Climate Narratives Lab: Unpacking Key Sessions in Santos, Brazil
CLIMATE NARRATIVES LAB
The Global South at the Heart of Solutions for Well-Being!
Surge X Media and The Instituto Procomum (IP), a Brazilian civil society association, have joined forces to promote the first international meeting of Climate Narratives LAB: the Global South at the center of solutions for well-being.
This meeting is a partnership with Surge Africa through its strategic communication arm, Surge X Media, and is part of a broader agenda of LAB Procomum to strengthen the climate justice agenda in the Baixada Santista region, in São Paulo, and of Instituto Procomum to connect and strengthen both community and institutionalized solutions, aiming for the convergence so necessary at this moment.
The Climate Narratives Lab will take place in two phases:
1. International Meeting of the Climate Narratives Lab which will occur between June 19 and 20, 2024, at LAB Procomum in Santos. The meeting is open and free, with the participation of guests from Baixada Santista, from across the country, and from Nigeria. Check out the schedule below.
2. Citizen Lab: Climate Narratives Lab, a flash laboratory that will take place on June 21 and 22 at LAB Procomum in Santos, focused on prototyping ideas and projects.
About the institutions
Surge X Media is a strategic communication initiative that promotes impactful narratives, cultural movements, and narrative shifts in the global south. Surge X is a project of Surge Africa, a non-profit organization designing and implementing innovative measures to enhance climate adaptation approaches through policies, media, and resilient development. Recognizing that climate change is multifaceted and must be tackled with strategies at various societal levels, Surge Africa’s programs are designed to strategically advance climate resilience, influencing and promoting an inclusive decentralization of people, energy, economy, and governance.
Instituto Procomum (IP) is a non-profit organization that has existed since 2016 and is committed to the transition to a fair, democratic and plural model of society. They do this by focusing on creativity and citizen innovation, strengthening networks and communities and investing in new protagonists, thus expanding the possibilities of a truly popular democracy. Since 2017, they have run a citizen’s laboratory in Santos, São Paulo, Lab Procomum. Through LAB Procomum, IP is connected and mobilized to strengthen citizenship and the quality of life of the population of the Baixada Santista region. Since 2019, they have been working through community activation and citizen innovation methodologies, with the effects of the climate emergency, environmental racism and its impacts on the population – notably people who already suffer from less access to basic rights such as decent housing, basic sanitation, and others.
Programme
International Meeting Climate Narratives LAB
Climate Narratives LAB
June 19, 2024
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
The Climate Crisis and the Global South: What Model Brought Us Here?
The causes, the perpetrators, the predatory colonial model.
Participants:
Marina Guzzo
UNIFESP
Moderator
Artist and researcher Marina Guzzo focuses her creations on the interface between the body and the landscape. She is an Associate Professor at Unifesp on the Baixada Santista Campus and a researcher at the Body and Art Laboratory at the Institute of Health and Society.
Nasreen Al-Amin
Surge Africa
Speaker
Nasreen Al-Amin is the founder and executive director of Surge Africa, an environmental sustainability expert in Nigeria, with years of experience in the fields of policy, diplomacy, development, and communication.
Simone Takuá
Flora Tupi
Speaker
Simone Takuá, daughter of a midwife, was born and raised in the village within the Guarani Mbya culture. She holds a degree in Pedagogy from Peruíbe FPBE College and is an important leader and phytotherapist of the Piaçaguera village in Peruíbe, São Paulo.
Ana Sanches
Instituto Pólis
Speaker
Ana Sanches is a PhD candidate in Social Change and Political Participation at the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities at the University of São Paulo (USP). She researches Decolonial Ecologies, Participation and Social Change, Justice, and Environmental Racism.
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Cocktail and Artistic Presentation
Wescritor
Wescritor is an indigenous rapper and multi-artist from the Tupinambá people of Olivença, Bahia. Born in São Vicente (SP), Wes addresses indigenous issues and reverberates ancestrality in his rhymes. He moves between lyrics of resistance, reflection, love and feelings.
