Environmental Art Activism and Social Networking Platforms
Categories: Classes, Environmental Art Activism Archive
Title: Environmental Art Activism and Social Networking Platforms
Course number: E90.1022.01
Professor: Natalie Jeremijenko
Summary:
What to do in the face of a climate crisis? How does the social movement around environmental change coalesce? How do cultural ideas interact with technical, material and economic constraints to develop the movement around new environmentalism? How does the contemporary environmental movement differ from its predecessors? How can we reimagine our relationship to natural systems?
Topics:
Environmental Art Activism, Social Networking, Innovative and Inclusive Design
Projects:
1) Me++: Become an Environmental ImPatient
2) Where++:
3) Them++: HowStuffisMade
4) How++: Environmental Health Clinic: Brown sites
5) When++:
Selected texts:
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (Houghton Mifflin Co, 2007)Link to The Death of EnvironmentalismResponse by Carl Pope from the Sierra Club, Laura Fauth from AdBusters, and the Climate Progress Blog.
Kate Stohr, Cameron Sinclair, Design Like you Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humantarian Crisis (Metropolis Books, 2006)
Alex Stephen, World Changing (website)
Simon M. Reader and Kevin N. Laland, Animal Innovation (2003).
Phil Brown, Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement (Columbia Uninversity Press, 2007)
John Thackara, In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World (MIT Press, 2006).
Charles Perrow, The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerablity to Natural, Industrial and Terrorist Disasters (Princeton University Press, 2007)
Related events:
Design Heroix Grand Rounds monthly lecture series
Focus the Nation teach-in
November 4th, 2008 at 12:00 am
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