Climate Story Lab Berlin

Introduction by Anna Ramskogler-Witt (Human Rights Film Festival Berlin) & Vivian Schroder (Impact Producer).

Andrew Gilmour (Director of Berghof Foundation) will speak about the effects of the Climate Crisis on Conflict and Conflict Transformation.

His presentation is followed by a Q&A.  

With Bhanu Bhatnager from Save the Children Uk & Ashfaque Soomro from the Research and Development Foundation, Bangladesh. 

This panel will give a deeper insight into the correlation between the climate crisis and its resulting conflicts and hunger.

Networking, Coffee and Cake.

The creative minds behind the projects are going to give a short insight into their ideas for sustainable climate communication.

Projects:

1. "The Zimov Hypothesis"
2. "Kippelemente - A Climate Communication Guide".
3. "Menschenrecht vor Bergrecht" / "Human Right before Mining Law". 

Amazing Beadie Finzi of our partner DocSociety will give you an insight into the concept of Impact Producing.

With Tonny Nowshin (Climate activist) & Juan Auz (Hertie School of Governance).

When it comes to the climate crisis, women and girls⁠ - especially those living in rural areas and those living below the poverty line - are most affected by natural disasters, pollution, oil spills, and more and most vulnerable to the climate catastrophe. As a result, the effects of such disasters generally further exacerbate existing inequalities. For women and people of colour, structural and institutional racism has placed them at the center of environmental injustices. Particularly POC and indigenous people often face higher rates of exposure to unclean water, pollution, and many have been stripped of their land and resources in the name of modernisation. At the same time, the inclusion of the most vulnerable groups of our global society and the representation of their voices, perspectives, and demands in the media, at climate conferences is desperately lacking. Together with Tonny Nowshin (Climate Activist, Urgewald eV) and Juan Auz (Hertie School of Governance), we want to discuss the reasons and ways to change this (to integrate gender and race considerations into climate communication, policies, plans, and actions).

Network and enjoy a delicious vegan or vegetarian lunch.

How can impact be measured, how can we create sustainable campaigns and projects with mesurable impact. Elias Schneider of the Berlin based organisation Phineo will give a short overview on how to develp an impact logic together with Vivian Schröder from Good Pitch. 

The creative minds behind the projects are going to give a short insight into their ideas for sustainable climate communication.

Projects:

4. "Climate Monologues".
5. "Future Diaries". 
6. "Camilla Plastic Ocean".

Networking, Coffee and Cake.

What role can art and activism play to shake people up, to urge large cooperations corporations to act and motivate politicians to adopt sustainable legislation? We will discuss these questions with the amazing Yes Men, the Peng! Collective and members of Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion. The discussion will be followed by in-depth breakout sessions.

Break out sessions:

1) Film & Activism
by The YesMan

2) Art & Activism
by Carolijn Terwindt from Peng!

3) Protest & Activism
by Carla Reemtsma from Fridays for Future

4) Action & Activism 
by Cléo Mieulet & Juliane Ried from Extinction Rebellion

Brighton Kaoma has started a radio show at the age of 14 to discuss climate change in his home country Zambia. In 2015 he co-founded the Agents of Change Foundation and throughout Africa, they are now training teenagers to become journalists and to host their own radio shows. Today he is an Associate of Columbia University, WWF Presidents’ Awardee, and Queen Elizabeth II Youth Leadership Awardee.

Our psychology plays a major role in our perception and action. With Stephen Lewandowsky, Professor of Cognitive Psychology (University of Bristol), and Dr. Julia Kim, the Director of GNH Center Bhutan, we want to find out why it is so hard for many of us to change our behavior towards a more sustainable future. We will also explore how communication and storytelling of the climate crisis can inspire and motivate people to change their behavior with the importance of personal fates and emotions to make the abstract topic of the climate catastrophe more tangible.

We end the day with a group work on impact. Taking everything into account what we learned during todays sessions. Thinking about how we can create impact with our tools for our 6 selected projects.

Connect with other participants at the Guests meet Guests.

Anna and Vivian will give a short overview of their learnings of the first day and summerise the highlights.

Form follows function – this can also be said for the dramaturgy of your project. Each media form needs to think differently about approaches. You can just create one concept that fits all. Together with Inga von Staden of the Interactive Media Foundation and media scientist William Uricchio we will dive deep into this question.

Presented by Denis Sneguirev & Khadidja Benouataf

The Zimov Hyphotesis is a film by Denis Sneguirev. Produced by Arturo Mio, 13 Productions, Arte, Take Five, Ethnofund

In deepest Siberia, two Russian scientists, Sergey and his son Nikita, are conducting a unique experiment: the Pleistocene Park. In this remote place, the Zimovs want to restore the Siberian steppe ecosystem to save the planet from a environmental disaster: the thawing of permafrost. This frozen soil holds billions of tons of methane beneath the earth's surface. Just a few degrees warmer, and the fragile permafrost will set off its climate bomb. The film follows four seasons of this scientific and philosophical quest

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/312545325

Networking, Coffee & Cake

First we gain insight into the extensive campaignwork of Greenpeace before we discuss in smaller groups how different forms of activism can create long-lasting change in break-out-session. Amongs the experts are colleagues from Patagonia, klimafakten.de.

1. Campaigns & Activism

by Kirsten Brodde from Greenpeace

2. Social Business & Activism

by Roos van de Weerd from Patagonia

3. Facts & Activism

by Carel Mohn from klimafakten.de

Presented by Sophie Michel & Selma Weber

Kippelemente is a clearly laid out brochure on sustainable climate crisis communication. The guide offers practical help for media professionals to circumvent negative narratives and to use the power of language in the fight against the climate crisis. It is designed to serve as a basis for workshops to teach the key aspects of climate crisis communication, i.e. help media professionals to understand the effect of their own reports and to put them into words that reach the intended outcome.

