Toolkit – Art and Community Engagement as Restorative Practices
Developed by Margherita Pevere and Céline Charveriat with Pro(to)topia, this toolkit explores how art and community engagement can serve as restorative practices in the face of environmental trauma.
Toolkit Art and Community Engagement as Restorative Practices
Developed by Margherita Pevere and Céline Charveriat with Pro(to)topia, this toolkit explores how art and community engagement can serve as restorative practices in the face of environmental trauma.
Art and community engagement as restorative practices in contexts of environmental trauma and grief
The toolkit combines simple and affordable methods of community engagement, artistic practices and co-creation to shape a safe space to process environmental trauma and overwhelming emotions and create social impact.
The toolkit draws on the community engagement program conducted in 2024 in the municipality of Santa Comba Dão in Portugal, which wasaffected by extreme wildfires in 2017.
The program was part of an art, science and policy project titled Lament developed by artist Margherita Pevere which addresses death from an ecological perspective, developed in the context of the NaturArchy Resonances Project at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
