- There are more similarities than differences when it comes to disaster preparedness and creative practice -
reimagining climate resilience and disaster preparedness with communities
The Creative Resilience Lab shares creative and transdisciplinary collaborative methodologies, co-design and feedback loop experimentation (responsive, reflective and evaluative) to foster creative and agile thinking in climate emergency-related disaster preparedness with communities.
Utilising immersive and experiential processes, the Creative Resilience Lab aims to galvanise, catalyse and connect us with each other acknowledging the diverse skills, knowledge and lived experiences we all have to contribute, no matter how big or small.
Reworlders bring a new creative mindset to complex challenges such as the acute shocks and chronic stresses and the impacts of their interconnection. A feedback loop process - responsive, reflexive and experimental - fosters critical thinking, empathy and creativity, thus activating pathways for individuals to better understand their role, abilities and opportunities in collaboration with others in the complex and uncertain challenges ahead...thus empowering creative resilience.
This workshop will connect, mobilise and ignite new ways of thinking about and practising disaster resilience.
What we explore
How might working with artists and other creative practitioners reimagine disaster preparedness, response and recovery?
How can we apply context-specific creative scenario planning to better understand plausible futures and as a result pathways to be better prepared?
In what ways can amplify exisiting projects and programs rather than reinventing the wheel or duplicating effort?
How can we foster transdisciplinary and intersectional pathways for sustained collaboration and community engagement?
How might we prioritise intergenerational justice in our disaster preparedness, response and recovery?
Outcomes include:
Being awakened to the rekindling of connection with self, others and creative process;
Clarity in understanding the value of artists and intersectional perspectives bring to complexity, risk and meaning-making in a climate emergency context;
Experiencing a collaborative process and elements thereof that could be applied in various contexts, environments and scales; and,
Developing a broader understanding of a potential process to be applied to disaster resilience practice and building.
Who is this lab for?
Reworlders have expertise in tailoring context-specific workshops utilising dynamic processes for diverse audiences, ever mindful of accessibility and inclusion
These labs aim to make relevant, timely and context-specific activities for diverse groups including council staff, communities, emergency services, First Nations, artist-groups and businesses.
Ideal for inclusion in conferences, symposiums or staff professional development programs.
What is Creative Resilience?
Creative resilience is the capacity to generate and act on positive solutions under the pressures of challenge and change. It is reimagining our environment and shifting our perspective to discover new possibilities, even when our fight or flight response is kicked into high gear. Not to mention, it may just be the key to humansā success as a species. Reimagination of whatās possible. See more below about the language of creativity, resilience and lab.
Whatās in a name?
āCreativityā is one of the most in-demand skills in the world. Highly valued, yet largely understood. Our labs are facilitated by artists with a track record of working with diverse stakeholder groups and communities in disaster preparedness, social justice, trauma-informed practice and disability + inclusion.
āResilienceā discourse has become a global phenomenon in both the natural and social sciences often understood as a valued state-of-being to ābounce backā in times of crisis. In our labs we engage with the discourse between dominant narratives, critique, structures of power and language + meaning around āvulnerabilityā and āresilienceā.
āLab'ā is a term often used in the sciences but also in creative practice - a site for knowledge generation/transmission, experimentation, risk taking and questioning. We welcome a plurality of knowledges in each of these phases, not privileging one over another. What makes our labs different? Improvisation, relationality and dramaturgy. The CRL methodology is adaptive to the context of the people in the room allowing us to be perpetually responsive to those in the lab in forms that centre relationships and active participation + feedback.
In 2019, we partnered with the City of Vancouver to deliver our first Creative Resilience Lab. Since then we have delivered CRLs in Adelaide, Clarendon, Darebin and soonā¦Mount Alexander.
Check out this video to learn more about the lab and partnership
