After Ice: Telling the Story of A Warming World
As part of Priestley Centre for Climate Futures - Priestley Scholars' Program, Kate Simpson and I were able to co-organise an internal event at University of Leeds, yesterday - "๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐: ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ (๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐)" inviting expert speakers, Kieran Baxter and Konstantine Vlasis who are Iceland-based artists and researchers. The United Nations has declared #2025 as the ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ข๐๐ซ๐ฌโ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. The need to enhance and disseminate knowledge and best practices in glacier monitoring and water resource management becomes a collective goal under the triple planetary crisis. Interdisciplinary efforts for ambitious policy are crucial, where creative artistic works offer fresh and innovate perspectives, capturing aspects often overlooked by policy. As I come from a law-politics background, this event was an eye-opener for me personally - to the immense potential of interdisciplinary panels and research. Thank you Kate Simpson for your leadership for the event. Such a joy to collaborate with you!
More info on the speakers (check their amazing work!!):
Kieran Baxter is a photographer, digital media artist and communication design researcher based at the University of Icelandโs Hornafjรถrรฐur Research Centre. Check his works - https://www.climatevis.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/climate_vis;
Konstantine Vlasis is an environmental composer, percussionist, audio researcher, NYU Torch Fellow and Fulbright-National Geographic Award recipient and National Geographic Explorer. Check his works - https://www.konvlasis.com/ and https://explorers.nationalgeographic.org/directory/konstantine-vlasis