As part of a collaboration with Luoto, JB delivered a three-part webinar series exploring the role of culture in responding to the climate crisis, with a focus on adaptation, resilience, culture-based solutions and climate justice. The series brings together JB team members to share practical frameworks, policy insights and community-led approaches that support more resilient, regenerative and equitable futures.
Across the three lectures, the series explores how culture can strengthen climate adaptation and resilience, inform national and international climate policy, and address the systemic roots of climate injustice. Topics include culture-based solutions, the role of the arts and creative industries in climate negotiations, Indigenous land stewardship, resistant ecologies, and the need for a Just Transition.
Together, the sessions highlight how culture-led and community-led practices can enable systems of care, repair and transformation in the face of accelerating environmental and social change.
Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change
Lecture #1 | 90 min
Speakers: Vicky Sword-Daniels, Tenaya King and Graciela Melitsko Thornton / Julie’s Bicycle
The lecture introduces adaptation and resilience as vital strategies in responding to the climate crisis. We will examine the crucial role of culture in supporting communities, buildings, and urban environments to navigate and withstand the impacts of a changing climate. Through a focus on community-led and locally inspired approaches, we will reimagine how adaptation can be both practical and visionary. The session will feature compelling examples from artists and organisations around the world who are integrating these approaches within their practice and mission.
Policy and Culture-Based Solutions
Lecture #2 | 45 min
Speakers: Alison Tickell and Imogen Cripps / Julie’s Bicycle
This lecture will introduce the idea of culture-based solutions to the climate crisis and the opportunities to incorporate culture and the arts into national and international climate policies. We will look at how culture – including cultural heritage, the arts, and the creative industries – has been an often-overlooked tool in international climate negotiations and strategies to date, despite its potential to build more resilient communities, offer design solutions to societal problems, and facilitate a shift in values for a more regenerative future.
Ahead of COP30 in Brazil, we will look at culture’s role in the Global Mutirão and routes to build culture into climate policies in the coming years, including Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans.
The nature, climate and justice crisis
Lecture #3 | 45 min
Speaker: Taghrid Choucair Vizoso / Julie’s Bicycle
At this critical time, this lecture introduces the origins of climate injustice as crucial to understanding the catastrophic decline of our environment. How have many of our connections to land and nature practices been disrupted as a consequence?
We will look at the ways in which colonialism, militarism and the climate crisis are intertwined. We will examine the latest evidence of ecocide inflicted on Global Majority countries, the impacts of green colonialism, and what is needed for a Just Transition. The concept of resistant ecologies and practices rooted in Indigenous land stewardship will be highlighted throughout. The session will also feature examples of how community-led initiatives enable systems of care as a means of repair, and how culture-based practices can lead to transformative, regenerative futures.
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