Community Concept Drawing
Community Concept Drawing
Arts-Based Participatory Tools for Understanding Community Experiences and Informing Resilience Policy Planning
Wednesday, 18th June 2025
Ramphal Building, Room 2.41, University of Warwick
About the Event
Climate Change is affecting communities in different ways, and community members have different plans about how to respond. While policy makers and scholars have ideas about what climate resilience is, it isn’t always true that communities share those same ideas. Arts-based participatory tools can provide interesting ways of learning about community experiences with climate change and offer insights to policy planning for resilience. Dr. Chesney McOmber joins us from Keene State College to share Community Concept Drawing (CCD, an arts-based method used for development practice and resilience planning.Join us to learn more about the CCD method and try out how to do it!
Event Schedule
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Talk with Dr Chesney McOmber
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Networking Lunch
Organiser and Speaker Biographies
Dr Camilla Audia, University of Warwick
Camilla grew up across Italy, Senegal, and Burkina Faso. She completed her PhD at SOAS in 2018, researching land and resource management during El Nino and La Nina in Burkina Faso. After 7 years as a researcher at King’s College London, she joined the University of Warwick in 2022. Her research focuses on the intersection of climate change, health, and sustainable development, emphasising co-produced knowledge. Camilla uses arts-based and embodied methods, such as photography, film, and theatre, to tackle complex societal issues and challenge traditional policy-science dynamics.
Dr. Chesney McOmber, Keene State College
Chesney is a political scientist specializing in Comparative Politics and International Relations. She studies the human dimensions of climate change and is particularly interested in the processes and mechanisms that promote or enable social transformation to build a climate-resilient future. Her research focuses on environmental politics among marginalized populations, including women, ethnic minorities, and indigenous groups. Chesney's fieldwork experience spans globally, from the United States to South Africa, Jordan, Morocco, Kenya, and Nepal. While some of her recent research has included mixed-methods approaches, her methodological expertise lies in gender analysis, participatory visual methodology, and ethnographic methodology to explore the concept of empowerment amidst environmental change.