Climate change

Conversations with the earth
 

Indigenous Voices on Climate Change


Compared to the dominant industrialized societies, Indigenous Peoples have contributed least to climate change. Still, they suffer the brunt of the immediate and direct effects of escalating climate disruption. Conversations with the Earth is a way of listening closely to traditional custodians of the world’s biocultural diversity in order to formulate viable global responses to environmental challenges. (Multimedia stories from: Ethiopia, USA- Arctic polar circle, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea…).


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BIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY

People and plants
 

A Journey into Central Asia’s biocultural diversity


PEOPLE AND PLANTS is working to preserve the information and knowledge, unique connection to the land and traditional respect for the surrounding ecosystems that local farmers and traditional healers in Central Asia have acquired and passed down over many generations. (Multimedia stories from: Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan).


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CULTURAL TRANSMISSION

Voices from the Andes
 

Andean oral tradition through talking portraits


An invitation to share encounters with Quechua and Aymara people of the Andes Cordillera. Living witnesses of the traditional oral culture, they tell their stories, individual or collective, real or imaginary.
(Multimedia stories from: Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia).


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Deeply concerned with both the richness and fragility of biocultural diversity, Nicolas Villaume has founded in 2004 the french organisation CONVERSATIONS DU MONDE (CDM). Based in Paris and Lima, this structure is focused on cultural empowerment and environmental awareness building rich multimedia exhibitions using the emotional power of complementary digital arts, photography and innovating sound talking portraits technics.

CDM has been partnering through the years with major institutions like UNESCO or the UNITED NATIONS, and received the support of important groundbreaking foundations working on the frontline of biocultural diversity preservation like The Christensen Fund or the Silicon Valley Community.

In 15 years, we have produced more than 40 innovative multimedia exhibitions in all continents, working with museums like the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indians, in Washington DC; the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DENMARK; and CLIMAFORUMS in the frame of the Climate COP Conference of Parties. In South America, collabrations with the solid cultural network of the Alliance Francaise and key Museums. We also organized dozens of grass roots venues in villages from remote Papua New Guinea islands, to high altitud andean communities, to develop local capacity building and celebrate the importance of cultural indentity at the very source.

Deeply concerned with both the richness and fragility of biocultural diversity, Nicolas Villaume has founded in 2004 the french organisation CONVERSATIONS DU MONDE . Based in Paris and Lima, this structure is focused on cultural empowerment and environmental awareness building rich multimedia exhibitions using the emotional power of complementary digital arts, photography and innovating sound talking portraits technics.

Through the years, we have partnered with major institutions like UNESCO, the UNITED NATIONS, and received the support of important groundbreaking foundations working on the frontline of biocultural diversity preservation like THE CHRISTENSEN FUND or the Silicon Valley Community.

In 15 years, we have produced more than 40 innovative multimedia exhibitions worldwide, working with the SMITHSONIAN National Museum of the American Indians, in Washington DC; the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DENMARK; CLIMAFORUMS in the frame of the Climate COP Conference of Parties… In South America, we developed solid collaborations with the Alliance Française wild spread cultural network and key Museums. We also organised dozens of grass roots venues in remote villages in all continents, from Papua New Guinea islands, to high altitude Andean communities, to develop local capacity building and celebrate the importance of cultural identity at the very source.

Compared to the dominant industrialized societies, Indigenous Peoples have contributed least to climate change. Still, they suffer the brunt of the immediate and direct effects of escalating climate disruption. Conversations with the Earth is a way of listening closely to traditional custodians of the world’s biocultural diversity in order to formulate viable global responses to environmental challenges. (Multimedia stories from: Ethiopia, USA- Arctic polar circle, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea…).

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PEOPLE AND PLANTS is working to preserve the information and knowledge, unique connection to the land and traditional respect for the surrounding ecosystems that local farmers and traditional healers in Central Asia have acquired and passed down over many generations. (Multimedia stories from: Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan).

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An invitation to share encounters with Quechua and Aymara people of the Andes Cordillera. Living witnesses of the traditional oral culture, they tell their stories, individual or collective, real or imaginary.
(Multimedia stories from: Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia).

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