(Un)-blanketing Indigenous Climate Change Indicators for Understanding Local Climate Change

We (local researchers, Indigenous communities, local stakeholders, and a researcher bridging the places) have worked together over the last two years, in the project Indigenous Climate Observatories, local knowledge for local action to define such observatories, what they become when practiced and what this could mean. They focus on understanding climate change from local perspectives. Each of the explorations started with a blanket, used as a design seed to facilitate a meeting space. They all resulted in a blanket which can be seen as manifestations of each of the different Indigenous Climate Observatories, a boundary object. This pictorial presents the blankets, how they were made, and their role in the process. The blankets were of great importance to ‘work knowledges together’ [41]. By doing this weaving of knowledges, we accept diverse forms of knowledge systems as equitable and respectfully learn together to understand climate change through a multitude of perspectives.