Brown, especially through IBES, the Cogut Institute, the Brown Arts Institute, and SPH’s Information Futures initiative, has existing research strengths in climate misinformation/disinformation, the environmental humanities, climate narratives and storytelling, and visual arts.
ECF will leverage these strengths to:
- Envision climate futures through multidisciplinary collaborations, community and cross-department dialogues, exhibitions, screenings, and meetings between affected communities and Brown-based scientists, engineers, artists, writers, filmmakers, and historians
- Develop compelling, evidence-based visual, sound, multimedia and artistic narratives about past, present, and future effects of climate change
- Combat disinformation and climate denial by identifying key actors and strategies advancing climate disinformation
- Provide environmental, racial, and multispecies justice approaches, images, and stories of resilience in the face of climate disaster