The Mistra Environmental Communication Research Programme Component at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism (ICSJ)


The film "New Modes of Environmental Communication: Four Street Art Experiments" has been selected for Film Geography's RGS-IBG 2023 screening, organized under the theme of Climate Changed Geographies. The online screening took place on 30 August 2023, Wednesday, from 16.20 to 18.00 (BST) and could be watched on Filmgeographies platform after registration. A wider public screening of the selected films will be organised later in the year.

“New Modes of Environmental Communication: Four Street Art Experiments” by Ali Minanto reflects on how knowledge about the environment is produced and shared in creative ways. The film features the experiment, where academic researchers, based at Charles University in Prague and affiliated to the Mistra Environmental Communication Research Program and the 4EU+ European University Alliance, commissioned four Indonesian street artists to produce four street artworks in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta: “Welcome New Pollution” by Anagard, “Plant Trees Plant Hope” by Guerrillas, “Plastic Reduce” by Kinky Twenty, and “Planting Determination” by Young Surakarta, providing visual (and highly visible) alternative discourses that critique indifference towards, and exploitation of, the environment.

Read more about the film at: https://mistra.fsv.cuni.cz/videos#films

With the annual theme of Climate Changed Geographies, the Royal Geographical Society's RGS-IBG 2023 conference invites a conversation about how climate change is, and is not, changing the discipline – the ways of knowing, exploring, understanding and acting geographically – and with what consequences. It also opens up debates about the kinds of geographies – urban, political, social, cultural, economic, regional, glacial, fluvial and more – that are and are not being changed by climate change.