Climate Resistance in your Area

Topics: Climate Change, Anticapitalism

Age: from 12 years old Group size: 5-20 people Duration: 3 hours

Preparation needed:

Introduction:

Map of the town/city/area. You can use one already made or draw one with the group.

Getting to know your area and investigate local initiatives that propose alternatives to fight climate change, find places with a history that is linked to Climate Change or that are affected by it. This is a great way to motivate young people in taking action for climate!

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This workshop idea was originally developed in Vienna, Austria, by Emil Schüchner, Lukas Scherer and Simon Weingartner from Kinderfreunde/ Die Falken as part of Resist! The Global Climate Divide, a project supported by the European Youth Foundation and the Council of Europe.

Step by step instructions:

1. Energizer and/or getting to know each other.

2. Introduction. Introduce the topic to your group and explain what the purpose of the activity is: We will create a map of our city/town/area with examples of projects and initiatives that fight Climate Change and/or places with a link to climate change.

3. Research time. In groups, participants will have time to research the examples. Depending on your context, this could happen on the internet, walking around, interviewing neighbours, etc.

4. Presentation and map creation. Now it’s time to present the work done and put it all together in a Map.

5. Debriefing. Reflect on the activity with the group. Some possible questions are:

- How was the process? How was the research? And the presentation? - Was it interesting to research? Did you learn something new? - Was it hard to find examples in your area? - What do the examples have in common? - What can we learn from this examples? How can we fight climate change?

6. Evaluation

7. Walking. Enjoy the work created and walk around if you haven’t done this during the presentation!

Note: You can create copies of the map and give them around for more people to enjoy the walk!

Online adaptation:

The research part can be adapted to an online workshop. For the walking tour, participants can then walk around independently whenever they can.

It is also possible to create an interactive map (with links to more information) as the group of Kinderfreunde/Die Falken did. You can see their city tour here: https://rotefalken.at/rote-falken-in-wien/klimaspaziergang