“Art Meets Migration & Development in a Changing Climate” at the Global Forum for Migration and Development Summit

Art Meets Migration & Development in a Changing Climate
23-25 January 2024
International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG)
Ground Floor

For the 14th Summit of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), DISPLACEMENT, the Platform on Disaster Displacement and the International Organization for Migration present contemporary artworks and socially engaged art projects that seek to spark conversations on migration and development policy challenges and solutions related to disasters and climate change.

The exhibition complements the Summit’s theme “The impact of climate change on human mobility,” the official side event “Regular Pathways in the Age of Climate Change: Blending Policy, People, and Art,” and other related conference events.

DISPLACEMENT encourages GFMD Summit delegates to consider the potential of collaborating with art and cultural actors in their work. Differing in scale and approach, some artworks use strong visual imagery to prompt urban planning processes that build resilience. Others imagine innovative solutions to help people on the move live in dignity and contribute to climate-resilient development. Artworks may inspire personal reflection and empathy about our collective vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change impacts. Finally, some artists offer utopian, and at times playful, proposals for migration and development policy to spur creative thinking about how to adapt in the face of a rapidly changing climate.

Photo: Mary Mattingly, Swale, New York City, 2017. Image: Cloud Factory

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