Events

This panel considers the violent legacies of capitalism’s exploitation and appropriation of nature. It inquires into how views of natural systems as separate from human systems–political, social, and economic–may be part of the problem we face in confronting climate change.

The Natural History Museum presents a day-long anthropological workshop for students from the Hemispheric Institute at New York University. Topics covered include institutional critique, interventionism, and the politics of display. Includes a guided tour of and exercises within the American Museum of Natural History.

NY Arts Practicum students participated in a workshop outlining the climate movement and radical potential for change. Independent Summer Program, NYC

Students from The New School attended a workshop that examined practices within museums and then crafted their own interventions. Design for Sustainability, The New School, NYC

Collaborating with a NY Polytechnic Institute professor, this two day workshop explores augmented reality applications on smart devices. Students, after learning about the politics of augmented reality applications, will be encouraged to bring smart devices to explore the American Museum of Natural History. Through inserting what is excluded, this workshop trains workshop goers to see the excluded and question the unexplored.