Paper short abstract:

This presentation narrates and performs a critical and creative dialogue between the media/communication scholar, Julie Doyle, and the artist, David Harradine, to explore ways that climate change can be differently visualized, communicated and embodied through creative dialogue and practice.

Paper long abstract:

Arts engagement with climate change may focus upon the poetic, imaginative, emotional and sensory as a way of unearthing and revealing different ways of seeing, perceiving and understanding our changing climate. Environmental communication scholars typically explore the ways in which climate change is mediated through media and cultural practices, seeking to understand how climate is constructed, communicated and contested in order to facilitate social and political change. How can these different 'ways of seeing' and 'ways of making meaning' be brought together, and what can they learn from each other in the context of climate communication? Reflecting upon the experiences of a Leverhulme Artist in Residence project about climate change, this presentation narrates and performs a critical and creative dialogue between the media/communication scholar, Julie Doyle, and the artist, David Harradine, to explore ways that climate change can be differently visualized, communicated and embodied through creative practice.