Nhaderu Rembiguai Choir
The Nhaderu Rembiguai Choir belongs to the indigenous community of Paranapuã, an indigenous territory that resists in the municipality of São Vicente, São Paulo.
June 20, 2024
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Breakfast and Welcome
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
What is the magnitude of the problem when it comes to the climate crisis? Perspectives on data and information in the construction of effective solutions.
Participants:
Thaynah Gutierrez
Rede para uma Adaptação Antiracista
Moderator
Thaynah Gutierrez Gomes, 25, is a public administrator with a degree from FGV-EAESP and a postgraduate degree in Energy Transition and Human Rights from CLACSO Ecuador. She works as executive secretary of the Network for Anti-Racist Adaptation and as a consultant on culture, social participation and climate change.
Clara Sacco
data_labe
Speaker
Clara Sacco is the Executive Director responsible for institutional development and co-founder of data_labe. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Media Studies from the Federal Fluminense University and has a professional trajectory related to projects that connect communication, technologies, cultural production, youth, and political mobilization.
Alexandra Sampaio
Unisanta
Speaker
Alexandra is a lecturer and coordinator of the Hydrodynamic Research Center at the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidade Santa Cecília in Santos. She coordinated the implementation of the first operational-level water quality prediction system in Brazil for the beaches of Santos, São Vicente, and the estuarine zone.
Fábio Tatsubô
Prefeitura de Santos
Speaker
Fábio Tatsubô has been working in journalism since 1995. He served as coordinator of the Transparency department and Head of the Ombudsman, Transparency, and Control Department (OTC) from 2017 to 2022. Currently, he is the coordinator of the SDG Committee and works on monitoring the Government Plan.
Coronel Daniel Onias
Defesa Civil de Santos
Speaker
Lieutenant Colonel of the Santos Civil Defense, formerly worked at the 17th Fire Department Battalion. In 1988, he coordinated the Civil Defense of São Sebastião, in the northern coast.
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Prevent, anticipate, adapt, and change. How to build convergent solutions and shared governance in solutions?
Participants:
Pedro Torres
UFABC
Moderator
Pedro Torres is a Social Scientist and Urban Planner. He is currently a Professor in the Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences (PROCAM/USP) and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Territorial Planning at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). He works on management and planning topics, with an emphasis on fair adaptation to climate change/climate justice and coastal cities.
Samia Sulaiman
Secretaria Nacional das periferias
Speaker
Samia Sulaiman is the General Coordinator of the Articulation Coordination of the Risk Mitigation and Prevention Department of the National Peripheries Secretariat of the Ministry of Cities. She holds a Master’s degree in Planning and Management of Natural Risks from the University of Alicante, Spain.
Mario Bueno
Prefeitura Municipal de São Vicente
Speaker
Mario Bueno holds degrees in Marine Sciences (Unifesp) and Environmental Engineering (Unifesp), and a master’s in Bioproducts and Bioprocesses (Unifesp). Currently, he serves as the Deputy Secretary of the Environment at the Municipality of São Vicente.
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Climate Narratives: How to Produce Mobilizing Communication?
Participants:
Tatiane Matheus
Climate Justice Lab
Moderator
Tatiane Matheus is a researcher in Climate Justice, Gender, and Environmental Racism. She is the author of the book “Feminine Voices for Green and Inclusive Economy”. With over 20 years of experience in journalism, she is a responsible leader at the BMW Foundation and a member of the Gender and Climate Working Group at the Climate Observatory.
Muhammad Shamsuddin Ibrahim
Surge Africa
Speaker
Muhammad Ibrahim is a multi-talented individual with expertise in resilience building, climate justice, digital storytelling, and grassroots organizing. He is recognized for his award-winning digital activism and currently focuses on climate adaptation, climate mobility, clean cooking, and environmental governance. He works as a resilience associate at Surge Africa.
Leonardo Leal
Sleeping Giants
Speaker
Leonardo Leal is the co-founder and Communications Director of Sleeping Giants Brasil, a progressive organization of digital activists that claims to anonymously combat hate speech and misinformation on the internet. In four years, the movement has garnered support from over a million followers on its social media platforms and has raised awareness among 1054 companies, with the total demonetized from harmful discourse exceeding R$200 million.
