Designers have a key role to play in how humans comprehend, engage with and effect the natural environment around us. We rely on science to give us hard data about how the natural world operates and how humans effect the environment. And artists provide us with metaphoric and emotional avenues for engaging with our physical environment. This studio aims to explore the common ground between artistic, scientific and design related engagements with the natural world. We will work with a particular site in the Bay Area that is rich with natural and human histories and interrogate science based approaches to engage with and understand the natural environment. Each student will design and develop an instrument, approach or intervention to shape and deepen our engagement with the natural and human environment based on in-depth research during the studio.

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