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Amplifying community voices for sustainable climate adaptation. Future Yetu: a digital storytelling project in the Nairobi slum of Korogocho
There is increasing awareness of how crucial is developing participatory approaches that could effectively dismantle knowledge hierarchies and facilitate conversations across various sectors of the society in environmental decision-making (Konisky and Beierle, Soc Nat Resour 14(9):815–826, 2001). Digital storytelling and other creative approaches can assist individuals to overcome barriers to participation (Liguori et al., Front Environ Sci 8:589856, 2021) as well as having a collective function in building a sense of community (McEwen et al., Reweaving urban water-community relations: creative, participatory river ‘daylighting’ and local hydrocitizenship. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2020). Nevertheless, storytelling is often applied as a small-group workshop activity, that can rarely produce large-scale impact beyond the community in which it is applied, and often reveals its limitations in the replicability of the creative process without the presence of an expert facilitator. The Future Yetu project is described and analyzed as a case study to provide new insights on how to co-design creative approaches and tools that can facilitate meaningful participation, amplify community voices, promote alternative livelihood initiatives, and influence policymaking for sustainable climate adaptation. A set of recommendations on how to expand knowledge exchange opportunities between residents and policymakers are shared as a way of inspiring other communities that have similar environmental issues, with the necessary acknowledgment and deep consideration of local challenges and opportunities. In fact, one of the key lessons learned through this project is that community engagement around issues related to climate change must be tailored to local needs and imply the involvement of committed stakeholders at a very early stage. By analyzing a co-creative, 4-step process based on issue-idea-solution-implementation, this chapter offers insights on new creative and democratic ways of working with not only “hard to reach” groups, but also “hard to engage” community members, based on dialogue and social capital.
Funding
Future Yetu is a project funded by Cities Alliance – Cities Without Slums, led by Hope Raisers Initiatives in collaboration with Nairobi City County, Safer Nairobi Initiative, the Storytelling Academy at Loughborough University (UK), and Landskapslaget AB (Sweden).
History
School
- Design and Creative Arts
Department
- Creative Arts
Published in
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social ProblemsPages
1 - 17Publisher
Palgrave MacmillanVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AGPublisher statement
This book chapter was accepted for publication in the book The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems and the Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68127-2_242-1Acceptance date
2023-05-21Publication date
2023-07-12Copyright date
2023ISBN
9783030681272Publisher version
Language
- en