Successful Project Application for the British Academy's "Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research" Programme 2025

Written by: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Riccarda Flemmer
With collaboration from:
Lilian Eichorst - Research Assistant
Zahid Zamudio - Research Assistant
Micha Bröckling - Doctoral Student and Research Assistant

Excited about the successful project application for the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Programme 2025! In collaboration with Prof. Renata Tyszczuk and her team from the University of Sheffield, we begin the project:
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Re-Staging Climate Assemblies (KF25\100465)
Re-Staging Climate Assemblies is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of research on arts and humanities perspectives on climate change and innovations in deliberative democracy, Through ‘re-stagings’ of citizen climate assemblies co-designed with youth diaspora communities in Sheffield, UK and Tübingen, Germany, it will collectively assemble a body of stories, tools and resources for more inclusive and just climate adaptation and mitigation conversations. The project will address engagement with underrepresented citizens within climate assemblies and acknowledge diverse knowledges, insights and modes of deliberation. It will explore the potential of participatory arts-based approaches, notably scenario-making, for innovating within democratic processes and catalysing transformative climate action. The project directly addresses increasingly urgent demands at local, national and international levels for more inclusive, deliberative and active modes of citizenship in relation to climate change and just transitions. In doing so it puts social and environmental justice centre stage.
 
British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Programme 2025.
In collaboration with the University of Sheffield.
Team: Verena Gresz, M.A.
Funding: £292,355.00
Time: April 2025 – March 2027