Solar Totems and Wave Walls
Wind-activated undulating walls and solar-activated etchings carved onto reclaimed redwood: the San Francisco-based artist Charles Sowers makes my heart sing!
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Wild Science: Experiments in Nature and the Vanishing Amazon
I was in the Amazon jungle where, despite the heat and humidity, I was so excited I could barely contain
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The Big Invisible
“One of the greatest legacies of the 20th century is not just population explosion or better living standards, but vastly
Biophilia and Beauty
Over the last three years, I have sought to develop work in new ways in order to offer an alternative
We Are the Climate
The task here is to look at theatre and climate change within the context of the current administration. Yep, that administration. The one that is attempting to eliminate climate consciousness from the national narrative by removing the climate page from the White House website, threatening to slash the EPA by one-third, and green-lighting the Keystone Pipeline project in the face of enormous coordinated dissent. Yep, the one that favors entertainment—heck, the one that is entertainment—but is not at all interested in artworks activating complex, nuanced conversation around current issues, and proposed to eradicate the NEA and the NEH completely from the federal budget. Yep, that administration. Well, shall we start the way we often do? Theatre is a storytelling, community-based phenomenon that manages to survive, if not thrive, on next to nothing and is the perfect means to effectively counter the current administration’s “alternative facts” and erasure, especially in these divisive times…blah, blah climate blah f*cking Trump blah Pruitt EPA zzz blah NEA slashed z zzzz Betsy DeVos zz zzz education
(Art) Work-in-Progress: The Garden as Exhibition Space
Museums and others cultural agents are key interfaces between the government and the public. As a centerpiece of the Age
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Confronting Earth’s Trauma
Last year, I traveled to the Galápagos Islands. I felt I had stepped back to a place I recognized from
Non-Human Narratives: Stories of Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses
Making worlds is not limited to humans. (…) In fact, all organisms make ecological living places, altering earth, air, and
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Exploring Tourism and Contemporary Societies’ Effect on Three Utopian Ideals
What makes people chase that utopian destination and what happens when they get there? Since 2013 I have been interested
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Jumping Rope With the Wind
It’s hard to keep up with Daan Roosegaarde, the internationally acclaimed visionary creative change-maker whose nature-driven social design lab, Studio Roosegaarde,