Climate, Art, and Digital Activisms Festival of Ideas
Melbourne/Narrm 21-23 November
This is a free event bringing together local community members, interdisciplinary artists, scientists and educators in Melbourne for a unique conversation.
The urgency of the climate crisis is bringing world media, activists, politicians, policymakers, scientists and educators together for @ COP27 in November 2022. Yet many people at home and in the local community don’t get to participate in these talks. We are often told what to think about climate change and the threat of ecological collapse, but don’t often get a chance to explore how we can take shared action for better futures.
We think everyone has a role to play in thinking about and acting on climate change, no single group of people or technological advancement is going to save us.
Instead of waiting to be told what to do, we now, more than ever, need to have conversations across generations, communities and institutional boundaries to create solutions together. The Climate, Art, and Digital Activisms Festival of Ideas is inviting diverse audiences and organisations wanting to be a part of creating a just and sustainable future. We are flipping the script by opening up the conversation to local community members, interdisciplinary artists, scientists and educators. The Festival program is designed to create meaningful opportunities to contribute, connect and create community to meet the challenges we face.
The festival program is comprised of 12 carefully curated Acts which bring invited keynote speakers and practice-based facilitators into conversation with each other. Invited keynotes are purposefully paired and discussion will be facilitated by the convenors as a decolonising act. ECRs and GRs are welcomed into the conversation via Pecha Kucha sessions. The aim is to connect communities of educational researchers to each other, while offering the space and time to trouble and speculate as a community post COP27. In the face of an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, we ask:
- What are the knowledges, practices and relationships that can address the climate challenges of our rapidly changing world?
- How can researchers, practitioners and activists contribute to a new ecosystem of learning around issues of climate justice and meaningful action?
- What do we, as a community, need to do to transform education, policy and practice for our climate futures?
The festival is made possible by a University of Melbourne Dyason Fellowship* and competitive SIG funding from Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)**