Tag: USA

iLAB Residencies Call for Proposals

iLAND is now accepting applications for the 2011 round of iLAB Residencies. The deadline to apply is March 18, 2011. iLAB is a collaborative residency program between movement based artists and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects, architects and others that integrate creative practice within the different fields/disciplines through an engagement with the ecology of New… Continue reading iLAB Residencies Call for Proposals

Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism – Performing Ecology

By Aviva Rahmani Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism is a systematic way to initiate “environmental triage.” The theory includes strategies to restore degraded environments characterized by 8 premises and 12 procedural actions that draw equally from science and art. In workshop form, it is a methodology that integrates charettes, metaphorical allusions, role-playing embodiment techniques,… Continue reading Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism – Performing Ecology

H20: The Art of Conservation

This post comes to you from Green Public Art / Reposted from the CSPA website H20: The Art of Conservation May 6 – November 12, 2011 at The Water Conservation Garden 12122 Cuyamaca College Drive West, El Cajon, CA 92019 This unique exhibition, curated by Green Public Art, offers San Diego homeowners an artistic alternative… Continue reading H20: The Art of Conservation

Performing Ecology, a Vision for the Gulf of Mexico

Please join Aviva Rahmani for the launch of two new films, Desecration and Resurrection. The premiere is part of the eartotheearth festival www.emfproductions.org As the British Petroleum oil spill unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico, a restored intertidal salt marsh in the Gulf of Maine was coming back to life. Performing Ecology, a Vision for the… Continue reading Performing Ecology, a Vision for the Gulf of Mexico

Metropolis Books Announces a Revolutionary Design Book

GREEN PATRIOT POSTERS Images for a New Activism Edited by Edward Morris, Dmitri Siegel. Text by Michael Bierut, Thomas L. Friedman, Steven Heller Edward Morris, Dmitri Siegel (Metropolis Books) In association with ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND and THE CANARY PROJECT Featuring 50 of the best contemporary posters on the theme of sustainability by artists and designers… Continue reading Metropolis Books Announces a Revolutionary Design Book

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop in Sustainable Development

May 6th-7th, 2011: Columbia University in the City of New York, USA The graduate students in sustainable development at Columbia University are convening the first Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop in Sustainable Development (IPWSD); scheduled for May 6th-7th, 2011, at Columbia University in New York City.