Network and enjoy a delicious vegan or vegetarian lunch.

Chief Editor of klimafakten.de Carel Mohn will give insights into his years of experience with communicating facts, scientific evidence and how these scientific results can play a crucial role in informing people on the one hand and can discourage people on the other hand. A tightrope act.

ZEIT journalist and author Petra Pinzler has written a book in 2018 about her family trying to live CO2 neutral for a year. A lot has happened since. What has she learned?

Together with our partner Save the Children, we will venture a deeper look into the future and see how the Climate Crisis will continue to affect our future (and the one of the following generations) in a even more disastrous way. Together with climate activists from India, Kenya, Colombia, Nigeria and Germany, we will hear about their hopes and fears.

Presented by Ellen Baker

What many people don't know is that in 2020, in Germany, people are facing losing their family homes to coal minig - even as Germany starts its 'coal phase-out'. But one group of villagers are fighting back. Menschenrecht vor Bergrecht is a legal fight led by villagers faced with eviction to make way for the Garzweiler II coal mine. In two separate court challenges, they will tackle the legal question of expropriation, and whether the government's new coal phase-out law goes against Germany's own constitution.

Networking, Coffee & Cake

Impact-Kampagnen für Dokumentarfilme:

Case Study „Taste the Waste“

Politische Dokumentarfilme versuchen die Welt zu verändern – doch wie kann man dafür sorgen, dass sie in der Gesellschaft wahrgenommen werden? Filmemacher, Umweltbewegte, Vereine und Initiativen, Politiker und Wissenschaftler können zusammenarbeiten, um zu erreichen, dass ein Dokumentarfilm in die Gesellschaft hineinwirkt.

Valentin Thurn erklärt am Beispiel seines Kinofilms „Taste the Waste“ über Lebensmittelverschwendung wie er seine Kampagnen entworfen und durchgeführt hat. Es geht nicht um reines Marketing, sondern um den „Impact“, also das Hineinwirken in die Gesellschaft. 

Dabei geht es um die Suche nach Bündnispartnern bei Vereinen und Bewegungen (oder sogar der Gründung einer Bewegung), nach klassischen Partnern wie Filmfestivals, Kinoverleih, Presseagentur, Social-Media-Agentur, und nicht zuletzt der Suche nach Geld, um das alles zu finanzieren.

With  Sheila Hayman
 

Kira Vinke from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) will introdcue the idea of the climate passport, how the idea was born, and has gathered voices around the world.

Connect with other participants at the Guests meet Guests.

Anna and Vivian will give a short overview of their learnings of the previous day and summerise the highlights.

Jan Sebastian Friedrich-Rust (Aktion gegen den Hunger Germany) will be in conversation with renowned Author Ilija Trojanow on Climate Fiction and on the impact that literature can play.

Presented by Michael Ruf

"The Climate Monologues" is a dodumentary theater play about the consequesnces of climate change on the lives of people in different parts of the world - performed by a network of hundreds of actors in Germany and other countries. 
As several months will be spent to look internationally fot interviewees, even more could be done with the stories. I would love to find ways to develop spin offs: other ways to narrate the stories or how to combine the narratives with other ways of communication.

Networking, Coffee & Cake

Together with Juan Auz (Hertie School of Governance) we will discuss the meaning of climate justice and why is it so imporant to talk about it.

Our lovely friends & colleagues in India and Kenya are also hosting shortly climate storytelling conferences and workshops around the time of our lab in Berlin. In this session we will talk about the differences and similarities in the approaches of climate storytelling.

"Coral Woman" documentary by Priya Thuvassery with Sophy Siviraman
"Thank you for the rain" with Emily Wanja and Julius Mbatia

Presented by Alexander Herrmann

Future Diaries is a storyworld set in our century in which 3 competing systems are struggling for domnance on a planet shaken by climate catastrophe. One of them is set around UTOPIA - an algorithm which distributes all resources fair and equal among its users. In our graphic novel series she will send herself back in time to meet YOU on your favorite social media channels - trying to understand this strange species she was creating to help: Humanity.

Network and enjoy a delicious vegan or vegetarian lunch.

Discursive, legal, financial and artistic interventions can be effective tools to change the mindset of people and even lead to long-lasting policy changes. After a short info-session, we will have the chance to discuss these approaches with experts in break-out-sessions.

1) Climate Intervention by Miriam Saage-Maaß from ECCHR

2) Climate & Children's Rights by Susanna Krüger from Save the Children

3) Climate & Finances by Phillippe Singer from Leaders for Future.

4) Climate & Nature by Kristin Reißig from WWF

Presented by Angelica Böhm

Transmedia Storytelling: Camilla Plastic Ocean Plan

Angelica Boehm founded www.cpop.world in 2015 and it has been growing until now. 
The project is a mix of fantasy-setting on environmental problems. It combines arts and filmmaking at Filmuniversity Babelsberg with the scientific expertise from Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. 
A short-story is the red line. Numerous international artists create paintings, concept are, 360 degree-short-movies. VR-expereince and more. 

20 minutes break

The wonderful Belina Raffy gives us a crash course in sustainable stand-up and the power of humor. 

It all started with trying to bring the debate around climate crisis into theatre and «vollehalle» was born. Kai Schächtele has learned a lot on his way to finding a set-up that works and reaches the people. Finding the right balance between not leaving people deflated after the show, but rather inspired has not always been a smooth path. 

Anna & Vivian will sumerize the last three days for you.

Ilija Trojanow will talk to us about his book "EisTau". 

Link to information about the book in German:
https://trojanow.de/eistau/