Networks and Engagement
Accountable Adaptation will build and support a community of practice to share experiences and grow together across the programme. Our focus is on supporting and convening early career researchers working on related topics from across our focus regions. We seek to build connections and capabilities for working through equitable research partnerships across the Global South and Global North, and support researchers, practitioners and policymakers to work with and integrate different forms of knowledge from their different domains.
Please get in touch with us to join our network and hear about our opportunities!
Creative Collaborations
Exploring climate futures through games
We collaborated with the social arts charity Coney to explore climate futures through games. The project brought together our research around climate change adaptation and Coney’s creative practice and expertise using the power of play. After an initial period of collaborative research and development, Coney created a live in person game that uses the future to understand how we might address climate challenges in the present. The game is called ‘The Tardis’ and can be used in a variety of contexts, with a range of different groups. You can download this resource by clicking on the link below.
The Tardis Game
Using theatre to explore extreme heat
This project with Wise Ram theatre sought to explore the potential of performance and theatre to convey the urgency of climate related scenarios such as extreme heat. Wise Ram have previously addressed climate issues such as sea level rise through a production called ‘Decommissioned’. This collaboration built upon our expertise of extreme heat to develop a new piece of work which responds to the possible scenarios we will be confronted with. After exploratory workshops together, Wise Ram developed a script around cool spaces and the reality of how these may be experienced as we get to grips with rising temperatures. You can download the audio script below by clicking on the link below.
Extreme heat audio script
Interdisciplinary creative collaborations
This collaboration brings together three research teams from UCL, The University of Reading and The University of Manchester to work with the social change charity Coney on a project related to time and the climate crisis. Engaging the public in meaningful change around the climate crisis is challenging when the concept of time and impacts can be so diffuse. This project seeks to explore this by bringing together diverse academic research interests across temporalities and methodologies, including the disciplines of archaeology (long-term), geography and politics (medium-term), and engineering (present). By collectively building upon these areas, the project seeks to use time as a way to engage people in the climate crisis and research. This project is currently ongoing and we hope to share our outputs soon.