Thux Oliveira (Tuane)
Perifa Connection
Speaker
Thux Oliveira, also known as Tuane, is the Executive Director of PerifaConnection, a platform aimed at challenging narratives about Brazilian peripheries. Hailing from the favela of Duque de Caxias, she holds a degree in law from UFRJ and specializes in the areas of Right to the City, land access, popular advocacy, and legal sociology. She is an academic researcher in the fields of agrarian reform, housing rights, social movements, and popular legal assistance.
Nathalia Rocha
Morada Comum
Speaker
Nathalia Rocha is the Executive Director of Morada Comum, a global network that promotes the common good for the environment by strengthening and helping to create civic institutions that empower people to collectively build the common good for the environment.
Daniel Akinola Oladoja
Strategic Communications Expert
Speaker
Daniel is a strategic communications expert with more than five years of experience in the field of communications and environmental sustainability. He is committed to climate justice and sustainability as a vehicle for green, resilient, and inclusive development that truly democratizes the dividends of climate wealth to the most vulnerable in Africa.
Adriano Liziero
Geopanoramas
Speaker
Adriano Liziero is a geographer, text editor, and environmental documentarian. He is the creator of Geopanoramas, a sustainability communication project with over 100,000 followers on social media. He has been recognized by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as an author of educational innovation in Latin America. Currently, he is supported by the Open Society Foundations in environmental and climate communication initiatives and develops educational content focused on responsible energy transition.
Climate Change Laboratory
On May 21st and 22nd, 2024, the 20 individuals selected after an open call put together by The Procomum Institute (IP) and SurgeX Media will comprise the team of the 2024 Climate Narratives Lab. This will be an immersive experience in the form of a rapid laboratory aimed at prototyping low-cost and easily implementable initiatives that draw attention to the urgency of climate change in the Baixada Santista region.
The selection process sought individuals with experience in climate solutions and impactful communication to develop prototypes and communities of practice addressing the urgent communication of local climate phenomena. The projects could fit into digital activism, internet, and international cooperation, data and common science, and narratives, art, and activism.
Here is the list of selected participants for the 2024 Climate Narratives Lab.
Participants, who will receive a stipend of R$500, resources for prototypes, assistance with transportation and meals during the days of activity, will decide on actions and prototypes within predefined categories. They will engage in an immersive process, sharing ideas and knowledge, and receiving mentorship. The goal is to create communities of practice to promote a sustainable and equitable Baixada Santista.
A citizen laboratory is a collaborative and experimental space where individuals from different backgrounds and knowledge areas come together to develop innovative solutions to social and environmental problems. These laboratories are characterized by the active participation of civil society, which contributes its knowledge, experiences, and creativity. Thus, we recognize that every territory already has makers, creators, and innovative agents, not necessarily having all the ready answers.
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Collaboration and Co-creation:
Involves collective participation in the process of creating and developing solutions, promoting the exchange of knowledge and experiences among participants.
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Diversity of Profiles:
Selects individuals with different skills, knowledge, and experiences, ensuring a multidisciplinary and inclusive approach.
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People-Centered Methodology:
Prioritizes the needs, ideas, and proposals of participants, creating an environment of learning and mutual development.
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Mentorship and Guidance:
Provides support and guidance from mentors and experts to assist in the development of proposed solutions.
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Resources and Support:
Provides stipends, resources for prototyping, and logistical support, such as meals and transportation assistance, to facilitate effective participation.
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Care:
Providing individual and collective care actions throughout all days of the laboratory, with an interdisciplinary and integrative focus centered on the unique and common needs of the people involved in the laboratory.
For us, a citizen laboratory is an open innovation environment where civil society can proactively engage in creating solutions to common challenges, reinforcing collective well-being and social justice.
The Laboratory for selected participants will take place on the 21st and 22nd and is a follow-up to the open International Meeting that will take place on the 19th and 20th. It is a methodology developed from the creations that emerge from communities generating better living conditions, which we call citizen innovation.