JOY WORK in DESPERATE TIMES
Art, Climate and Disasters

Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025
Time: 1pm - 3pm
Location: ANU School of Art & Design Lecture Theatre, Building 105, Room 1.42
Format: Interactive in-person workshop

In this interactive workshop, Dr Jen Rae and Claire G. Coleman from the Centre for Reworlding will share their unique approach to art and climate adaptation working with communities, artists, local government and emergency services in disaster preparedness rehearsals and labs where failure, risk, experimentation and play become ‘learning together’ ingredients for navigating complexities and unknowns. Grounded in First Nations knowledge systems, this work addresses decolonisation, intergenerational justice, and resilience, offering insight into how creative methodologies and speculative futuring can support communities to form deeper transdisciplinary collaborations focused on disaster preparedness and resilience…where we might find ‘joy work’ in desperate times.