Days 3 and 4 were given to creative workshops with a group of 15 young adults from the Nairobi informal settlements, recruited by Hope Raisers and who will engage with the project throughout its lifetime. The purpose of the workshop was to explore and extend the participants’ understanding of their experiences of climate change, how it affects their community and the relationship between both climate change and cultural heritage. We explored how climate change and wider sustainability narratives are reflected in cultural heritage and related practices, how climate change impacts on cultural heritage (such as the degradation of artefacts and the impact on traditional skills and practices), and how an exploration of the relationship between the two might help increase understanding and enable us to create new narratives of hope.

During the workshops, participants explored digital storytelling, zine-making and future visioning as modes of storytelling, and also had time to explore the collections and galleries at the National Museum, most of whom were visiting for the first time. Both the meetings and workshops were deemed a great success and have provided a solid platform for the further development of the network and the co-creation of outputs.