Climate is culture

Buckland, David

doi:10.1038/nclimate1420

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“…For Augusto Boal (2000), art and specifically theater is itself a form of knowledge and a tool for social learning. Due to the social learning potential of arts, several scholars have there called for a "cultural turn" in climate action (Buckland, 2012).…”

Section: Complexitymentioning

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ART FOR CHANGE: Transformative learning and youth empowerment in a changing climate

Bentz

O’Brien

2019

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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Young people represent a powerful force for social change, and they have an important role to play in climate change responses. However, empowering young people to be "systems changers" is not straightforward. It is particularly challenging within educational systems that prioritize instrumental learning over critical thinking and creative actions. History has shown that by creating novel spaces for reflexivity and experimentation, the arts have played a role in shifting mindsets and opening up new political horizons. In this paper, we explore the role of art as a driver for societal transformation in a changing climate and consider how an experiment with change can facilitate reflection on relationships between individual change and systems change. Following a review of the literature on transformations, transformative learning and the role of art, we describe an experiment with change carried out with students at an Art High School in Lisbon, Portugal, which involved choosing one sustainable behavior and adopting it for 30 days. A transformative program encouraged regular reflection and group discussions. During the experiment, students started developing an art project about his or her experience with change. The results show that a transformative learning approach that engages students with art can support critical thinking and climate change awareness, new perspectives and a sense of empowerment. Experiential, arts-based approaches also have the potential to create direct and indirect effects beyond the involved participants. We conclude that climate-related art projects can serve as more than a form of science communication. They represent a process of opening up imaginative spaces where audiences can move more freely and reconsider the role of humans as responsible beings with agency and a stake in sustainability transformations.

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Section: Complexitymentioning

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ART FOR CHANGE: Transformative learning and youth empowerment in a changing climate

Bentz

O’Brien

2019

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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“…For example, zoos, museums, and aquariums have been promoting conservation education for decades. Trusted resources in a community, such as churches (Hitzhusen and Tucker 2013) or artists (Buckland 2012), can also act as interface organizations and may help broaden participation with diverse publics.…”

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Scientific Outreach: Toward Effective Public Engagement with Biological Science

2014

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Most scientists agree that interacting with the public is a worthwhile endeavor, but participation in science outreach remains fairly low among biologists. Furthermore, current practices in science outreach remain largely based on ineffective communication models that may undermine public trust and interest. I argue that, in trying to improve both participation rates and the effectiveness of science outreach, we must take a more scientific approach, and we must practice outreach with the same rigor as the science that we share with the public. Here, I describe common misconceptions that can undermine the value of science communication with the public at many scales. I then describe an evidence-based, iterative, evaluative framework for biologists at all career stages to pursue public engagement in the biological sciences. These guidelines can also inform formal outreach training for scientists, specifically in promoting dialogue and engagement.

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“…There is an increasing number of artistic endeavors that seek to engage with climate change . For example, the Cape Farewell project has brought together artists, scientists, and communicators to engage the public about the urgency of climate change . The project leads expeditions to the Arctic to inspire invited guests to develop artwork representing a changing climate.…”

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Climate change and visual imagery

O’Neill

Smith

2013

WIREs Climate Change

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Many actors-including scientists, journalists, artists, and campaigning organizations-create visualizations of climate change. In doing so, they evoke climate change in particular ways, and make the issue meaningful in everyday discourse. While a diversity of climate change imagery exists, particular types of climate imagery appear to have gained dominance, promoting particular ways of knowing about climate change (and marginalizing others). This imagery, and public engagement with this imagery, helps to shape the cultural politics of climate change in important ways. This article critically reviews the nascent research area of the visual representations of climate change, and public engagement with visual imagery. It synthesizes a diverse body of research to explore visual representations and engagement across the news media, NGO communications, advertising, and marketing, climate science, art, and virtual reality systems. The discussion brings together three themes which occur throughout the review: time, truth, and power. The article concludes by suggesting fruitful directions for future research in the visual communication of climate change.

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Climate is culture

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ART FOR CHANGE: Transformative learning and youth empowerment in a changing climate

ART FOR CHANGE: Transformative learning and youth empowerment in a changing climate

Scientific Outreach: Toward Effective Public Engagement with Biological Science

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