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A collaboration between Icarus Complex, Where the Leaves Fall and Emergence.
Title - Exploring Borders
Introduction
#restartingthefuture is born out of an exciting collaboration between Icarus Complex and Where The Leaves Fall. We have created an event series exploring themes around climate change and nature connection. We are delighted to announce our partnership with Emergence Magazine for our first event on May 20th 2021 on the topic of Exploring Borders. The event will be presented by Steve Watson from Stack Magazines.
Where the Leaves Fall:
Photographer and activist Gabriel Uchida will be discussing his journey from the city to the heart of the Amazon, where he has been living with the Uru-eu-wau-wau people. Illegal logging, burning and land seizure, often accompanied by death threats, have become part of everyday life for Indigenous people living in the Amazon regions of Brazil, and more recently there has been the added threat of Covid. Gabriel featured in the first issue of Where the Leaves Fall and will be updating us on what is happening in the Amazon and beyond.
Emergence Magazine:
Throughout 2021-22 Emergence will be publishing a series of essays and interactive multimedia on the theme of human and non-human migration. Asking how patterns of human movement have been impacted by the climate crisis and by broader trends that have been unfolding in recent history, and how the migration patterns of birds, insects, and other species are shifting at this time. Executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee will share Emergence’s editorial approach to this theme followed by a presentation by their staff writer Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder who is currently working on an in-depth article on tree migration, following the stories of black ash, sugar maple, and red spruce trees and their intertwined human relationships.
Icarus Complex:
Emma Bryce is a journalist who has written extensively on migration for Icarus Complex. Emma will be interviewing Mariam Traore Chazalnoel, senior expert in migration, environment and climate change at the United Nations International Organisation for Migration (IOM). They will talk about the growing recognition of environmental change and destruction as a driver of human movement. As the senior expert at the IOM, she'll describe the complexities of trying to understand why people leave their homes in the first place - and how that's made it such a challenge to define exactly what 'environmental migration' is.