This interactive workshop will create a space to come together and better understand our role as enablers of a just and sustainable future, and consider how to create spaces to encourage transformative climate action rather than short-term fixes, as well as our role in mediating relationships between people, society and environments. Participants are invited to bring experiences of sustainability interventions (at any stage of development) and help to create an interactive wall of challenges, approaches, outcomes, and evaluation methods. We’ll set goals and follow up on them at the 2023 Ecsite Conference.
This session is part of the Biodiversity and climate crisis conference track.
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Session speakers
Assistant Professor in Science Education
Dublin
Ireland
This will be a crowd-sourced workshop session. The speakers will introduce themselves and the context of the session, and each share a personal reflection on what spurred them to create this session, and after this short introduction, will facilitate participant input and lead collective sharing at the end of the session.
Mairéad Hurley’s inspiration for this session is based on her experience as co-founder of Imeall, a collective of educators, scientists, and artists who are working to engage communities in the West of Ireland in climate dialogue and action, with a focus on arts, cultural heritage and craft practices, circular economy, and a just transition.
PhD Researcher
King's College London
London
United Kingdom
This will be a crowd-sourced workshop session. The speakers will introduce themselves and the context of the session, and each share a personal reflection on what spurred them to create this session, and after this short introduction, will facilitate the participant input and lead collective sharing at the end of the session. Sophie Perry is studying for a PhD at King’s College London that explores the role of education in climate action through case studies in the UK. She will draw from her research experience as well as her work as a facilitator and educator to deliver this session.
Senior Interpretation Developer
The Natural History Museum
London
United Kingdom
This will be a crowd-sourced workshop session. The speakers will introduce themselves and the context of the session, and each share a personal reflection on what spurred them to create this session, and after this short introduction, will facilitate the participant input and lead collective sharing at the end of the session. Lottie Dodwell will share her experience of developing the Natural History Museum’s climate-focused exhibition Our Broken Planet: How We Got Here and Ways to Fix It. Creating this exhibition created new partnerships, new ways of working inside the Museum and crucially opened up a space for climate conversation.