Everyday Eco-Activism: Language, Art and Climate Change at the Good Growth Hub
Everyday Eco-Activism aims to amplify the voices of communities on climate from one of the UK’S most culturally and linguistically diverse spaces in the UK – the London Olympic Legacy Boroughs – Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
Working in collaboration with A New Direction’s Good Growth Hub, based in Hackney Wick, the project team will run three creative participatory action workshops with young creative participants (aged 18–30), who have all been recruited from within the local area.
The project’s aim is to explore connections between the diverse experiences and knowledge of communities and the conceptual languages of climate change in scientific, political and public discourse, with a view to emphasising how local perspectives both understand and contribute towards wider debates on questions of climate.
A key objective for this work is exploring what methods and approaches the experimental and participatory humanities, and languages and cultures specifically, can both bring to and, crucially, learn about global challenges such as climate change when those challenges are re-framed through a ‘bottom up’ and shared collaborative process of knowledge production.
The project is funded by the British Academy’s Small Grant scheme and co-led and conceived by the academics and creative consultants, Jade Chao of Daikon Zine, Dr Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Neela Doležalová, Dr Joseph Ford, Dr Yewande Okuleye, with creative support and leadership from colleagues at A New Direction’s Good Growth Hub, Jo Lacey, Adelaide Lumor and Leila Jassal.
For more information about the project, please contact the Principal Investigator: Dr Joseph Ford (joseph.ford@sas.ac.uk).
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