Prof. Datuin’s talk highlighted the role of the arts and humanities in a proactive approach to disaster risk management. She proposed three perspectives in this approach, namely, the psychosocial, sociopolitical, and ecocritical. The ecocritical perspective, which is the most difficult according to Datuin, aims to surface “largely unconscious narratives that shape our positions and views about our relationships to the environment.” Datuin advocates going beyond anthropocentric conceptions of the environment as a resource for human beings to exploit, and instead nurturing an informed coexistence with the environment and the more-than-human world. Art has “powerful resources that make us sensitive to our surroundings,” says Datuin, and “the ultimate aim of learning about the [environment] is [changing] the way we think about [it].”