Campification
2019/2019
As our natural environment faces diverse challenges to its well-being,
Campification will serve as an opportunity for students to engage the
scientific, economic, political and social systems that scaffold our relationships with the natural world. As a team, we will explore the degrees of access, understanding and interaction that humans have with nature, as well as how these levels of contact can impact our regard for preserving, or exploiting, natural spaces and the resources found within them.
At the outset of this project, our students will explore ideas of ‘nature’ and
identify issues facing the natural world. Through citizen science, photography,
writing and time outdoors, they will generate art dealing with potential impacts
of these challenges and compile it in a publication that will be exhibited for our
community. With these impacts in mind, our students will develop design and
fabrication skills that work to actively promote human interaction with nature.
This work will include creating personal camping equipment, and will
culminate in the collaborative design and construction of a custom pop-up
truck camper.
Essential Questions:
-What is ‘Nature’? Why might ideas of ‘Nature’ differ?
-What factors might affect an individual’s access to nature? What role does
access play in our regard for the natural world?
-How might we design and create products that promote our abilities to
access nature?
Campification will serve as an opportunity for students to engage the
scientific, economic, political and social systems that scaffold our relationships with the natural world. As a team, we will explore the degrees of access, understanding and interaction that humans have with nature, as well as how these levels of contact can impact our regard for preserving, or exploiting, natural spaces and the resources found within them.
At the outset of this project, our students will explore ideas of ‘nature’ and
identify issues facing the natural world. Through citizen science, photography,
writing and time outdoors, they will generate art dealing with potential impacts
of these challenges and compile it in a publication that will be exhibited for our
community. With these impacts in mind, our students will develop design and
fabrication skills that work to actively promote human interaction with nature.
This work will include creating personal camping equipment, and will
culminate in the collaborative design and construction of a custom pop-up
truck camper.
Essential Questions:
-What is ‘Nature’? Why might ideas of ‘Nature’ differ?
-What factors might affect an individual’s access to nature? What role does
access play in our regard for the natural world?
-How might we design and create products that promote our abilities to
access nature?
Farmification
Spring 2018
Much of the living spaces in our community are underutilized and have the potential to provide food resources, collect & store water, and attract & support pollinators and dispersers. In a time when much of our food comes with serious questions regarding nutrition, health, environmental and ethical impacts, Farmification will be an opportunity to delve deeply into the science, systems & philosophies behind both industrial & urban agricultural practices.
Throughout the semester we will work to understand the issues around space and resources and collaborate with clients to design, build and install products that will allow them greater connection to their resources.
Essential Questions:
What do we know about the industrial practices used to provide food and drinking water for our communities?
What types of resources can we access and utilize from our living spaces?
Throughout the semester we will work to understand the issues around space and resources and collaborate with clients to design, build and install products that will allow them greater connection to their resources.
Essential Questions:
What do we know about the industrial practices used to provide food and drinking water for our communities?
What types of resources can we access and utilize from our living spaces?
Communification
Fall 2017
Our human and biological communities have become fragmented and fractured. Both are in need of restoration and care. This semester we are going to look at the human and biological communities as they exist in the greater San Diego area and create installations meant to encourage healthier community engagement and interaction.
Essential Question: How can we foster greater community interaction and engagement?
Essential Question: How can we foster greater community interaction and engagement?
Environmentalist at Sea
2016/17
Operation: Restoration
Fall 2015
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In this project, we will be using emerging technology and equipment (Drones) to assess the biological fitness of our local Flora communities and work to restore them to healthy balances. We will be developing two concepts (seed dispersal and pollination optimization) that we can present to the community as viable tools in maintaining healthy plant ecologies and robust agricultural production at the end of this project.
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Fly on the Wall
Fall 2015
During this project we will be collecting specimen from the most abundant group of animals (arthropods) from our respective communities to highlight the diversity that exists among their phyla. Students will be learning to collect, identify, categorize and describe insects, arachnids and potentially crustaceans.
