Adaptation Spaceship

Francesca Desmarais and Kelton Minor bring a design mindset to adaptation, asking how do we use climate science to design adaptive behaviours and services? They discuss the relationship between design and fiction, and the emerging role of climate fiction prototyping to imagine and rehearse the future in pursuit of adaptive design.

Kelton Minor and Francesca Desmarais build upon the topics of resilience and adaptation by exploring how social ecology affects human systems as we adapt to climate change. They discuss vulnerability, nested systems, physical and mental health stressors, and ecological justice—particularly with an eye to the impacts and vulnerabilities in Costa Rica.

Kelton Minor and Francesca Desmarais dive into the concept of climate impacts and adaptation, starting from the natural ecology of Costa Rica. They discuss impacts on organisms and how they respond to shifting ecosystems: migration, competition, co-stressors, and uncertainty.