[Past] 55 Climate + Technology + Justice: Designing Nature's Futures - Summer 2023
CLASS NUMBER:
780-02
INSTRUCTOR:
TIME:
Fridays, 2-5 PM
LOCATION:
GLS House, 2114 Campus Drive
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DESCRIPTION:
In this course we’ll explore how digital technologies are altering climate and acting toward its preservation. We’ll look at human-earth-technology relations and possible planetary futures. If the earth, the human, and technology are no longer separable, or even thinkable in isolation, we need models for reflecting critically about our physically-entangled global ecological systems.
The culminating assignment will be an interdisciplinary research project that integrates course readings and outside research to meaningfully reflect on the interrelation of climate, technology, and culture. Research and expertise come in many shapes in this class, so we’ll read across fields and formats. Projects can be individual or collaborative and can include such elements as community eco-partnerships, global social activism, multimedia reflections, speculative design projects, land-based art or performance, written reports, graphic narratives, manifestos, collective action, or digital products.
Environmental Studies, Sociology, Technology