Climate and Environment Futures: Penryn Challenge

Challenge overview

How do we change climate change? And what does the future look like?

In this Grand Challenge on the Penryn campus, students and staff came together to imagine, invent and inspire the change we need to save the planet from environmental and climate crisis. Students focused on how we find solutions, how we live, how we make money, how we make communities resilient… and how we tell the story and learn from our past. The important thing in this challenge was to explore, as creatively as possible, what these changes will mean to our everyday lives and our environment in future decades.

During the week, students heard from some keynote speakers, spent time researching their chosen topic, and imagined what life would look like under their chosen scenario. Each group produced a creative output to share their vision with all participants at the end of the week, including presentations, videos, pieces of music, and social media campaigns.