Organiser: Michael Chew (Australia, online). Local facilitator: David Chatting (Newcastle)

This free workshop explores creating photographic representations of locally situated environmental actions and disseminating them globally, as an invitation for the others across the world to creatively respond to these photo-stories. In this way we hope to iteratively build up multi-layered visual dialogues and provocations designed to challenge thinking about acting sustainably.

This workshop is hybrid - physically attending participants will go on a photo-walk, while online participants will create photo canvases as springboards for their post-workshop photographs. Together these visual representations of locally-situated environmental actions can invite viewers to creatively respond to these images.

These emerging photo-stories will also act as catalysts for specific environmental actions - through participants being invited to make personal action commitments and invitations to others to take environmental actions inspired by the dialogue.

Initial questions may include:

-How to visualise actions beyond superficial environmental actions (recycling, green consumerism etc)?

-How to visualise collective, community actions beyond individual actions?

-How to visualise environmental justice as a process rather than an environmental utopic destination?

-How to visualise environmental actions beyond human agents, giving voice to more-than-human actors?

No prior knowledge required, just a willingness to think creatively and have fun visualising a better world!

This workshop has a limited capacity so please cancel your ticket if you are unable to make the event.

For online participants:

Zoom Details

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88376786038?pwd=bGVObmluN1JBeWtmVUpVQlBvV0ZTUT09

Meeting ID: 883 7678 6038

Passcode: 704113

PDC 22 SA: Pass the parcel: visualizing environmental action (HYBRID)