If a climate solution does not change how people live, care and make decisions, can it truly be called resilient?
On Waterloo Street, in central Singapore, heritage buildings, places of worship, and the twenty-storey Fortune Centre, with its array of vegetarian restaurants and hawker stalls, sit alongside one another. Outdoors, vendors sell chrysanthemums, incense, and discounted clothing and kitchen wares. Elderly people sit on benches, resting and taking in the scene.
As temperatures rise, what will happen to the vendors and the passersby – particularly the elderly people for whom heat stress could be acute? How might rituals, modern and centuries-old alike, change? What might that mean for our individual and collective sense of heritage and community?
Climate change, health, and culture intersect in myriad ways. In this interactive workshop, co-hosted by the Tsao Family Foundation, Forum for the Future, Bridgespan and Climate KIC, we will delve into these intersections. We’ll consider potential and plausible futures and what it would like to thrive – ecologically, socially, and culturally – across generations on a warming planet increasingly disrupted by extreme weather events, that we must work together to safeguard and regenerate.
Welcome remarks will be given by:
Priyanka Agarwal, Executive Director, The Tsao Family Foundation
Session Lead Facilitator:
Priya Kvam, Associate Director, Southeast Asia, Forum for the Future
