The Science and Art of Telling New Environmental Stories
Presented by the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment & School of Art & Design
Speaker: Mrill Ingram, PhD
When: Friday, October 25th 2019 at 2:30pm
Where: Bate 1028
A recording of the talk will be available below after the talk has finished:
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“I’ve long obsessed about “orphan spaces” — the ubiquitous isolated, ignored, and often polluted places routinely produced by human development. I see them as a contemporary frontier, previously overlooked and dismissed space that is being pulled into a broader consciousness as our environments are rapidly shifting around us, and in unexpected ways. Art, science and technology are transforming these spaces and our relationships to them. New projects in orphan spaces are responding to multiple challenges at once, including polluted stormwater, food sovereignty, environmental injustice, as well as flooding, drought, rising oceans, and other impacts of climate change. Central to these shifts are new stories and new relationships through which we give these spaces meaning in our lives. New stories can reject purely functionalist narratives about the environment and can include new voices talking about our common dwelling place called Earth.“
– Mrill Ingram, PhD
