This participatory workshop invites citizens to explore how climate-related risks are affecting Nicosia and to contribute their own knowledge and experiences to the conversation around the city’s future resilience.

The workshop begins with a short introduction to the Pathways2Resilience (P2R) and CLIMAAX-NIC projects and their research into three key climate risks: the urban heat island effect (UHIE), flooding and drought. Participants will explore interactive climate-risk maps developed for Nicosia, gaining insight into how scientific data helps identify areas of vulnerability across the city.

The focus will then shift from data to lived experience. Working collectively on a large-scale map of Nicosia, participants will locate the places where they live, work and regularly move through the city, highlighting areas where they have personally experienced excessive heat, flooding, water scarcity or other climate-related challenges. These observations will be compared with the scientific risk maps, opening a conversation around where data and everyday experience intersect — and where they might tell different stories.

The workshop concludes by moving from mapping problems to imagining responses. Participants will exchange local knowledge, practices and ideas for how their neighbourhoods could better respond and adapt to climate-related challenges.

By bringing together scientific assessment and community knowledge, the workshop contributes to a broader understanding of climate resilience at the local level. The experiences and ideas gathered will inform policy recommendations for future climate adaptation planning, creating a pathway for citizens’ perspectives to shape conversations about how Nicosia responds to a changing climate.