Just adaptation & Resilience

Collaborative project as part of the JRC SciArt project, European Commission

NaturArchy explores how providing Nature with a contract that integrates it totally into our society can redefine our anthropocentric relationship with it, through artistic, scientific and legal expressions. Exhibition from 24 May to 29 September 2024 in Brussels.

Developed by Margherita Pevere and Céline Charveriat with Pro(to)topia, this toolkit explores how art and community engagement can serve as restorative practices in the face of environmental trauma.

In the context of wildfires caused by climate change, we participated in a collaborative effort to explore how creative and collective practices can help communities heal and reconnect with their environment.

Rooted in a community program carried out in Santa Comba Dão, Portugal—a region severely affected by the 2017 wildfires—and created within the NaturArchy Resonances Project at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, in collaboration with the School of Agriculture (ISA) - University of Lisbon, CoLAB ForestWISE, and FIRE RES, it transforms field experience into practical, adaptable methods.

Designed for artists, facilitators, and community practitioners, it offers tools to turn creativity into concrete action—supporting collective expression, resilience, and care in contexts of ecological loss.

Resilience Recipes, developed by Kate Power for Pro(to)topia, serves as a strategic framework designed to navigate the complex uncertainties of the 21st century.

Utilizing the metaphor of a "cookbook," this guide translates theoretical resilience into actionable organizational practices and rituals. It provides a roadmap toward 2030, offering scalable "recipes" to mitigate systemic risks such as socio-political extremism, climate volatility, and financial instability.

The project aims to foster a multidisciplinary movement dedicated to building equitable, sustainable, and future-proof societies through collective innovation and care.