Darwin remarked that it wasn’t the strongest or smartest who survived change but those who learnt how to adapt best.
The Arks Project is about building an ‘adaptive learning network’ using community storytelling, across Oceania and the Pacific Rim as a first step to building a new sustainable and peaceful world.
Faced with rapidly escalating climate and global changes, communities in the Oceania and Pacific Rim are struggling to adapt and develop alternative sustainable livelihoods.
Coral reef bleaching, the threatened collapse of fisheries, deforestation, the push for new oil plantation crops and the decline in prices of traditional crops like sugar see many communities struggling.
The Arks project seeks to support communities to re-story their futures… to develop adaptive strategies, local solutions, enhance their self-reliance, resilience and leadership capabilities to better respond to these rapidly cascading changes.
We have started building partnerships with Pacific Rim and Oceania communities to enable sustainable transitions.
Our focus is helping build community learning centres or Arks using upgraded recycled computers to help communities to tell their stories and share local solutions around how they are adapting to climate global change.
We are helping communities to shoot and produce their own digital stories and intend to grow a storytelling-learning network that shares the learning around how communities’ are regenerating their ecologies, local economies and are building sustainable social enterprises.
Our next steps…
To grow a network of community learning ICT centres that connect young people across communities and refugee camps to develop local novel responses and culturally rich learning around sustainable pathways and futures.
To expand partnerships and build the network across Oceania and Pacific Rim communities and take the next step into Southern regions such as Africa and Asia.
