PA43A:
Climate Literacy: The Arts as an Ally in Understanding Earth and Invoking Change II Posters

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Session ID#: 26960

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
Conveners:  Heidi Steltzer, Iliff School of Theology, Denver, United States and J.D. Talasek, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Marda Kirn, EcoArts Connections, Boulder, CO, United States and J.D. Talasek, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Heidi Steltzer, Iliff School of Theology, Denver, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings) [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Scientists + Artists: An Introduction to Mutually Beneficial Partnerships (267429)
Ashley Sparks, Self Employed, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Utilizing Crochet to Showcase Temporal Patterns in Temperature Records from One Location and to Spark a Climate Conversation (211193)
Laura A Guertin, Penn State Brandywine, Earth Science, Media, PA, United States
Locally-sourced: How climate science can collaborate with arts & humanities museums to achieve widespread public trust and communication (218974)
Cynthia Gano Walker, Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, ME, United States
Arctic Messages: Arctic Research in the Vocabulary of Poets and Artists (233526)
Francesca Samsel, University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, TX, United States
Earth’s Climate: Informing and Invoking Change Through Three Streams of Art and Science (244228)
James A Brey, American Meteorological Society Washington DC, Education Program, Washington, DC, United States, Judith Lynne Waller, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley, Art, Menaha, WI, United States, Erin DeMuynck, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley, Geography, Menaha, WI, United States and Teresa C Weglarz, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley, Biology, Menaha, WI, United States
Weather on Steroids: The Art of Climate Change Science. (295600)
Michel Andre Boudrias, University of San Diego, Environmental and Ocean Sciences, San Diego, United States, Alexander Gershunov, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Tatiana Sizonenko, University of California San Diego, Visual Arts, San Diego, CA, United States, Allison Wiese, University of San Diego, Art, Architecture and Art History, San Diego, United States and Heath Fox, La Jolla Historical Society, San Diego, United States
Art as a key tool for engaging the public with the ICESat-2 mission (297530)
Valerie Casasanto, University of Maryland Baltimore County/NASA GSFC, Baltimore, United States and Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

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