Full-Circle

A Climate Symposium

There is a circular form on the far-right of the image with a spectrum of color from yellow to violet. The spectrum makes the circle appear spherical

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 the urgent challenge of global warming by addressing the scale and scope required for meaningful action. It explored the scientific, social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of climate change and the forces shaping our collective response.

 

Full-Circle is a summit designed to bring diverse knowledge and expertise together in response to the global climate emergency. The workshop will enable participants to engage with current climate research and collaboratively develop innovative, viable communication strategies capable of informing policy, influencing public behavior, and advancing meaningful climate action.

Participants will collaboratively:

  • Develop and articulate communication strategies that draw on climate science, human behavior, cultural dynamics, narrative, rhetoric, and the media arts to influence policymaking and individual choices and accelerate reductions in carbon emissions.
  • Translate climate research into publicly accessible forms, creating online resources and visualizations that communicate complex scientific knowledge and its implications for human and ecological systems.
  • Model a scalable, transdisciplinary approach to research and impact, demonstrating how universities can bring together scientific, humanistic, social, and creative expertise to address complex global challenges.
  • Activate diverse knowledge and expertise through transformative practice, using creative inquiry and the media arts to generate new ways of understanding, communicating, and responding to the climate emergency.

A Short Documentation Video from the Event

Participants were from diverse fields.

  • 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

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