Community Climate Adaptation Routemap
Project: Climate adaptation and resilience resource for communities in Scotland
Client: Sniffer / Adaptation Scotland
Role: Visual and information design, co-creative sessions
Year: 2023
Sniffer are a collaborative organisation working towards sustainable transitions and climate resilience in Scotland.
This project, working also with Adaptation Scotland, looked to co-create an accessible and tangible resource for communities across Scotland to better understand the impacts of local climate change and what they can do to adapt to these changes.
Through a collaborative approach, including stakeholder workshops and multidiscplinary feedback, I worked with Sniffer to organise the complex information of the routemap into an accessible and engaging document.
The visual identity was designed to be engaging and colourful, whilst still remaining sensitive to the difficult topics being discussed. A photographic collage style was used as a result, alongside a vivid colour scheme. This also allowed us to implement a multispecies view of sustainability that visually highlighted the systemic nature of climate issues and our responses to them, by incorporating Scottish wildlife / nonhuman stakeholders throughout the imagery used.
The final resource includes an overarching routemap which summarises different potential actions, and organises them according to overarching themes. In addition, the map offers alternative ways to interpret actions, by also presenting the associated climate hazards and how long or short term an action is. The map is presented alongside a broader informational document that introduces the issues of climate change and shares more detailed and wider resources for the actions.
