Overview
Communities are at the forefront of climate innovation. This artistic research project aims to capture and convey how individuals in cities across the globe are adapting to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
FEEL TO ACT PROJECT 2025
Research Question
How can cities utilize community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) to document, analyze, and enhance community-led climate adaptation strategies while creating cultural climate capacity?
CHALLENGE & INTERVENTION
The Inner Development Goals(IDG) Global Artist Network partnered with Infinity Village Lab to facilitate a first-of-its-kind global survey of individuals in cities to embody their lived and imagined experiences of systems transformation. This global survey serves as an ongoing data measurement vehicle for capturing the sensations, perceptions, and social impacts of systems transformation for climate innovation in global communities.
Challenge
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Our research is being used to inform a broader global creative initiative during COP 30 and Mézu presented the study and demonstrated its impacts at the IDG Summit in October 2024. Watch a clip here.
Highlights
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We designed an assessment activity featuring prompts for each participant to select and reply with an embodied response. Participating research artists around the world captured responses via various creative medias. More than 200 individuals from +100 countries participated.
Intervention
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This arts and humanities research project focuses on capturing four key categories of information:
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Demographic information of participating city
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The imagined experience of systems transformation for regional climate action
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Individual, communal, and organizational access to embodied communication practices
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Shapes of individual, communal, and systemic innovations to mitigate climate change