CLIMATE PARLIAMENT. STORIES OF THE NON-HUMAN What if our environment could speak for itself, that is, if non-human beings and things were given a voice to help shape the politics of our planet? What would they say? What if all beings that affect our climate and being affected by human actions, could coalesce and come together for a consultation? The project “Climate Parliament of all Beings and Non-Beings” is an artistic approach based on creativity, storytelling, community practices, mobilization, and empathy by metagarden and helfersyndrom, enriched by the narrative, methodological forms of Yannis Angelis.

This project is inspired as a parliament and invites people to take the voices of non-human beings and stand for their rights, argue, debate and make concrete decisions about a sustainable future, as if there was an efficient way for humans to empathize with the non-human world and represent the non-human voices in a political-oriented constellation, for respective action towards the betterment of our environment and world.

With artful representations and storytelling as the vehicles they envisage an ambitious attempt to send these demands collected of non-human beings and things to the political authorities, with the obligation to take respective action and even bring them to the Parliament of the country. What if this process has a profound impact on shifting the current mindset and opens up a field of connection among citizens, which will inspire collective and sustainable climate-related actions?