Creative Methodologies for Constructing Alternative
Visions of Urban Climate Adaptation
Visions of Urban Climate Adaptation
Beyond green utopias, technology-driven futures, and doomsday scenarios, how else might we imagine the future of our cities?
Thousands of cities around the world are adapting to climate change. Yet there is still little consensus on what constitutes successful adaptation and how it should be evaluated. Current approaches often rely on technocratic, risk-oriented frameworks that overlook the ways local communities experience
and respond to climate change. In fact, only around 3% of existing adaptation indicators measure the actual impacts of adaptation actions, while the vast majority simply describe interventions and activities.
The IMAGINE Adaptation (ERC) project seeks to redefine climate adaptation by exploring it from the ground up. Adopting transdisciplinary principles and creative methodologies, the project investigates how diverse stakeholders in different cities worldwide can collectively envision and evaluate alternative adaptation futures.
This seminar will present the work of IMAGINE Adaptation and share insights from three case studies in Mérida (Mexico), Bogotá (Colombia), and Alghero (Italy). Participants will learn how future visions can be co-created across stakeholder groups and how these visions can be translated into meaningful indicators and measures of adaptation success.
The seminar will also include a hands-on workshop in which participants will use art-based methods (i.e. a set of professionally designed illustrations) to collaboratively develop future visions for the city of Florence.
Thousands of cities around the world are adapting to climate change. Yet there is still little consensus on what constitutes successful adaptation and how it should be evaluated. Current approaches often rely on technocratic, risk-oriented frameworks that overlook the ways local communities experience
and respond to climate change. In fact, only around 3% of existing adaptation indicators measure the actual impacts of adaptation actions, while the vast majority simply describe interventions and activities.
The IMAGINE Adaptation (ERC) project seeks to redefine climate adaptation by exploring it from the ground up. Adopting transdisciplinary principles and creative methodologies, the project investigates how diverse stakeholders in different cities worldwide can collectively envision and evaluate alternative adaptation futures.
This seminar will present the work of IMAGINE Adaptation and share insights from three case studies in Mérida (Mexico), Bogotá (Colombia), and Alghero (Italy). Participants will learn how future visions can be co-created across stakeholder groups and how these visions can be translated into meaningful indicators and measures of adaptation success.
The seminar will also include a hands-on workshop in which participants will use art-based methods (i.e. a set of professionally designed illustrations) to collaboratively develop future visions for the city of Florence.
Agenda
15.00 – 16.00 Lecture: Creative Methodologies for Constructing Alternative Visions of Urban Climate Adaptation
16.00 – 16.15 Q&A
16.15 – 16.30 Break
16.30 -18.30 Workshop: Constructing a shared vision for the city of Florence through art
About the Speaker
Dr Maria Loroño Leturiondo is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in climate change adaptation and citizen participation. Her work focuses on how creative and participatory methodologies can help communities imagine, negotiate, and shape urban futures. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao.
Dr Loroño Leturiondo holds a PhD in Public Engagement with Climate Change from Manchester Metropolitan University, an MSc in Cognition and Communication from University of Copenhagen, and a BA in Communication from University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain.
Dr Maria Loroño Leturiondo is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in climate change adaptation and citizen participation. Her work focuses on how creative and participatory methodologies can help communities imagine, negotiate, and shape urban futures. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao.
Dr Loroño Leturiondo holds a PhD in Public Engagement with Climate Change from Manchester Metropolitan University, an MSc in Cognition and Communication from University of Copenhagen, and a BA in Communication from University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain.