Climate ReAssemblies
Short video documenting the Climate ReAssemblies project created by the research team in collaboration with Mo Khizr.
Climate ReAssemblies is a multi-phase, interdisciplinary research project that rethinks citizen participation in climate policy by expanding the imaginaries and methodologies of climate assemblies. Grounded in participatory practice, co-creative and co-design approaches, and knowledge exchange activities, the project explores how democratic innovations can be strengthened to better support inclusive citizen engagement in climate policy.
This short film documents the first phase of the project — South Yorkshire Climate Futures (Research England Participatory Research Funding, 2024) — which investigated follow-up citizen engagement with the recommendations of the South Yorkshire Citizens’ Assembly on Climate (2023) through the co-creation of scenarios of shared climate futures. This informed the subsequent series of Roundtables and citizen-policy knowledge exchange activities (KE QR-PSF Funding, 2024–2025).
The current phase is the Re-Staging Climate Assemblies initiative (2025–2027), supported by the British Academy Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects programme (BA KF25\100465). This project aims to advance democratic innovation and climate action by co-developing inclusive and youth-centred approaches to climate assemblies in Sheffield, UK, and Tübingen, Germany.
Credits
- Research Team: Emre Akbil (University Teacher in the Architecture and Landscape School at the University of Sheffield)
- Research Team: Lena Dobrowolska (Research Associate: Culture and Climate Change at the University of Sheffield)
- Research Team: Dr Jayne Carrick (Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sheffield)
- Research Team: Dr Ashley Mason (Research Associate: Culture and Climate Change at the University of Sheffield)
- Research Team: Sylvia Moffatt (Senior Policy and Impact Officer at the South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre)
- Research Team: Professor Renata Tyszczuk (Culture and Climate Change at the University of Sheffield)
- Research Team: Dr Matthew Wood (Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield)
- Research Assistant: Francesca Lloyd (Part II Architectural Assistant at Rock Townsend)
- Research Assistant: Hannah Spiers (Masters Student at the University of Sheffield)
- Research Assistant: Charles Young (Projects Assistant at Live Works at the University of Sheffield)
- Research Contributor: Peter Bryant (Director at Shared Future)
- Research Contributor: Sylvia Katua (Masters Student at the University of Sheffield)
- Research Contributor: Ugnė Petreikytė (Illustrator and Animator)
- Research Contributors and Workshop Participants: Sara Blackburn, Catherine Cotterill, Ci Davis, Daniel Douglas, David Garlovsky, Andrew Ockerby, Jenny Patient, Adam Preston, Pete Riley, Nicky Rivers, Gareth Roberts, Lungani Sibanda, Richard Souter, Rachael Treharne, Olivier Tsemo, Sam Wakeling
- Sharing Event Attendee: Abigail Booker
- Sharing Event Attendee: Carolyn Butterworth (Director of Live Works at the University of Sheffield)
- Sharing Event Attendee: Geoff Cox
- Sharing Event Attendee: Dr Anthony Powis (Lecturer at the University of Sheffield)
- Sharing Event Attendee: Richard Sulley (Senior Research Fellow in Sustainability Policy at the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures)
- The Film: Mo Khizr (Founder of Khizr Studio)
- Partner: Live Works
- Partner: South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre
