40% of agricultural land in Bangladesh will be lost due to a 65cm sea level rise by the 2080s, and about 20 million people are already affected by this. Many people migrate to major towns. Others have developed innovative climate-smart floating farms: a sustainable practice in which crops and vegetables are grown in soil-less floating platforms constructed from aquatic weeds.

We partnered with a Bangladeshi NGO to explore the mounting national concerns related to the climate crisis and took these issues back to the communities to unpack them through a series of workshops. 

Building on the insight shared, we worked with communities to co-produce an immersive media series, told in the words of communities feeling the harshest impacts of climate change.

Combining their lived experience with our professional production skills, we were able to illustrate their narration using 360 videos and pictures, Google Earth historical satellite images, and drone imagery to capture flourishing floating gardens.

This series celebrates an innovative community solution that draws on the resources and capacity of communities to sustain their livelihoods and contribute to future models of agriculture. It reached a global audience and was able to reframe climate-affected communities as agents of change rather than passive recipients of aid and support. 

In December 2020, the film was screened to world leaders and activists at the Climate Ambition Summit as an example of what can be achieved through community action.