Redden, Rebeccah (2022) Climate Futures: A 360 mapping experience of Montreal under Climate Change. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
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Abstract
The planet is facing massive climate change effects; Canada itself is warming at an unprecedented rate in comparison to the rest of the world. However as inland populations living in Montreal, we don’t often see these effects day-to-day. In addition, the media surrounding the future is often saturated with images of climate apocalypse that annihilate us. This makes it increasingly difficult to visualize a world that isn’t hopeless, and how we will survive in climate change. In this research-creation project, I question if there are hands-on methods to visualize a future world, where we thrive despite, and alongside, climate challenges. This research-creation project looks at the interacting aspects of climate change, critical mapping, speculative futurisms, and marginalized community voices through the creation of a ‘future map’ of Montreal. To explore this, I collect interviews from 6 community members/activists and render their visions into 360 images built into a digital map. I provide context with theories of world-building, mapping, and the creation process itself, bringing to life the participants’ visions of the future. I then describe how marginalized viewpoints and anti-oppressive frameworks build a better, tangible vision of tomorrow. I use the concept of remediation to explain the process of building futures in order to ‘fix’ society. To summarize, a critical mapping and 360 experience of Montreal under climate change will increase the body of work on climate change projection from a community perspective, and explore more embodied, hopeful, and grounded experience of climate futures.
| Divisions: | Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Communication Studies |
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
| Authors: | Redden, Rebeccah |
| Institution: | Concordia University |
| Degree Name: | M.A. |
| Program: | Media Studies |
| Date: | 30 August 2022 |
| Thesis Supervisor(s): | Renzi, Alessandra |
| Keywords: | Climate change, critical mapping, 360 images, afro/indigenous/climate futurism, new media, research-creation, place-based affect and embodiment, remediation |
| ID Code: | 991005 |
| Deposited By: | Rebeccah Redden |
| Deposited On: | 27 Oct 2022 14:07 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2022 14:07 |
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