Can creative writing inspire the potential for behavioural change?
This was one of the key questions posed during Surelines and D-rift: Creative Writing Against Coastal Waste, a research project presented by Southampton Institute of Arts and Humanities at the University of Southampton, in partnership with ArtfulScribe.
As part of this project Alice was one of a group of selected South West writers, community facilitators and academics who came together to explore how we can tell more effective stories that cultivate awareness of issues relating to coastal waste and climate crisis. Each writer then went onto create public-facing creative writing sessions based on the research day.
Notes from Sea and Shore
Alice designed and delivered a seaside creative writing workshop, Notes from Sea and Shore, that invited participants to sense themselves as nature using an embodied approach to creative writing. This approach was based on the notion that sensing the environment as kin, as many indigenous communities do, might sense this may positively impact our relationship to nature.
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