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 responded to current efforts curbing global warming which lack the necessary scope and urgency. These impediments are not only scientific but increasingly social, cultural, political, and economic.
Workshop Goals
Given the shifts in climate and related phenomena in 2024, Full-Circle is a summit amid a global emergency. The diverse knowledge and expertise presented in this workshop will enable participants to learn and utilize current climate research to develop innovative and viable communication strategies. These strategies will be publicly available online. The work is based on climate science and considers its impact on humans and ecosystems. It will be aimed at policy change, considering human behavior and cultural dynamics, narrative, and rhetoric. The outcome will take the form of a visualization, the media arts, which will include creative inquiry and arts expertise.
Participants will collaboratively:
- Integrate our thinking and articulate communication strategies that are creative and insightful enough to shift policymaking and people’s individual choices sufficiently to reduce carbon emissions and level or reduce climate change.
- Model, in a scalable way, the broadly transdisciplinary, impact-oriented work that universities can do to optimize the impact of their research.
- Integrate the transformative practice of your knowledge and diverse expertise to meet challenges and seize opportunities of our time.
A Short Documentation Video from the Event
Participant Eligibility
We seek 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