Chiara Basile, Angela Maria Osorio Ménendez, Maria Francesca De Tullio

The workshop’s objective is to have participants reflect on and find strategies for addressing internal dynamics of climate justice movements and build transformative power. We introduce target actor mapping as a useful tool that enables the identification of key players in a specific context and their interests, while accounting for power differentials. Mapping can also be used to identify potential coalitions, design targeted campaigns to maximize the efficient use of resources, anticipate opposition to campaigns and thereby design effective mitigation strategies. The goal for participants is to come up with visual and discursive design strategies for building effective movements to bring about a more just society in the context of climate change, specifically considering issues of intersectionality. We will use the example of the climate justice movement in South Tyrol to explore two dimensions of power: how power is structured within movements as well as how movements influence structures of power in political and social spheres.