Civic Art Lab (Virtual)

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Our 9th annual Civic Art Lab considers creative interventions in the management of waste, chemicals and hazardous materials, and water. Urbanization, population growth, and climate change have led to challenges with solid and hazardous waste generation and disposal, and has put stress on water resources. This year’s lab investigates the ways that designers, artists, creative technologists, policy makers, activists, and educators are working to deal with these impacts and what projects are being undertaken to mitigate these risks.

Welcome

Laura Scherling and Jeff Kasper

Presentations: 11:20-1:30 pm

[De]Composition
Skylar Perez

STEAM School Yard Forest Ecology Research Project
CJ Reilly III

Reclaimed Narratives: Artistic Interventions in Environmental Wastelands
Camila Morales and Dominika Ksel

Holobiont Urbanism: Reciprocity in a Multispecies City
Elizabeth Hénaff, Léonard Roussel, Seth Wenger, Heather Parrish

Circular Bionutrient Economics - An Undisciplinary Initiative in Art, Science, Soil, Water, and Waste
Andrew Freiband, Rebecca Nelson, Lucinda Li

1:30 pm- 2:30 pm - Lunch

Artist Talks: 2:30 pm- 4:00 pm

Coral Projects
Vanessa Albury

Mama Spa Botánica: Hovering Above Redlines & Tidelines
Coralina Rodriguez Meyer

Pecha Kucha Presentations: 4:00 pm- 4:30 pm

Climate Privilege
Ankita Nalavade

Freedom is a Leaky System: Living Together in the Mess
Calgary Haines-Trautman

Blueprints by Worms: Transforming Plastic Waste
Jasmine Gutbrod

Closing Presentation: 4:30 pm- 4:50 pm

Waste Not, Want Not
Yasmeen Abdallah

For questions email Laura and Jeff
at Laura.Scherling@tc.columbia.edu and jeffkasper@umass.edu