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Drawing on community recipes, counter-maps and artworks, we explore our 'recipes for disaster justice' project in which we creatively collaborate with diverse communities across Lombok island, Indonesia to mobilise intersectional and inclusive disaster risk reduction.

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This multi-modal presentation shares recipes, lived experiences and artworks from our Resep Keadilan Bencana (Recipes for Disaster Justice) project, an arts-led collaboration 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 ethnography 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 multi-modal materials, this presentation explores 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 inequalities and exclusions, 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 creative collaborations point toward practices that can expand epistemic justice, enabling communities to shape the policies and priorities of state agencies, emergency responders and local authorities