Grounded in First Nations knowledge systems and protocols, the Centre for Reworlding is a brave 100-year project that prioritises intergenerational justice and dynamic transdisciplinary collaborations. Through our Creative Resilience Labs, Joy Work, BILYA and other projects, programs and engagements, we advocate for the mainstream integration of culture & the arts in climate action and disaster management discourses, policy frameworks and all-years education.
The Centre for Reworlding amplifies arts + culture’s leadership capacity in climate emergency, disaster risk-reduction and resilience contexts via:
The development and presentation of multi-platform art projects;
Our innovative labs and workshops;
Cross-sectoral partnerships and trans-disciplinary collaborations;
Research and advocacy.
Building on decades of our combined practice-led research, networks and creative collaborative expertise in arts + culture, science, impact producing and climate resilience.
Cross-sectoral collaborations are key to our work and include partnerships with local councils, universities, galleries, disaster + climate emergency sector and artists from across disciplines + practices. Our work will reach new audiences through public talks, workshops, exhibitions, creative projects, and by expanding our vision and approach through meaningful conversations with non-creative sectors.
We are living in experimental times and therefore need new stories and methodologies to prepare and adapt as the complexity of risks and hazards and our increasing dependence on urban systems is resulting in greater vulnerability.
How we engage with this inevitable reality and prepare for such grounds is the Centre for Reworlding’s work. We know from our partners and collaborators that the climate emergency disaster risk reduction and resilience sector is not sophisticated enough to deal with long-term trajectories, inclusion, collaboration and mitigation.
Many know the WHAT and WHY, but lack the capacity, networks and HOW. Institutionalised ‘top-down’ approaches and existing ways of thinking/doing are failing communities to the increasing disaster risks and ways to adapt.
Without the luxury of time, there is an urgency in finding ways to collaborate, experiment, plan and shift the paradigm of climate emergency engagement and disaster resilience – and, this is where the Centre for Reworlding is speculating, holding, transforming and transmitting.