Through anticipating a future when we are in a state of unsettlement, as well as beginning conversations around a new idea of home, Climatable hopes to increase human resilience. Utilising speculative design and creative placemaking, we will co-design strategies to prepare communities and facilitate adaptation.

Over one billion people live in 31 countries where the country’s resilience is unlikely to sufficiently withstand the impact of ecological events by 2050, contributing to mass population displacement.

Solastalgia "is the pain or sickness caused by the loss or lack of solace and the sense of isolation connected to the present state of one's home and territory” (Adam and Groves).

“Words such as home, neighbourhood, ghetto, slum, town, city, farm, countryside, region, province, and nation-state are hardly neutral in meaning, hardly descriptive only of physical characteristics.” (Ward 1989).

Understanding Solastalgia as psychological trauma, Climatable seeks to research ‘How might we shift the focus of climate migration from infrastructural resilience towards human resilience?

Through anticipating a future when we are in a state of unsettlement, as well as beginning conversations around a new idea of home, Climatable hopes to increase human resilience. Utilising speculative design we will codesign strategies to prepare communities and facilitate adaptation.

Our institute will operate within a solution ecosystem of international and local community actors, research institutes, experts and academics.

Rather than work to create architectural resilience, our research institution, Climatable, will work to increase human resilience by combining research in infrastructural resilience, psychology, and speculative design, in response to the climate crisis.

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