Eccentric Interfaces, Environmental Interventions is a workshop focusing on creative practices that address our interconnectedness with environmental systems and other lifeforms.

We will explore environmental data and its performance, understanding data-driven practices as being less about sensors, and more about structuring participation and experiences that foster localized environmental literacy and stewardship.

We will discuss ecocritical texts and artworks, experimenting with open source platforms for data collection and performance. Studio exercises will support the development of original creative works.

Edwardo Navarro (2016) We who spin around you.

Lectures & Workshops

• Introductions
• The politics and poetics of coexistence
• Sensing
• Rethinking interfaces
• Design Strategies
• Environmental Traces workshop
• Sensing workshop
• Visualization workshop
• Pcomp workshop

Readings

• Purdy, Jedediah. Anthropocene Fever. 2015.
• Stone, Christopher D. Should Trees Have Standing--Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects. 1972.
• Morton, Timothy. The Ecological Thought. Harvard University Press, 2010. Chapter 1.
• Muecke, Stephen. What the cassowary does not need to know. Australian Humanities Review, 2006.
• Bratton, Benjamin H. and Jeremijenko, Natalie. Suspicious images, latent interfaces. Architectural League of New York, 2008.
• Ursula, Franklin. Real World of Technology. (1989). Chapter 1

Class repository.
Class shared doc.