Art and Culture

Repair and Reparation in the Context of Loss and Damage from Climate Change: a Primer for Artists

By the Loss and Damage Collaboration
04 / 10 / 2024
Video credit: Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage, Repair and Reparation in the Context of Loss and Damage from Climate Change: a Primer for Artists, 04 October, 2024.

The third workshop of the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Public Program will explore how repair, reparation and remedy can be understood and implemented in the context of loss and damage from climate change.      Structured around a dialogue between climate scientist and climate activist Isatis M. Cintron-Rodriguez of Columbia University and the Ace Observatory, philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, who is the author of Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations, and Ashish Ghadiali, the Founder/Director of Radical Ecology, co-chair of of the Black Atlantic Innovation Network and Co-Principal Investigator of Addressing the New Denialism, the workshop will consider: the limitations that stop Loss and Damage Policy under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from being able to deliver reparations, why we need to reconsider reparations as a global future-oriented project that will address the climate crisis, and the role that artists and critical thinkers can play in climate repair, reparation and remedy.  

Find the slide show here.