Environmental Art Activism and Social Networking Platforms:

Environmental Art Activism and Social Networking Platforms
E90.1022.01Professor: Natalie Jeremijenko
TA: Max LiboironW
8:55 am – 12:15 pm

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++:

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 Environmentalism

Response 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)

Heroix Lectures
Starting with Dr. Mary Loe JepsenWed, 01/30/2008 6-8pm

Survey Paper/Focus the Nation teach-in

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