The Art of Resilience exhibit brings together international artists, technologists, and makers representing Latin America, South and East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the United States. Curated from a global call for entries, The Art of Resilience demonstrates how art can unite a range of disciplines—big data, scientific research, and community organizing—to further the understanding and communication of disaster and climate risk. The Art of Resilience aims to showcase how these new synergies can uniquely and directly support societal efforts to build widespread resilience to disasters and climate change.
Organized by the Labs team of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the World Bank Group Art Program, The Art of Resilience includes a wide range of the creative arts—from public art installations, data visualization, and analog photography to digital media, sculpture, and painting. This diversity of mediums, from the more traditional to the hyper-contemporary, highlights how art can be layered atop, placed alongside, or embedded within scientific research to communicate the lived experience of climate change and disaster risk.