A creative approach to community climate action | Xavier Cortada

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🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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When he learned of the threat that rising sea levels posed to his coastal hometown of Miami, Florida, eco-artist Xavier Cortada founded a movement around beautifully designed elevation markers highlighting the risk of flood damage. The collaborative art project quickly mobilized action -- and excited some controversy. Watch as Cortada offers a creative vision of community organizing inspired by art that engages, educates and empowers.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:07.2	Artist Xavier Cortada is a practitioner of EcoArt.
0:10.8	He uses art to engage people with the ecosystems around them.
0:14.7	In his talk from the Ted Countdown London session in 2022, he shows us the power of this
0:19.9	kind of art to plant seeds of awareness and build personal connections with nature.
0:25.8	And as you'll hear after the break, it can create pathways for action.
0:32.8	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:35.8	Welcome to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick.
0:40.6	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:45.0	people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
0:50.4	This season we're rethinking culture with producer, director, screenwriter, comedian, Adam
0:55.4	McKay.
0:56.4	Even if it's silly, your stuff's going to play better if you aim for art.
1:02.4	And you miss, you're going to end up with comedy, but if you aim for comedy and you miss,
1:07.5	you get junk.
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