Reassembling Our Climate Future: What’s Next?

In partnership with South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre

In late 2023, the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority conducted a citizens’ assembly on climate change. One hundred citizens of South Yorkshire came together to learn and deliberate on climate action. They produced 33 recommendations for climate action and resilience.

The Climate ReAssemblies project at The University of Sheffield poses the question, what next? We worked with a small group of citizens to create scenarios based on the assembly recommendations. The scenarios were then animated and included in an interactive documentary. The aim was to inspire hope and action in the face of seemingly insurmountable global climate issues.

At this event you will get to observe and take part in scenario building activities. We will show you animations from the interactive documentary to give you some inspiration, before jumping into some quick-fire scenario building. In groups, you will be asked to envisage how recommendations from the South Yorkshire Citizens’ Assembly on Climate could be implemented in your lives and neighbourhoods. 

Using novel and creative methodologies we want to challenge the status quo by taking the ‘what next’ question out of the sole custody of policy makers and elites. The project proposes a methodology for meaningful engagement that invites citizens to co-produce visions for climate action, which value their lived experiences and knowledge of where they live.  

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