Rewriting Climate Headlines
Exhibition Design
Arabic
Arabic
The "Rewriting Climate Headlines" project is a collaborative effort between the
Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK)
and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), aimed to reshape climate change narratives in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through innovative storytelling and art.
The project kicked off in early 2023, bringing together six designers from four different countries in Europe and three investigative journalists from three different countries in the MENA region. The collaborative effort explored how media and politics influence reporting on critical issues like forest fires, water scarcity, and animal cruelty. This exploration resulted in the creation of three remarkable projects focusing on climate change with cross themes: migration routes, wildfires, and women's rights.
The three art installations were showcased at the 16th Annual ARIJ Forum in December 2023, where 500+ in person got the chance to visit the exhibition, parallel to COP28, via the social media platform "We Don't Have Time." The Videocasts there reached 6000 in the first airing.
ARIJ 16th Annual Forum also dedicated a session
“Unveiling Innovative Ways to Tell the Climate Story”
discussed experiences of the collaboration of collaboration between the Royal Academy of Art (the Hague) and ARIJ of transforimg the three ARIJ investigations from the MENA region to art installations and how the collaboration between journalism and art can advance the climate story.
Speakers: Munir Al Khatib, Editor-in-Chief, ARIJ, Draaistra, Research-based artist and designer, Hattie Wade, Research-based artist and Designer, Sophie Czich, Designer and Visual Researcher, Nelleke Broeze, Visual Artist and Researcher, One of the Founders of Shapeshifters & Spacebenders, and Belit Sag, Media Theorist.
Summer School Documentary
Drinking water in the service of the potash industry in southern Jordan Valley: Factories “watered” while farms left thirsty.
Construction Projects Fuel Forest Fires In Morocco: The Shadow of Concrete Looms over Morocco's Burning Forests
he Season of Migration into the Nets: The Route to Smuggling Rare Migrating Falcons from Libya to the Arabian Gulf.
A short time-lapse video showing the setup of the exhibition
On January 29, ARIJ Executive Editor, Ethar Azem participated as a speaker in the webinar titled “Art, Journalism, and Science: A Collaboration on Water and Climate Change Storytelling”, organized by IHE Delft in cooperation with the Global Network of Water Museums.
On May 4, 2024, the Media Diversity Institute (MDI) organized a panel at the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day in Santiago, Chile, titled "Rewriting Climate Change Narratives: Artistic Approaches to Inclusive Storytelling."
On January 29, ARIJ Executive Editor, Ethar Azem participated as a speaker in the webinar titled “Art, Journalism, and Science: A Collaboration on Water and Climate Change Storytelling”, organized by IHE Delft in cooperation with the Global Network of Water Museums. The session highlighted the success of the “Rewriting Climate Headlines” summer school, hosted at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague in partnership with ARIJ, where the initiative united artists, researchers, and journalists to innovate storytelling on environmental justice. It spotlighted a climate story about water scarcity in the Jordan Valley, focusing on female farmers. This collaboration produced an investigative piece, an art exhibition in Amman, Jordan, and a video-cast at COP28 in Dubai. Facebook post.
On May 4, 2024, the Media Diversity Institute (MDI) organized a panel at the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day in Santiago, Chile, titled "Rewriting Climate Change Narratives: Artistic Approaches to Inclusive Storytelling." With support from Sabrina Faramarzi of Are We Europe, the panel explored creative methods for covering climate change, stressing the importance of diverse perspectives, particularly from marginalized groups, in shaping the narrative. Panelists discussed their involvement in projects using various storytelling techniques to engage new audiences with climate change stories. Boris van Westering, a climate journalism development expert from the Netherlands, presented the Rewriting Climate Narratives project, developed in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ).
