(SMART = Systems Mapping and Policy Redesign for Adaptation and Resilience Transformation)
This is an international project proposed to use a decolonial planetary health framework that integrates artistic, place-based, digital approaches to redesign systems and policies for climate disasters and displacement.
The goal of the project is to move away from deficient, top-down, reactive climate displacement policy approaches to ones that centers planetary health and equity-denied communities’ expertise. The team wants to connect their lived and living experiences with real-time, place-based data. From there we will redesign decision-making systems for equity, justice, and resilience using community-driven arts-based methodologies and sciences to create digital twin platforms that will enable pre-disaster climate displacement policies that are respectful and resilient.
Funding Source: New Frontiers in Research Fund (Notice of Decision: August 2026)
