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Following on from the Climate Action Hub residency, Live Works once again became a centre for the region's community-led response to climate change: this time becoming the site of an innovative model of participative democracy.
108 The Moor was used as the setting for a pioneering climate policy research project by the Climate ReAssemblies research group at the School of Architecture and Landscape, led by Professor Renata Tyszczuk with Drs. Jayne Carrick, Lena Dobrowolska and Ashley Mason, and various other participants from across the Schools of Architecture and Landscape, Geography and Planning, and Politics.
Our Urban Room became the home of a series of co-production workshops involving a series of community activist participants who had previously been involved in SYMCA's South Yorkshire Citizens' Assembly on Climate. The sessions invited participants to use creative methods to imagine future climate scenarios for South Yorkshire, in each case situating their projections within realistic places, timescales, and communities. These scenarios were captured by illustrator Ugne Petreikyte and incorporated into an i-doc which collates them in a virtual map of a future South Yorkshire.
Live Works later hosted a sharing event for the project, where the completed I-Doc was shown and discussed amongst an audience of local and regional policymakers, activists, academics and citizens. The project was followed by a student Live Project, which took the methods and findings of the residency to peri-urban sites around South Yorkshire, before returning to Live Works for a presentation to local energy stakeholders (Upper Don Community Energy, Sheffield Energy Hub).
A short documentary film made by Mo Khizr (Khizr Studio) explored the making of the project via Urban Room coproduction sessions, and the relevance of this setting to innovation in climate policymaking at a regional level.
Related Projects:
Climate ReAssemblies (Research Project) >
Links:
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South Yorkshire Climate Alliance >
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