Research Seminar/Log 28 02 2024

OCEANS/UNI PACIFIC RESISTANCE Session 3

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First Talk— Ann Mary Raduva / Fiji Activist

—Founder of Young eco champions league

https://www.iucn.org/news/oceania/201909/fijis-young-climate-change-campaigner

—»Mangroves will help, but you have to plant thousands!«

—“I also created the Young Eco-Champions network for the children under 18 to reshape the awareness landscape around climate change and the ecological crisis and I am confident that this network of young, inspired and empowered environment activists will create change in protecting our environment.”

—Started “Say No to Balloon Releasing” Balloon releasing are deadly to marine animals.

—Her late family members are storytellers that taught the importance of their surrounding nature and minimalistic lifestyle.

—authenticity of traditional way of living.

—Interaction between local policy makers / lot of work to do for our voices to be heard..

Relay on foreign help

Second Talk Martha Atienza and Jake Atienza, GOODland, Central Philippines

https://marthaatienza.com/martha-atienza.html

https://www.jakeatienza.com/about-me

Central Philippines Bantayan Island, founded GOODland

https://www.goodland.ph/

»we should not own the sea or the land, but we should protecting it. «

—Create content that could be shared in different environments. Art Installation Mangroves karaoke machine that puts mangroves up and down  - resembles different water levels.

—connecting with other islands like Hawaii.

—Marine Protected Area: Mambacayao Daku

—How do they work on Goodland:

Phase 1: How to respond and prevent the Removal of Wilderness Area Status

Phase 2: Creating a voice for Fisherfolk (Marine protected area: Mambacayao Daku), Installation Fisherfolks Day - https://www.goodland.ph/fisherfolk.html

You need Marine Police to protect Marine protected areas. It’s good on paper but in reality it is difficult to get authorities to monitore. Biggest challenge. Navigation of the legal language of politics to have a voice is key. Being taken serious by all these official institutions.

Phase 3: Community based Archiving ( Remembering knowledge + stories, community based research), Cebu Technical University, create a voice, actively making sure that people are heard and not impacted negatively

Q&As

—https://careof.org/progetti/2022/matteo-stocco-metagoon

relation to Matteo Stocco’s “Metagoon” project

—Louise Carver Jamaika asked how to bring local community into a bigger dialog.

(Louise Carver is a critical geographer exploring how scientific knowledge interfaces with politics through social and environmental systems. Her research, writing and other activities are informed by social theory, institutional critique and ethnographic methods, while also engaging with the arts and critical design as experimental methods).

—Did you get help from the art world? Art World has given a  platform, Art Basel gave a price for Goodland. But coming back to batayan — things got worse. Nothing happened.

—(...)was wondering about the audience response to the projects from urban Filipinos (in art scene or outside, and urban fisherfolk) in contrast to internationally or locally?

I’m asking because I also grew up in Manila and studied in Hawai’i, but more recently the untranslatability of Indigenous knowledge (Hawai’i, Pacific) for urban Manila students or Filipino-Americans has been as tough as with Europeans.

—Martha Atienza: Fisherman Bantayan are not afraid of changes of the sea the tide they try to adapt, they life with it. Different perspective.