Events

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.

This panel looks at the ways the structure of exhibitions, design and communication influences how we see what is natural in the autopoietic habitats of the contemporary.

Shifting strategies–from denialism to obfuscation, advertising, and public relations–mislead the public. People become cynical and uncertain, mistrusting of any and all efforts to confront the changing climate. With science under attack, what is to be done? How might we break through the propaganda fog and into collective action?

Wes Gillingham, Program Director of Catskill Mountainkeeper, uses the Watershed Model to illustrate the potential impact of fracking of NYC’s water supply.