ED41B:
Climate Literacy: The Climate is Changing - Are We?: The Arts as an Ally in Invoking Change

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Session ID#: 18406

Session Description:
Research demonstrates that evidence and logic are not enough to persuade people to live more sustainably. Instead, effective action requires a combination of cognition and affect working together rather than separately or alone. Since prehistoric times, the arts have inspired deep engagement, reflection, and discussion thanks to their affective power to attract, involve, stimulate, and motivate people to do things they might not otherwise have the interest, energy, or courage to do. In their affective roles as agents of personal and social change, the arts, informed by the cognitive power of science and other fields, can introduce global change issues in new ways and move people—emotionally and physically—to act. This session will present examples, images, ideas, and results demonstrating how the arts have worked in collaboration with science and other fields to spark attitudinal and behavioral shifts and make climate change and sustainability personal, visceral, and actionable.
Primary Convener:  Marda Kirn, EcoArts Connections, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener:  Kim Victoria Abeles, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Kim Victoria Abeles, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Marda Kirn, EcoArts Connections, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Marda Kirn, EcoArts Connections, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The What and So What? of Climate Change Communication (197767)
Marda Kirn, EcoArts Connections, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveying Environmental Issues with and through Art (172298)
Kim Victoria Abeles, Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States
Making Climate Change Visceral Through the Arts (162346)
Chantal Bilodeau, Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States
Engagement In Climate Change Awareness Through Art Exhibitions (133975)
Diane Burko, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Fostering Sustained Climate Engagement and Collaborative Leadership through Creativity and Science-Informed Arts (196661)
Molly Jane Sturges, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Kristin Rothballer, Firerock: Pass the Spark, Santa Fe, NM, United States
Using Music to Communicate Weather and Climate (Invited) (125831)
Paul Williams, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Karen L Aplin, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Sally Brown, University of Southampton, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, Southampton, United Kingdom, Katie Jenkins, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, Sarah Mander, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom and Claire Walsh, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Life Cores: A Sci-Art Collaboration Between a Snow/Ice Researcher, an Artist/Educator, Students, and Street Road Artists Space (161281)
Julia Dooley, Polar Educators International, Oxford, United States; Christina School District, Newark, DE, United States, Zoe Courville, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States and Emily Artinian, Street Road Artists Space, Cochranville, PA, United States; Engels LLC, Cochranville, PA, United States
Dancing on Thinning Ice: Choreography and Science in the Chukchi Sea (Invited) (124465)
Jody Sperling, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Enhancing Science Literacy and Art History Engagement at Princeton Through Collaboration Between the University Art Museum and the Council on Science and Technology (150430)
Catherine A Riihimaki and Veronica M. White, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
“Participatory Cli-Fi”: Crowdsourcing Voicemails from the Future to Spark Engagement and Discern Perceptions of Climate Change (191799)
Gina Stovall1,2, Ken Eklund3, Kate Redsecker4, Theresa Hernandez5, Stephanie L Pfirman6 and Benjamin S Orlove4, (1)Earth Institute, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)New York Governor's Office of Storm Recovery, New York, NY, United States, (3)writerguy, San Jose, CA, United States, (4)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States, (6)Barnard College and Columbia University - Earth Institute, New York, NY, United States

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