Mi’kma’ki 2030 – Restorying Climate Just Futures Event

Description

Storytelling is an important method of teaching and learning in many communities but has only recently been recognized as a crucial dimension of climate change communication. Stories help us to better understand the past and imagine possibilities for the future. In this local context, the 2030 declaration for contending with a just transition away from fossil fuels began by asking: what does climate justice look like in Mi’kma’ki in 2030? To explore this question, this project will bring together a network of artists, activists, and academics in a series of virtual gatherings to co-learn, co-imagine, and co-inspire a Climate Just Future. By centering Afro futurist and Indigenous futurist lenses, the objective is to move the conversation beyond the normative scientific and technocratic Eurocentric lens of climate change discourse. 

Creative Output: 

 As a Research Team had 21 meetings with the Collective to collectively dialogue and discuss the design and platform for delivering the project outcomes. The Collective had 2 gatherings of BIPOC artists to plan their artistic exhibits. The Research Team co-produced a website with the Collective that housed an art exhibit that was available only during Mayworks. 

 This artifact demonstrates that the exhibit existed: https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/archives-continuum/ 

 After Mayworks, the research team and the Collective co-hosted a public Zoom celebration event to dialogue with the public about the artistic exhibit and the impact of the pieces.