Surviving Storms

Create Caribbean is proud to be a partner on the Caribbean Cyclone Cartography | Surviving Storms project in conjunction with scholars from University of London at Goldsmiths, Mona Geoinformatics Institute and other institutions. The project, funded by the Global Climate Research Fund (GCRF), investigates the past, present and future of climate disasters in Dominica, with implications for the wider Caribbean. Create Caribbean interns are focused on the work package called The Dominica Story Project, which seeks to use visual ethnography and digital storytelling to document survivor stories about the 2017 Category 5 Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island. The goal is to gain insight through survivor narratives of Dominica’s vision of its future despite and because of the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of climate change on the vulnerable Caribbean. Interns are also engaged in archival research, focused on documenting the history of storms on the island from as early as the 19th century into the current moment.