Co-Creating Climate Futures through Creative Communication and Collaboration
13. May
- Tuesday, May 13, 14-16 Uhr
- C40.256 & Zoom
- Centre for Digital Cultures: Climate Futures Talk
- Speaker: Julie Doyle
- Registration is not necessary, For Zoom details, please contact: Inga Luchs (inga.luchs@leuphana.de)
Creating equitable climate futures requires cultivating collective imaginaries and narratives that go beyond the socio- cultural-technological conditions of the present to offer socially transformative visions. Yet such envisionings also require being attentive to how current intersecting systems circumscribe these imaginings. As a discipline that focuses upon the communicative dimensions of climate change as constitutive of climate knowledge and action, climate communication scholars play a crucial role in this process. Yet moving from critical reflection on existing climate communication, to active creation of new climate narratives requires working across disciplines and practices. As Haraway puts it, in order to deal with the messy entanglements of our troubled times, “we require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations.” (Haraway 2016, 4). This presentation will explore how the epistemological approaches of climate communication can be brought into conversation with the disciplines and practices of art, science and education to co-create communication about climate futures.
Central is the importance of the processes of participation and collaboration in creating new narratives. To illustrate, the presentation will discussa number of creative climate communication projects with young people in the UK and Europe that I have been involved in (Doyle 2020, Doyle et al. 2024; System Change Hive 2019), exploring both the possibilities and challenges of collaborative working in the fostering of climate futures in the present.
Julie Doyle is a Professor of Media and Communication in the School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton, UK. Over the last two decades, Julie’s research has examined the role of media, (visual) communication and popular culture in shaping societal understandings of and responses to climate change. Author of Mediating Climate Change (Routledge, 2011/2016). Her research has been cited in the UN’s IPCC Scientific Assessment Reports (2018, 2022). Julie also works collaboratively with artists and young people to co-create climate communication, and has provided consultancy on climate communication to government, NGOs and business.