Climate Justice
Under the leadership of LISC Phoenix, InSite Consultants will work community partners and grassroots community groups to promote equity within the built environment to address climate change. Using a Climate Justice framework, our work centers the lived experience and histories of people most impacted by climate change, including Native, Black, Latinx, disabled, unsheltered, mother, women, and migrant communities. Recognizing that lived experience is just as important as professional staff participation, participants will be provided stipends for their involvement and their contributions will be validated through transparent, clear, and culturally relevant communication. We will facilitate conversations and gatherings through Arizona and New Mexico and virtually.
Key to our work is a design process that privileges the wisdom at the margins, values power-sharing and shared decision-making, and de-centers the white spatial and epistemological imaginary. Our work is influenced by Indigenous Design Collaborative, Saidiya Hartman, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Laurie Allison Wilson, Edward Soja, David Harvey, Fantz Fanon, June Jordan, Design Justice, Roberto Bedoya, bell hooks, BlackSpace.
Key to our work is a design process that privileges the wisdom at the margins, values power-sharing and shared decision-making, and de-centers the white spatial and epistemological imaginary. Our work is influenced by Indigenous Design Collaborative, Saidiya Hartman, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Laurie Allison Wilson, Edward Soja, David Harvey, Fantz Fanon, June Jordan, Design Justice, Roberto Bedoya, bell hooks, BlackSpace.
Climate Justice Convening | June 10 - 11, 2024
Arizona is on the frontlines of the climate crisis. With increasing heatwaves, wildfires, and extended drought across the region, we are at a breaking point. Indigenous communities and climate activists from the Global South have long-identified colonial intervention as the historical and ongoing driver of the climate crisis. In order to face the grave challenges that lie before us we must clearly identify the production and making of climate change as bi-products of extraction and land theft. To ensure "different political, environmental, and social outcomes, we must prioritize the perspectives, knowledges, research and practices of Indigenous people" (Curley, 2023). InSite Consultants and LISC Phoenix convened a 2-day gathering to focus on climate resilience centering Indigenous, Black, Latinx leaders to discuss the political and cultural urgencies of climate change. The convening began with a book launch and panel discussions and culminated with a facilitated a curated conversation with invited guests on and philanthropic leaders from Arizona. |
Report: 2024 Climate Resilience & Climate Justice Convening |