Between September 2024 and January 2025, Agnes Elfvingsson, an Interaction Design bachelor’s student from Malmö University, interned under Lizette Reitsma on the Indigenous Climate Observatories project. One of Agnes’s main tasks was to create a model to illustrate the project’s overall process. You can read more about the project and the steps involved under the About section of this webpage, which details how the Indigenous Climate Observatories were developed. For specific insights into the processes at each project location—Eswatini, Lesotho, and Malaysia—see the sections for those locations.
While working on visualizing the project’s process, Lizette and Agnes came up with the idea of creating a “toolbox” designed to guide others interested in creating their own climate observatory or reflecting on similar projects. The toolbox provides a step-by-step approach to planning the process of creating a climate observatory.
This Toolbox is meant to be a tool to reflect on the process and steps when creating an observatory, and does not specifically go into detail on how to create an observatory.
The toolbox is available as a downloadable file, which you can view on your screen or print out, as shown in the main image. If using it on a screen, be sure to have paper, fabric, or other materials for notes, along with a pen and scissors to engage fully with the activities in the toolbox.
Two files are available for download below: one contains the complete toolbox, and the other includes a separate, larger-scale model of the project process and its steps, ideal for printing in A4, A3, or larger formats.
All instructions for using the toolbox are included in the download. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to leave a comment on this post.