On the 7th of November 2022, a rainy Monday morning, we gathered into a classroom in the Professor Stuart Hall building at Goldsmiths University for the UK Symposium for the Surviving Storms | Caribbean Cyclone Cartography project. In the room from Dominica were project collaborators Kaila Ann Guiste and Gibran Espirit (research interns), along with Yuanne Stowe (Project Manager) from …
As the Surviving Storms | Caribbean Cyclone Cartography Project approaches its final months, our first post-research symposium took place at the Fort Young Hotel, in the Commonwealth of Dominica on August 25th and 26th 2022. Each work package presented its outcomes so far at the interactive workshop, which included short films, books (soon to be published), research findings, water irrigation …
Petite Savanne Koudmen (a short film) Repost from EmoNewsDM.Com As part of the Surviving Storms | CCC project, Dominican-British researcher Dr Adom Philogene Heron and his colleague Dr Annabel Wilson visited Petite Savanne to participate in a koudmen (cooperative work) that villagers hold on a Sunday to restore their road. They made a film about the process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X29Na8SIXo ‘Road to Repair’ …
How hurricanes come to be. Hurricane Elsa reaching the Lesser Antilles, 2nd July 2021 Since the beginning of the hurricane season – June 1st 2021 – Dominican residents, and those living throughout the Caribbean, Southern US and Central America, have been monitoring weather systems that leave West Africa and move out across the Atlantic Ocean, on a 3,000-mile journey towards …