Suitcase Stories: Exploring Climate Adaptation through Participatory Storytelling with Young People

In 2022, young people in Batley and Leeds worked with storytellers and researchers from York St John University, exploring true stories of climate adaptation from around the world. The young people used what they learnt to create short stories, that could pack into suitcases and which communicated how people are already experiencing the effects of climate change and what we can learn from this. This short film takes you on the journey of the project. Project conducted by Olalekan Adekola, Catherine Heinemeyer, Natalie Quatermass, Matthew Reason and Natalie Wood, York St John University. Filmed and edited by Dermot Daly. Music by Cameron Smith. Funded by Natural Environment Research Council. Thanks to Batley Girls' High School. For further information visit: www.yorksj.ac.uk/ISJ