Restoring our senses, restoring the Earth : fostering imaginative capacities through the arts for envisioning climate transformations
Galafassi, Diego (Stockholm University. Stockholm Resilience Centre)
Tàbara, J. David 1964- ,
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Heras López, María (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Date: |
2018 |
Abstract: |
Humanity has never lived in a world of global average temperature above two degrees of current levels. Moving towards such High-End Climate Change (HECC) futures presents fundamental challenges to current governance structures and involves the need to confront high uncertainties, non-linear dynamics and multiple irreversibilities in global social-ecological systems. In order to face HECC, imaginative practices able to support multiple ways of learning about and experiencing the future are necessary. In this article we analysed a set of arts-based activities conducted within the five-year EU-funded project IMPRESSIONS aimed at identifying transformative strategies to high-end climate change. The exploratory artistic activities were carried out alongside a science-led participatory integrated assessment process with stakeholders from the Iberian Peninsula. Our arts-based approach combined a range of performative, visual and reflexive practices with the ambition to reach out to more-than-rational but also practical elements of HECC futures. Our study suggests that the arts-based approach helped to bring out new ways of seeing, feeling and interpreting the world which may support the development of individual and collective sensibilities needed to address HECC. |
Grants: |
European Commission 603416
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Note: |
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552 |
Rights: |
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Language: |
Anglès |
Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Subject: |
Arts-based research ;
Art-science interfacing ;
High-end climate change ;
Knowledge coproduction ;
Action-research ;
Transdisciplinarity ;
Imaginative practices ;
Transformative strategies design |
Published in: |
Elementa: science of the Anthropocene, Vol. 6 (Nov. 2018) , art. 69, ISSN 2325-1026 |
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.330
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