"Responding to Climate: Expressing Ourselves Through Conversation, Story, and Art" Grant Project

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Climate change is a story, or rather billions of interlinked personal stories. For the most part, however, we distance ourselves from climate change through the buffers of scientific data or political battles. As a result, many people relate to climate change only in the abstract, if at all. In order to reach people on a deeper, personal level, we need to hear each other’s experiences of climate change and normalize talking about the reality of our changing world, specific to our local community and the unique changes and impacts that we will face in Northeast Minnesota/Northwest Wisconsin.

Lisa Fitzpatrick, Director of the Motion + Media Across Disciplines/Viz Lab and Jonna Korpi, Director of the UMD Office of Sustainability have been awarded a 2023 SDG Research Grant through the U of M Global Programs and Strategy Alliance for their “Responding to Climate Change: Expressing Ourselves Through Conversation, Story, and Art” project. The MMAD Lab team (including Student Assistants Ethan Schurman, Brendan Rood, Haeun Lee and MMAD Lab Video Producer Dan Fitzpatrick) is currently recording climate conversations with the UMD and Duluth communities and creating climate art projects and events.

Addressing the climate crisis begins with talking about climate change topics openly, regularly, and in community. The team is creating an educational and artistic forum where individuals, students, and community members are invited to explore their personal experience with climate change and the emotional impact these changes are having. There will be three avenues employed for such exploration:

  1. Provide spaces to speak, ask questions, contemplate, and reflect on climate’s current local impacts
  2. Integrate climate experiences into educational opportunities
  3. Create and present artistic works that embody participants’ climate experiences.

This work will add to our community’s body of climate change education, awareness raising, and increase of human and natural capacity to address climate change impacts through mitigation, adaptation and resilience. The project directly supports outcomes for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) #3 Good Health & Wellbeing and SDG #13 Climate Action while also addressing issues related to SDG #10 Reduced Inequalities and SDG #11 Sustainable Cities and Communities.

To learn more, please visit the project website.

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    Solar Power at UMD
    (2023-03-16) Milan, Riya; University of Minnesota Duluth. SUN Delegation; University of Minnesota Duluth. Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab
    This is a video produced by the UMD Sun Delegation explaining how solar power on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus works.
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    Ocean Grass
    (2019-01-24) University of Minnesota Duluth. Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab
    UMD's Art and Design instructor Cecilia Ramon's installation "Ocean Grass" is a grass map of the ocean currents.
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    Climate Change and Lake Superior
    (2019-04-09) University of Minnesota Duluth. Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab
    Mark and Katya Gordon and their children take students sailing around Lake Superior to raise awareness about climate change and Lake Superior.
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    Climate Conversations
    (2024-03-28) University of Minnesota Duluth. Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab
    Duluthians talk about climate change and hope, loving nature and caring for each other. Ideas to spread.
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    Climate Justice with Bret Pence
    (2024-03-28) Elisheba Perry Productions; University of Minnesota Duluth. Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab
    Bret is the Director of Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light, a climate justice organization. He says the best thing anyone can do as a climate action is just start talking about it! Tell people why you care about climate change: friends, relatives... Don't be afraid. He also gives a quick overview of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest federal funding for climate action, rebuilding a cleaner, more just infrastructure.
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    Alexis Elder's Climate Community Connection
    (2024-03-28) University of Minnesota Duluth. Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab
    University of Minnesota Philosophy Professor Alexis Elder and her class discuss climate change and their class Climate Community Connection. Students are creating ideas to solve climate problems and going out into the world. Hope! Humans can innovate, humans can change.
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    International Climate Clock Projections
    (2023-10-16) Fitzpatrick, Lisa; Benoit, Daniel; Akemann, River; Thain, John
    Drone footage: artists Daniel Benoit, River Akkeman and Lisa Fitzpatrick created a projected climate clock and waves on the Duluth Energy Systems building in downtown Duluth, highlighting the importance of rapid action. https://climateclock.world/
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    Climate Confessions
    (2022-06-20) Amundson, Sarah; University of Minnesota Duluth. Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab
    Climate Confessions...by Sarah Amundson Chalked on Earth Week April 2022 at UMD
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    UMD Student Climate Conversations
    (2024-03-28) University of Minnesota Duluth. Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab
    University of Minnesota Duluth students share hopeful thoughts about addressing the climate crisis. Be good to each other. Nature is beautiful. Gratitude. The rapidly changing climate is not your fault. Keep moving forward.
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    Climate Clock Action Week! Poster
    (2023-07) Schurman, Ethan
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    The First Earth Day At National History Day MN
    (2023-06-13) Johnson, Margaret; Fitzpatrick, Lisa; Fitzpatrick, Dan; University of Minnesota Duluth. Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab
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    David Bowen's Wilderness
    (2023-04-26) Bowen, David; Fitzpatrick, Dan; University of Minnesota Duluth. Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab