Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage is an online artistic research residency, a series of public events, and a set of commissioned texts, aimed at facilitating a transdisciplinary exchange around the issue of loss and damage caused by the climate crisis. By building connections across different knowledge-making practices, Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage sets out to create a symbiotic network of trans-local collaborators, recognising that climate research, activism, and advocacy, is an entangled and inter-relational practice involving many actors.

       Climate change-induced loss and damage is experienced in myriad ways, some economic, but many of which are unquantifiable and intangible. This can include loss and damage to infrastructure, culture, sense of place and identity, livelihoods, biodiversity, Indigenous and local knowledge, health, and much more. Only by addressing the root causes of the combined climate, environmental, inequality, and human rights crisis, through rapid and radical system-wide change, can we end our dependence on an extractive system that prioritises violent and destructive activities — such as the burning of fossil fuels — over bodily, planetary, social, and ecological health. 

        Cultural and creative practitioners have a significant role to play in the paradigm shift required to move beyond this era of polycrisis. By facilitating exchange and exploration of different perspectives, knowledges and lived experiences of the climate crisis, Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage hopes to provide a platform through which cultural practitioners, critical thinkers, and Loss and Damage actors can collectively contribute to a greater understanding of how loss and damage is impacting communities and ecosystems around the world, and what can and needs to be done about it.  






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