How can we support communities as they make sense of the climate crisis?
We are a group of researchers from the UBC School of Information investigating and supporting community-based sensemaking in response to the climate crisis. In collaboration with library partners, we aim to develop a greater understanding of how communities make sense of the climate crisis, and co-create strategies to translate understanding into local action.
What we aim to do
Through conversations and collaboration with libraries and information professionals, the project investigates:
- Engagement, meaning making, and action in relation to the climate crisis;
- Forms of information and knowledge exchange conveying complex and “difficult” information; and,
- Resources, practices, and platforms that may assist libraries in supporting community-based sense making and informed collective action.
Findings of the project aim to support local climate action in diverse communities across British Columbia.
Any questions?
Share your thoughts with us:
inform.climate@ubc.ca
Acknowledgements
This research is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We are grateful to have the privilege of working on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. Musqueam has stewarded this territory since time immemorial.
