The second workshop of the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Public Program, part of the Loss and Damage Collaborations Art and Culture Program, explored how the climate crisis is causing loss and damage to culture, identity, sense of place, heritage, ways of knowing and being, and the importance of bringing pluralistic ways of knowing to the Loss and Damage discourse. Through a dialogue between the Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council, Andrea Carmen, and sociocultural anthropologist Robert Albro who is Associate Director of Research at the American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, the workshop seeks to explore the challenges of understanding how the climate crisis is causing loss and damage to tangible, intangible —and often incommensurable things— such as culture, identity, sense of place and identity. The session will also explore the importance of bringing pluralistic ways of knowing to Loss and Damage policy making and solutions, including Indigenous Knowledge of loss and damage and Indigenous methods to address it, as well as the role of artists within this work.

Highlighting the challenges that front line communities and Indigenous Peoples face when working to ensure the inclusion of traditional knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge and Science, and the rights Indigenous Peoples within climate policy making and initiatives, the workshops' speakers will also share thoughts on what must happen to ensure meaningful change.

Find the reading list here.

Find the slide show here.