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“Introduction to Environmental Art.”
Linda Weintraub introduces eco-art strategies, genres, issues, and, approaches.
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Gyre: Creating Art From a Plastic Ocean
This film follows a team travelling to Alaska to examine how much of our garbage has ended up in the region’s gyre—a rotating ocean current.
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Microtopia
This film displays ideas and experiments in art and architecture to design and dwell in portable, flexible, environmentally-friendly off-grid and compact homes.
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¡Vivan las Antipodas!
In ¡Vivan las Antipodas!, award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky visits four rare inhabited regions of the world that are antipodal to other landmasses and creates unexpected images that turn our view of the world upside-down.
Perspectives
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Politics and Culture of Waste
Waste is never completely or permanently “out of sight.” Once discarded, it undergoes transformations, often reappearing elsewhere in new forms. In this volume of RCC Perspectives, scholars from different disciplines—from history and art history, urban geography, environmental studies, and anthropology—investigate the traces waste leaves behind in the course of its travels.
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Plastic, Oil Culture and the Ethics of Waste
Artwork and film projects have the potential to expose trash in a variety of forms and help us visualize, acknowledge, and critique larger systems in which plastic waste circulates and operates.
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Reflections on Water: Knowing a River
Dudley draws on her experience of researching the Severn River, UK, to reflect on what it means to know a place. The river is constituted through legal documents, maps, regulations, through the lived experience of recreational users, and through imaginative and artistic practices. These multiple ways of knowing a river can inform philosophies of place and space.
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Why Do Human Perceptions of Beauty Change? The Construction of the Aesthetic Niche
Portera posits that human niche construction can provide insight into how aesthetic standards develop within human societies and cultures. Standards of beauty tend to evolve through cultural niche construction behavior and biological evolution.
Arcadia
The Good, the Bad, and the Ague: Defining Healthful Airs in Early Modern England
Combating malaria through travel, diet, natural remedies, and architecture in early modern England.
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On Garbage
By detailing the waste we have discarded, John Scanlan argues that we can learn new things about the building blocks of our culture; he throws new light on the modern condition by examining not what we have kept, but what we have thrown away.