Picturing Climate: Participatory Photography and Narrative Storytelling for Climate Change Education

Summer programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019) during which young people explored questions of environment, pollution and climate change in the context of post-conflict societies using devised theatre, film and photography. The programme was run by Most Mira, and part of the AHRC-funded Picturing Climate: Participatory Photography and Narrative Storytelling for Climate Change Education. Photos: Maja Milatovic-Ovadia.

Picturing Climate: Participatory Photography and Narrative Storytelling for Climate Change Education brings together artists, researchers and grassroots arts and culture organisations in Cuba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jordan and the UK to explore the potential of arts- and humanities-based methodologies for developing local and international educational capacity on climate change-induced food and livelihoods insecurities. Project participants came together to organise participatory, knowledge-exchange programmes in Cuba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jordan and the UK using a variety of methods and approaches. Our work began in Havana, Cuba in April 2019, continued in Bosnia in August 2019, and Jordan in September 2019. The project culminated in a free public programme at the Tate Modern in London, between November 28th and December 1st, 2019.

School children participating in the urban gardening activities organised by Riera Studio in Havana, Cuba. The activities were part of the programme devised by Riera Studio as part of the AHRC-funded Picturing Climate: Participatory Photography and Narrative Storytelling for Climate Change Education. Photos: RIERA STUDIO

Watch a film made by the young people who participated in the summer theatre programme run by Most Mira in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The young people involved produced four short theatre plays, which were then filmed and closed-captioned. This is one of those films.