hosted in Spring 2023. It will also address the further progress of 'Trees for Life' and other eco-arts projects led by Earth-Art-Studio.
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Topics covered:
SYMPOSIUM 2022 Community engagement and multidisciplinary collaborations Climate conversations and actions are now involving a wide spectrum of practitioners from a variety of fields, including researchers, horticulturalists, astrophysicists, engineers, planners, activists, artists, citizens and school children, to name a few. How have multidisciplinary arts collaborations local to Dundee and Glasgow, Scotland, for instance, successfully changed how we perceive climate challenges with immediate and international communities? Researchers say emotion and imagination are urgently needed to reach people in ways information alone cannot Ecology, land rehabilitation, and culture What are the real stories from the ground about environmental change? How can people better express what is happening to them? Ecology and land rehabilitation need a balance of culture and ecological knowledge to be co-presented in order to create real action. How can that work? The solution <-> problem Activate and co-support knowledge stakeholders Climate change disproportionately affects people in low-and middle-income contexts who have done the least to contribute to it. Yet often these communities do not have the information or the channels they need to share or make informed decisions about how to prepare for climate change. Can simple actions and tools help make a difference? Can sharing examples and local knowledge lead to new ways to innovate? |
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the Climate Hazards Center, the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS Net), and modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by the European Space Agency courtesy of Josh Willis/NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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Picturing Climate Change was hosted on March 21st, 2022, the UN's official day of the Forest
Archived page at https://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/event/picturing-climate-change
The event lasted for 120 minutes and included a live Q&A on the YouTube channel.
The forum was supported by the British Council Creative Climate Commission and with associates from NASA Earth Observatory and International Space Station, Women4Climate, Dundee City Council, Dundee UNESCO City of Design, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Canada), climate artists: Borda & Donnelly, and ROBA with community participants from schools at Kofele, Koma Mamo, Gormicho, and Usula Moke in West Arsi Zone, Ethiopia. Support for ‘Leaves We Live’ project has come Basharat Khan and made in collaboration with Stella Rooney and children at St Francis and Blackfriars Primary Schools, Glasgow and Street Level’s Culture Collective programme.
A publication from the forum will be launched in Autumn 2022.
See past Climate Conversations: Forever Changes series hosted by Street Level Photoworks at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXDDGnjohqo
Archived page at https://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/event/picturing-climate-change
The event lasted for 120 minutes and included a live Q&A on the YouTube channel.
The forum was supported by the British Council Creative Climate Commission and with associates from NASA Earth Observatory and International Space Station, Women4Climate, Dundee City Council, Dundee UNESCO City of Design, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Canada), climate artists: Borda & Donnelly, and ROBA with community participants from schools at Kofele, Koma Mamo, Gormicho, and Usula Moke in West Arsi Zone, Ethiopia. Support for ‘Leaves We Live’ project has come Basharat Khan and made in collaboration with Stella Rooney and children at St Francis and Blackfriars Primary Schools, Glasgow and Street Level’s Culture Collective programme.
A publication from the forum will be launched in Autumn 2022.
See past Climate Conversations: Forever Changes series hosted by Street Level Photoworks at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXDDGnjohqo
