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Drawing on community recipes and artworks, this presentation traces how creative feminist and decolonial praxis and grassroots solidarities open new vocabularies and inclusive infrastructures for disaster justice - combining a focus on climate, social and environmental justice.

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This multi-modal presentation shares recipes, perspectives and artworks from our Resep Keadilan Bencana (Recipes for Disaster Justice) project, a collaborative arts-led initiative led with multiply marginalised communities in Lombok, Indonesia. It reflects on our creative feminist praxis to shift narratives, centre care, and transform power relations around climate change and disasters. We ask how applied and creative methodologies can centre local communities in disaster management and prioritise their lived experiences, epistemologies, and embodied knowledges.

Working with over 150 participants including women, fishers, farmers, former migrant workers, youth, people with disabilities, teachers, LGBTQIA+ people, activists and child marriage survivors, in partnership with 17 civil society organisations, and a collective of artists, our collaboration has generated 131 community-led 'recipes', 123 creative artefacts, four counter-maps of hazard multipliers, and a community archive of local innovations and everyday practices of care, repair, and mutual support. Drawing on these co-produced materials, this presentation traces how creative feminist and decolonial praxis and grassroots solidarities open new vocabularies and inclusive infrastructures for disaster justice - combining a focus on climate, social and environmental justice. It explores how disaster management - and disasters themselves - reproduce and exacerbate extractive and exclusionary development logics—particularly for women, people with disabilities, and rural communities—while everyday local adaptations, innovations, and creativity articulate alternative visions of safety, solidarity, and care. Counter-maps and inclusive infrastructures arising from our work point toward practices that expand epistemic justice, enabling communities to shape the policies and priorities of state agencies, emergency responders and local authorities.