Join Our Climate & Justice Workshop!
This March 2026, we’re celebrating Worldwide Climate and Justice Education Month, a global initiative uniting hundreds of institutions and tens of thousands of participants.
Be part of an engaging workshop focused on interdisciplinary learning, collaboration, and action toward climate justice.
Presenter: Lucia Inkley Pacheco, Alumni '25, MA
Date and Time: Friday, March 27, 2026
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. CT
Google Meet Link
Project Title: Designing Climate Conversations Tools for Designing Community-Centered Climate Communication
Workshop Description
Designing Climate Conversations is a 50-minute interactive workshop that explores the role designers and creatives play in shaping how climate change is understood at the community level. Climat e messaging is widespread, yet it often remains abstract, distant, or disconnected from lived realities. Designers are frequently brought in at the execution stage, tasked with making information visually engaging without being invited into deeper conversations about strategy, trust, or community context. This workshop reframes design as a strategic force in climate communication and expands the designer’s role beyond aesthetics.
Drawing from principles of intersectional and participatory design, the session introduces the CLIMATE Approach, a strategic lens for community-centered climate communication. Participants will apply the approach to critique and redesign an existing climate message, examining context, lived experience, identity and power, medium, actionability, trust, and embeddedness. The goal is to equip designers with a repeatable structure they can use to ask better questions, influence briefs, and shape more grounded climate conversations.
This workshop is designed for:
● Designers (graphic, digital, product, spatial, communication)
● Visual artists and creative practitioners
● Students in design and related fields
● Creatives interested in sustainability and civic engagement
No prior expertise in climate science is required. The focus is on communication, design strategy, and community engagement.