Fishers fight pollution in Lake Magdelena, Colombia; memory map of Miami agricultural worker’s hometown; graffiti
in Oxnard, California; rebuilding after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice
Green Library, Florida International University, March-April 2022

Climates of Inequality is a participatory public memory project created by students, educators, and community leaders in over 20 cities across the US and around the world. Local teams work together to activate the histories of “frontline” communities: those who have contributed the least to the climate crisis but bear its heaviest burdens. Their multi-media portraits expose the roots of current environmental injustice, and share generations of frontline communities’ strategies for resistance, resilience, and mitigation. The project promotes future visions for confronting the climate crisis that understand, and undo, past environmental harms. By compiling these histories in an evolving, internationally traveling exhibit with local events at every stop, this project seeks to affirm frontline communities’ work and inspire others to action for climate and environmental justice.

Climates of Inequality is a project of the Humanities Action Lab, a coalition of universities led by Rutgers University-Newark working with issue organizations and public spaces to create traveling public projects on the past, present, and future of pressing social issues.

The FIU exhibition is supported by the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab as part of Commons for Justice Project funded by a grant from the Andrew J Mellon Foundation.

Climates of Inequality will be on exhibit during ARCC-EAAE 2022

Socio-Spatial Approaches for Resilient Cities

BEA Gallery, March 2-11, 2022
Exhibition at FIU School of Architecture I ARCC-EAAE 2022 International Conference
Curated by Biayna Bogosian, Assistant Professor FIU SoA