Who has the right to help, speak, or respond in a crisis? How close to home does that crisis have to be?
On 11 November 2026 CIIP, together with the Ocean Justice research group, will join the 'Home in Crisis' project and the Sustainability and Resilience Institute for a creative experts workshop addressing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 'is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change'. Their work feeds into climate policy and law that impacts each and every one of us, but perhaps especially those of us who live in coastal communities like Southampton. Different kinds of experts around the world are invited to give responses to and feedback on IPCC reports to help ready them for final publication.
Typically these are experts from (for example) physical or social sciences, but the IPCC wants wider and more diverse feedback. In this making workshop we will invite arts and humanities experts to weigh in on the reports from Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability using our own methods. We may not be the experts who first come to mind when we use the words 'climate change experts', but as the 'Home in Crisis' project shows, arts and humanities experts have vital and central contributions to make to these discussions.
Following the workshop we will collate the creative responses and submit them to the IPCC by the its 4 December 2026 deadline.
This workshop will take place with the Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group at Winchester School of Art, but is also open to member of the Ocean Justice research group and other colleagues across the university. In the workshop we will think through 'home in crisis' by creatively responding to the IPCC reports. Materials will be provided, but you are also welcome to bring your own preferred supplies.
Questions we might ask ourselves as part of this session include: What are the implications of being distanced from but connected to Southampton at the University of Southampton's satellite campus in Winchester School of Art? What are the implications of offering commentary as experts from a field who is considered 'marginal to' or 'not at home in' a discussion? Are there any communities that are not impacted by what happens to the ocean? In what ways can we educate ourselves on, feel with, and stand in solidarity alongside coastal communities?
Event catering and transport costs for those not based in Winchester are generously provided by the CHANCE 'Home in Crisis' project. Please contact Dina Lupin (D.Lupin@soton.ac.uk) for details.