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The Climate Justice
Field School
Why?
Following the creation of Vancouver’s first Climate Justice Charter, questions emerged about how to put it into practice. The Climate Justice Field School stepped in to begin implementation at the city scale.
How can we reimagine our relationship to
Power using climate justice principles?
How?
The Climate Justice Field School was a highly collaborative project; we worked with staff from the city of Vancouver and community members, including planners, policy-makers, artists, community organizers, sustainability practitioners, activists, designers, and scholars.
Our host team facilitated and organized, but the directions we followed and the learnings came from the entire group.
We hosted over 20 sessions, mostly in natural spaces, to explore connections beyond meeting rooms. The sessions consisted of walks, immersive learning experiences, and co-design workshops at various sites across Vancouver. We also explored asynchronous ways to keep the work and our reflections going outside of sessions.
One of our last sessions was oriented towards collective sense-making. It was not oriented towards finding a solution or an answer to the work we had started and were continuing, but an opportunity to collectively reflect on what we were ready for, what implementation could mean at that time, and what was necessary before continuing.
Then, what did we learn?
The project was not about finding a linear solution, but about creating a space for exploring possibilities and sharing. As part of this sharing, we hosted the Designing Climate Justice Symposium, a time to scale up our ways of doing.
Our collective learnings and further details on our process can be found here.
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