FEEL TO ACT
PROJECT
A SOCIAL CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVE
CHALLENGE & INTERVENTION
Communities are on the front lines
of climate innovation.
This artistic research project documents how cities are actively building their capacity to address climate change through embodied communication practices.
Challenge
The Inner Development Goals(IDG) Global Artist Network partnered with Infinity Village Lab to facilitate a first-of-its-kind global survey of cities to visualize their lived and imagined experiences of systems transformation.
This international survey serves as an ongoing measurement vehicle for shaping the sensations, perceptions, and behaviors of systems transformation for climate adaptation and resilience in cities.
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Highlights
Our preliminary findings uncover that most individuals don't know they inherently possess the ability to communicate complex thoughts with their bodies- until they start doing it.
This data collected from this initiative is being used to inform a broader asset-based narrative of global transformational innovation exhibited in Brazil during COP 30.
ILab was invited to facilitate and present this project during the Systems Transformation Track at the IDG Summit 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Research Question
How do cities describe their lived and imagined needs for systems transformation to promote climate adaptation and resilience?
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We created a community-based participatory action research activity consisting of a prompt for participants to engage via embodied response.
Participating research artists around the world captured responses via various creative medias. More than 250 individuals from +100 countries have participated so far.
Intervention
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This arts and humanities research project focuses on measuring four key categories of solutions:
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Core human needs of participating cities
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The imagined experience of systems transformation for local climate action
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Communal wisdom, affection, and pride for local biodiversity
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Living artifacts of personal, communal, and systemic adaptation and resilience practices.