Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss Research Presentation, 12 April–31 May 2024, ADM Gallery, Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
MOE Academic Research Fund Tier 2[MOE-T2EP40120-0002]
Principal Investigator Ute Meta Bauer Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore; Professor, NTU ADM
Co-Principal Investigator Sang-Ho Yun Director, Remote Sensing Lab; Associate Professor, EEE and ASE, NTU
Collaborators Nabil Ahmed Professor, NTNU; Founder, INTERPRT Hervé Raimana Lallemant-Moe Director General, Digital Economy, French Polynesia; Public Law Associate, UFP Kristy H.A. Kang Associate Professor, ASU Guigone Camus Research Engineer, CEA-DRF Saclay Armin Linke Filmmaker, Photographer, Professor, AdBK Lisa Rave Filmmaker, Photographer
Research Team Adha Shaleh Research Fellow, NTU ADM; Soh Kay Min Research Associate, NTU ADM Ng Mei Jia Research Assistant, NTU ADM
This project examines how climate crisis and cultural loss interconnect. The core objective is the co-production of knowledge that can lead to a changed understanding of environmental justice, which, in turn, will suggest changes in existing legal and policy frameworks. The project hypothesises that a fundamental connection between people and their environments has been lost in contemporary urban contexts, resulting in feelings of indifference towards the climate crisis or unexplained feelings of climate anxiety.
It deploys a research team with transdisciplinary methods to build on emerging environmental jurisprudence in the Pacific region and produce narrative visualisations demonstrating the links between cultural loss and climate change. By combining scholarly knowledge with cultural and artistic practices, the project will develop an innovative framework for addressing the impact of accelerated climate change. Using tools from visual studies and forensic architecture, from ethnography and law, to make scientific evidence on climate change socially robust and impactful, it will also create a relay between local perspectives and knowledge generated in different academic fields. Data visualisation and audiovisual presentations of ecological and cultural loss will be instrumental to transform ecological grief and loss into catalysts for climate action. Such narrative visualisations make visible the necessity to re-establish a direct relation between human societies and the environment, especially in the rapidly-changing urban fabric of a metropolis like Singapore.
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