In January 2025, scientists, humanists, culture producers, and policy experts from around the USA joined together to imagine and design new ways of communicating to accelerate and broaden our human response to climate change. The workshop was a response to the fact that current efforts to curb global warming lack the necessary scope and urgency, and that remaining impediments are not only scientific but increasingly social, cultural, political, and economic.
Workshop Goals
Given the shifts in climate and related phenomena in 2024 alone, Full-Circle can now only be considered a summit in the midst of a global emergency. Even if this seems alarmist and overblown, it would be useful to operate under this assumption just in case it is not. The diverse knowledge and expertise present in the workshop will enable participants to learn about and utilize current climate research to develop innovative and viable communication strategies. These will be published online and be made public. The work will be based on climate science and informed by knowledge of its likely impact on human beings and ecosystems. It will be aimed at behavior change and policy objectives and incorporate theories of change that account for knowledge of human behavior and cultural dynamics, narrative, and rhetoric. All of this will be designed to take form through visualization, the media arts, creative inquiry, and arts expertise.
- Integrate your thinking and articulate communication strategies creative and insightful enough to shift policymaking and people’s individual choices sufficiently to carbon sufficiently to level or reduce climate change.
- Model, in a scalable way, the broadly transdisciplinary, impact-oriented work universities can do to optimize the impact of their research.
- Experience the transformative practice of integrating your knowledge and expertise with that of others whose work is very different from your own but equally essential for meeting challenges and seizing opportunities of our time.
A Short Documentation Video from the Event
Participant Eligibility
We seeking researchers and scholars in the following and related areas who are interested in integrating their knowledge and expertise with that of colleagues in different fields, and who are passionate about curbing climate change:
- Climate Sciences
- Geography
- Computer Science
- Data Science
- Machine Learning and AI
- Information Systems
- Human-Centered Computing
- Media Arts
- Data Visualization
- Story, Narrative, Rhetoric
- Behavioral Science
- Social-Community Psychology
- Anthropology
- Political Science
- Public Policy
- Public Health
Registration for the workshop is now closed.
If you have any questions please email info@irc.umbc.edu and put “FULL-CIRCLE” as the subject.
NSF Grant Number: 2118285