Climate change is a threat to humanity, and the window of opportunity to significantly mitigate its impacts is rapidly closing. Climate risks are worsening faster and more severely than anticipated, making adaptation increasingly challenging. In cities, the climate crisis intensifies existing risks, such as heat waves, floods, landslides, and limited drinking water supplies. Considering that more than half the world's population lives in these areas, extreme weather events in these spaces result in severe socioeconomic impacts and high morbidity and mortality rates.
This activity proposes a collaborative design marathon – in the style of a “hackathon” – that invites participants to build imaginaries about the adaptation of Brazilian cities to climate change.
The goal is to encourage the collective construction of visual representations that express strategies, solutions, and desirable futures for adapted cities, from a perspective of socio-environmental justice and aligned with the challenges faced by cities in the Global South. The illustrations should convey, in an accessible and engaging manner, concepts related to resilient and low-carbon urban development, disaster risk management, water management, sustainable mobility with an emphasis on active modes and public transportation, the presence of nature in urban spaces, nature-based solutions, low-carbon construction materials and techniques adapted to local biomes, urban afforestation, urban biodiversity, and decent, safe, and climate-adapted housing.
Registration is free and open to all interested parties. We invite designers, architecture and urban planning professionals, visual artists, communicators, climate change experts, architecture students, and anyone else who might be interested.
An image will be selected, and its creators will be hired to develop the final version. The final image will be licensed under the following license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This means the image can be shared and adapted as long as credit is given and the use is non-commercial.
The criteria for selecting the winning image are:
– Clarity and adherence to the proposal: ability to communicate the proposed solution in a direct, understandable and structured manner and in line with the thematic proposal.
– Simplicity, clarity and coherence: clear visual representation of the concepts proposed by the notice.
– Accessibility: presentation of concepts in a way that is understandable to different audiences.
– Synthesis: condensation of central ideas into an objective representation
– Visual impact: creating an attractive and memorable image that attracts attention and remains remembered.
– Graphic representation: quality, coherence, and suitability of the compositions of graphic representations. Graphic representations are understood as the set of drawings, texts, colors, textures, and other elements that facilitate and detail the understanding of the proposed solution.
– Climate justice approach: the proposal must consider the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the proposed solutions, in order to promote climate justice in this context.
Subsequently, the images produced and selected during the hackathon will be exhibited at a location and date to be defined.
Free
Vacancies: 50
Registration
Registrations must be made by form available here.
Selection will be made in order of registration.
Registration will be open until the start of the Workshop, on site, as long as there are spaces available.
Image credit: Jeffrey Raven, 2016.
If you have any questions, interested parties may contact the IABsp Climate and City Working Group via the following email address: gt_emergenciaclimatica@iabsp.org.br