Morning Walk — Dismantling, Disrupting, and Deprogramming

Explore guided walks on design, law, storytelling, creative disruption, and organizing as tools to challenge systems and drive action.
About this Event

Registration is FREE and open to all. Priority will be given to those active in climate work from most impacted communities.

Join the Human Impacts Institute for guided walks near Pier 57 which invite participants to engage with climate action through a range of creative and strategic lenses, each walk offers a unique pathway into understanding and shaping change. Together, they create space for reflection, dialogue, and collective imagination around how we dismantle harmful systems and actively build more just and regenerative futures.

WALK 1 – Deprogramming by Design:  This walk looks at how design shapes perception and behavior, and how creative interventions can help deprogram harmful systems and assumptions. Grey Area Collective will lead participants through ideas that reveal the hidden influence of design on everyday life.

WALK 2  – If Words Could Change the World:  This walk invites participants to reflect on the power of language, narrative, and storytelling to shift how people understand and respond to the climate crisis. Climate Writers Collective and the Climate Imaginarium will share how words can shape culture, imagination, and action.

WALK 3 – Mobilising for the Future:  This walk focuses on youth-led organizing, collective power, and the role of movement-building in shaping the future. Sunrise Movement will bring participants into conversation about how people power can drive long-term transformation.

Thanks to funding for this program from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Environmental Justice Grants program.

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