To bolster literacy about the localised climate emergency context and the role of arts + culture; cultivate greater understanding of creative resilience approaches in response to the local disaster risk; relationship building to enable longer and deeper cross-sectoral collaboration and how to work with diverse community members and equity-denied groups.

Questions do the heavy-lifting for us to explore:

• How might working with artists and other creative practitioners reimagine disaster preparedness, response and recovery?

• How can we apply creative scenario planning to better understand plausible futures and as a result pathways to be better prepared?

• In what ways can we foster transdisciplinary and intersectional pathways for sustained collaboration and community engagement?

• How might we prioritise intergenerational justice in our disaster preparedness, response and recovery?

Professional development to critically, creatively and carefully understand and negotiate the complexities of the climate crisis - as they relate to disaster risk reduction and resilience in the current context; 

• Deepen understanding of natural hazards and disaster risk, with practice mapping future scenarios as a capability for application; 

• Learn new skills in transdisciplinary collaborative methodologies; 

• Identify opportunities to collaborate to dive deeper given the intersectionality between climate emergency, disaster resilience and arts and culture; and, 

• Enhanced understanding of community-led emergency management and disaster resilience for a broad range of stakeholders; 

• Connect with local artists, Indigenous Custodians, scientists, community representatives and emergency managers for collective knowledge exchange about disaster resilience; 

• Experience a collaborative process and elements thereof that could be applied in various contexts, environments and scales in community-led disaster risk reduction and resilience: and, 

• Learn more inclusive ways to work with equity-denied communities.