ED43D:
Climate Literacy: Engaging the Public and Inspiring Action Through Effective Science/Arts/Sustainability Communication II Posters


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Session ID#: 61658

Session Description:
Research demonstrates that evidence and logic aren't enough to persuade people to live more sustainably. Instead, effective action requires a combination of cognition and affect. Since prehistoric times, the arts have served as access points to understanding complex societal issues and the “hero’s journey” of facing difficult challenges while inspiring deep engagement, reflection, and discussion. In their affective roles as agents of personal and social change, the arts unite with the cognitive power of science to speak to our humanity — allowing global change issues to transcend language, background, education level, age, attention span and time — and move people, emotionally and physically, to act. This session will present examples, images, ideas, and results demonstrating how the arts can bring the objective/empirical and the subjective/emotive together to spark attitudinal and behavioral shifts; reach broader audiences more deeply; enhance long-term retention; and make climate change and sustainability personal, visceral, and actionable.
Primary Convener:  Marda Kirn, EcoArts Connections, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Chandler, University of Colorado at Boulder, Environmental Studies, Boulder, United States, Celia Gurney, Climate Nexus, Climate Signals, New York, NY, United States and Samuel Michael Illingworth, Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Marda Kirn, EcoArts Connections, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Marda Kirn, EcoArts Connections, Boulder, CO, United States and Patrick Chandler, University of Colorado at Boulder, Environmental Studies, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Celia Gurney, Climate Nexus, Climate Signals, New York, NY, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0825 Teaching methods [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Art as a Platform for Science Communication (415965)
Jill Pelto, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
Representing the majority and not the minority: the role of poetry in developing dialogue around climate change (366581)
Samuel Michael Illingworth, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom, Alice Bell, 1010UK, London, United Kingdom, Stuart Capstick, Cardiff University, School of Psychology, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Adam Corner, Climate Outreach, Oxford, United Kingdom, Piers Forster, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, Rosie Leigh, University of Leicester, National Centre for Earth Observation, Leicester, United Kingdom, Maria Loroño-Leturiondo, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M15, United Kingdom, Catherine Muller, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom, Harriett Richardson, University of Leeds, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Leeds, United Kingdom and Emily Shuckburgh, University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Curious Undular Bore (410679)
Stuart Pearson, Delft University of Technology, Hydraulic Engineering, Delft, Netherlands
Collaboration with the TEDx community to share climate science through music (448417)
Judy R Twedt, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States

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