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Cumulus Detroit 2022: Design for Adaptation

November 2, 2022 - November 4, 2022 Detroit, USA. Organized in collaboration with AICAD

Cumulus Detroit 2022: Design for Adaptation
  • College for Creative Studies
    College for Creative Studies

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https://cumulusdetroit2022.org/
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Design for Adaptation – Cumulus Detroit 2022

The complexity and scale of sustainability topics had deepened and transformed from the early days when most projects looked at changes in environmental conditions. However, climate change exposes significant systemic and social-technological problems across different areas. Design for Adaptation comprises changing behaviors, systems, and environments to reduce our vulnerability to the harmful effects of a rapidly changing world, including climate change, automation, and income inequality. Cumulus Detroit Conference 2022 will explore what role designers play in fostering Adaptation through a wide range of approaches, methods, visions, and experiments that draw on Adaptation to reduce vulnerabilities and promote resilience for any community, big or small.

For this conference, CCS has partnered with the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) to bring a broader perspective from across the North American sector. Detroit, a UNESCO City of Design, is ideal for exploring art and design-led research in a sustainably minded and socially aware community of practice.

Design for Adaptation will explore the role artists and designers play in accelerating adaptation to the immediate and future impacts of climate change through a wide range of approaches, methods, visions and experiments that  seek to reduce vulnerabilities and foster resilience for any community, big or small. Extending beyond the environment to human rights, poverty, inequity, global food security, health, climate change consequences call for rapid action and Adaptation.

Scholars, designers, artists and climate activists are all invited to submit paper and poster abstracts for consideration of contribution.

Conference Tracks:
Climate Ecosystem
Climate Citizen
Climate Apartheid

Early bird registration open till September 14, 2022.

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