How do contemporary visual practices impact national and international activism around climate crisis? This course explores how artists, designers, architects and other cultural producers engage with the political and social challenges of “representing” climate change.  We will draw from a wide range of practices and strategies, as well as engage with local and national environmental activist groups in order to learn from their sustained political efforts. We will study some of the science behind climate change, as well as how the science is represented in the media to the general public. Working at the intersection of visual culture analysis and activism, students will be invited to experiment with different forms of narrative and communication in order to address the urgent ecological issues we currently face. This course is both part of a CCA  initiative on “Democracy” leading up to the 2020 US elections, as well as the Ecological Practices Minor.VISST-300 seminars continue developing students' visual analysis and research skills while providing students the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the specific topic/theme. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created. This course cannot fulfill the VISST-200 requirement.

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