Restoring our senses, restoring the Earth

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Galafassi, Diego|||0000-0003-3572-9275, Tàbara, J. David|||0000-0002-3086-5414, Heras López, María|||0000-0002-8030-1633
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:203139
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/203139
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1525/elementa.330
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Arts-based research
Art-science interfacing
High-end climate change
Knowledge coproduction
Action-research
Transdisciplinarity
Imaginative practices
Transformative strategies design
Descripción
Sumario: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.