Please join us for the double launch of Chase Climate Justice Network’s Considering Climate Podcast and Climate Justice Conversations Cards, along with a workshop by Shinji Toya about the carbon cost of digital technologies.

As the world tips past climatic and environmental thresholds, the need to critically consider the ethics, impact and trajectory of our research has never been more urgent. In this event, we will engage with tools, resources and approaches that can help us think about the relationship of our research within an ever shifting social and ecological environment.

This event marks the launch of:

Climate Justice Conversations card game - a tool for discussion and thinking about the relationship between our research and environmental justice
Considering Climate -- a podcast showcasing a series of small projects aimed at understanding climate justice from a diverse range of critical and creative perspectives.

We will also be joined by Shinji Toya, to explore the climate implications of online and digital technologies as used in research and creative practice.

The event is best experienced in person, not least so we can offer you a copy of the Climate Justice Conversations game. The podcast coversation and card workshop will also be run in a hybrid mode, so people can join online.

Location

In-person: Goldsmiths library ground floor, New Cross.
(The entrance to the Library is on the corner of Dixon Road and Lewisham Way.)

Online participation: Zoom (link will be online on the day).

Schedule

1.30-1.40 Welcome and arrivals

1.40-1.50 Introduction

1.50-2.35 Considering Climate podcast launch - conversation between Kayonaaz Kalyanwala and Amrita Dasgupta

2.35-2.45 Break

2.45-3.30 Climate Justice Conversations game launch: intro and collective playthrough

3.40-4.40 Looking into the Carbon Impact of Online Digital Practice: a workshop with Shinji Toya

4.40-4.55 Close

For anyone who would like to hang on and continue discussions, we'll then go to a nearby pub.

Considering Climate Podcast launch

This event will mark the launch of the network’s Considering Climate podcast, or “C square”. The podcast is a series of reflections on small scale projects aimed at understanding climate crisis funded by the CHASE Climate Justice Network small grants. Each episode contains powerful information to help comprehend the climate realities of quotidian existence from various parts of the world, occupation, gender. It is a critical blend of discussions on imagining and knowing about sustainable universities, eco-anxiety, climate action, critical optimism, ecopsychology, amphibious lives, arts-based research, digital media, and environmental justice movements, the more -than-humans, ecological despoliation, techno-tantric embodiment. We’ll be joined by Kayonaaz Kalyanwala, one of the podcast contributors, for a lively discussion of these themes and more.

Climate Justice Conversation Card Game launch

(Four years in the making!) Climate Justice Conversations is a game designed by the CCJ Network for researchers and students in the arts and humanities, from medievalists to media theorists, philosophers to practitioners. Does it matter if we fly across the world to give a short conference presentation? Can we think about impact, or a career, with the future so uncertain? How might our research be complicit in epistemic and environmental injustices? Join us to explore how to research amidst environmental emergencies, and plot new approaches to living and inquiring justly.

Together we’ll try out the cards to discuss how our own research and disciplines are implicated in and can contribute to climate justice. We will bring a set of the card game for each attendee to take with them if they wish.

Shinji Toya -- Looking into the Carbon Impact of Online Digital Practice

This workshop is designed to raise technical and critical awareness around the environmental impact of online digital technology through presentations and interactive sessions. It will look at rates of carbon emissions of online digital technologies, various methods to reduce emissions, and how the carbon cost can become a relevant factor in shaping professional digital practice for artists and researchers, ethically and technically.

The workshop will invite participants to consider the responsibility of participants in relation to the impact of their digital practices on climate and, by extension, the effect of climate change on Global Majority countries.

We have room for 30 in-person participants, and there will be an opportunity to join online. Light refreshments will be provided.

Playing, listening, measuring