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In winter 2024/25, FF worked with the UCL Climate Action Unit (CAU) and the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative to deliver the first Climate Policy Creative Fellowship.
Most creative projects about climate change have the public as their intended audience. The story ideas developed in the Fellowship focused on policymakers as an audience, giving them tools to communicate or strategies for building their own agency.
Over three months we worked with eight fellows, carefully selected from over six hundred applicants. In the early workshops, the fellows gained knowledge from neuroscience, insights on how science is traditionally communicated to policymakers, and the role of values and emotions in storytelling. As the Fellows started to develop ideas for creative projects, they also tested their thinking through a workshop at Chatham House with a range of staff from different government departments. Fellows developed their prototype narrative experiences, working together as a cohort and interacting with a range of policy experts. You read more about the Fellowship on the CAU website.
The Fellowship was hosted by the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative.
CAU led on exploring the sectoral links between policymaking and academia, as well as the neuroscience of communicating about climate change.
FF led on facilitating new creative practices and unpicking how creative experiences can help audiences engage with a subject like climate change.
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Credits
FELLOWS Imo Dall, Lara Ferris, Holly Greenland, Alex Lockwood, Marion Osieyo, Jess Riches, Michelle Sanders, Ruby Spencer Pugh | FOR CAU Kris De Meyer & Dan Jonasus | FOR FF Dan Barnard & Rachel Briscoe | FOR SCRI Laurie Laybourn | WITH THANKS TO Antony Froggatt, Marcus Lyon, Phil Tovey.