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Ireland’s climate is changing with impacts already being felt, and expected to continue and intensify, especially in coastal towns and cities, across Derry-Londonderry and Mayo, vulnerable to coastal and riverine floods. Floods and their catchments don’t abide by administrative, geographical or political boundaries, as such knowledge exchange and learning between flood-affected communities and other government, scientific and policy actors is crucial.  BluePrint addresses this need using a creative co-creation process in the Derry City and Strabane District area. The project held an [All-Island Learning and Exchange Workshop](https://wilderland.materialsmatter.ie/events/blueprint.html).in Mayo in 2024 to share experiences on creative co-creation with communities supporting climate adaptation and resilience. Community participants involved the BluePrint project highlighted the value of the ongoing creative engagement process for sharing lived-experiences and the potential power of the resulting output to support wider climate risk communication with communities and decision-makers. Participants reflected on how the event helped to demonstrate the value of building connections, integrating local knowledge and supporting diverse and transdisciplinary engagement to address flooding and climate challenges, as well as the importance of remaining hopeful and positive towards finding solutions that build community resilience. The All-Island learning and exchange continued in Derry-Londonderry with participation from Cllr. Michael Loftus (Cathaoirleach Ballina MD), Laura Dixon (Mayo County Council) and Crossmolina Community Council, during the BluePrint showcase events in October 2024. The learning captured from the creative co-creation process in Derry-Londonderry and the learning exchange with Mayo resulted in a Creative Co-creation Toolkit targeting local governments and other professionals working with communities adapting to climate change across Ireland. All-Island learning exchange with Mayo and a creative co-creation toolkit to support actors working with communities on climate adaptation and flood resilience across the island of Ireland. Social engaged artist Sara Walmsley creatively engaged communities to **co-create an artwork** to communicate their lived experiences and support wider climate resilience outreach, engagement and policy in Derry-Londonderry and beyond.  Experiences from the co-creation process in Derry-Londonderry were shared in Mayo through an **All-Island two-way learning and exchange** bringing together communities and other artists, government actors and scientific partners working on, or interested in, creative co-creation processes for engaging communities around climate adaptation and resilience.