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"Environmental Policy Narratives" and "The place of justice in legal design"
Environmental Policy Narratives: Exploring 鈥榩olicy narratives鈥� is a growing area of research and practice. 鈥楴arratives鈥� are ways of framing language to 鈥減romote or prioritise particular ideas or values鈥�. Documenting and extracting meaning from these narratives in environmental domains requires the integration of theory and practice across a range of disciplines as well as an understanding of how knowledge and perspectives from diverse stakeholders interact within decision-making contexts. This contribution reflects on the power and potential of narratives from three recent activities: 1) working to support blue-green infrastructure decision-making at metropolitan scale in Santiago, Chile; 2) exploring green space narratives in London, UK and Melbourne, Australia; and 3) discussing narrative construction in environmental policy fiction with staff and students at UCL.
The place of justice in legal design: Legal design argues for incorporating design-based methods to address problems in legal systems. It advocates for user centricity, plain language,鈥�痚xperimentation in how the law is developed, circulated, and used. In this presentation, I will draw from my research and practice in legal design, to explore what legal design brings to address structural injustices in society, and if and how it can address barriers to access to justice.鈥疉ccess to justice, as a concept, is multi-faceted and includes symbolic, locational, linguistic, informational, and financial components. It is a concept critical to ensure the participation of people in decision-making processes, greater transparency in terms of the ability to understand procedures, and accountability through holding different agencies of the State responsible.鈥疘 will draw from my experiences of running Justice Adda , a law and design social venture in India, as well as from a teaching lab in The Netherlands to reflect on the potential and limitations of legal design as an approach.鈥疘鈥痟ope to use the presentation to discuss with colleagues about how to develop academic outputs from my practice.