Future Scenarios (2017-ongoing)
‘Future Scenarios’ is an exploration of the themes of vulnerability to, and responsibility for climate change, and the role that narrative plays in shaping our future. Through collaboration with leading climate change scientists, researchers and policy makers in the Global South and the UK, Dobrowolska and Ormond-Skeaping have learnt how the story of vulnerability that once surrounded those nations most vulnerable to climate change has developed into one of resilience and adaptation.
In their three channel film Dobrowolska and Ormond-Skeaping show us how vulnerable countries, that are often thought of as helpless in the face of climate change, are now in fact emerging as leaders in the development of mitigation and adaptation strategies, the use of indigenous resilience and adaptation knowledge, research into loss and damage, renewables and the pursuit of climate justice. They are the closest to decarbonizing their economies, even though they have contributed the least to global carbon emissions. While conversely the developed nations that are principally responsible for climate change and have the greatest technological and financial resources to tackle it, seem to be stuck in a state of political apathy and are making little progress.
By foregrounding this new narrative of resilience and adaptation, Dobrowolska and Ormond- Skeaping intend to reveal how this story opens up a dialogue about a still yet-to-be determined future and how it rejects the fatalistic narrative about vulnerability that compounds victimhood.
