Collective Currents: Exploring Sustainability through a Collaborative and Interactive Installation

Leonardo ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Erik Brunvand ◽  
Wendy Wischer
Keyword(s):  
Water Rights ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Interactive Art ◽  
Interactive Installation ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Water Issues

Water issues are especially meaningful in the Western United States, with a long history of struggle, controversy, and politics. Achieving desirable outcomes in terms of water quality and water rights requires collaboration and compromise at all points in the discussion. Collective Currents is an interactive art installation, created in a collaboration with a computer engineer and a multi-media artist, to explore the idea of cooperative experience in both literal and conceptual ways and create a unique environment that references our ability to understand and solve environmental issues, specifically clean water, through collaboration.

scholarly journals FeelOpo

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Isabel Carvalho ◽  
José Bidarra ◽  
Carla Porto
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Interactive Art ◽  
Interactive Installation ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
The North ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Different Levels

FeelOpo is an interactive art installation that allows contact with fragments of the immaterial heritage of the Oporto City in the North of Portugal. Through location-based storytelling of the living city, this interactive installation allows visitors to explore, at different levels, several typical characteristics of this city, addressing aspects of cultural identity based on contrasting images and videos. The visitors feel and explore visual stories of the live city, through a process of appropriation and articulation of these narratives, generating an expansion of this intangible heritage.

scholarly journals Assessing Interdisciplinary Learning and Student Activism in a Water Issues Course

2014 ◽  
pp. 111-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Juris ◽  
Anja Mueller ◽  
Cathy Willermet ◽  
Eron Drake ◽  
Samik Upadhaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Treatment ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Interdisciplinary Learning ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Interdisciplinary Course ◽  
Water Issues ◽  
Global Water

In response to a request from a campus student organization, faculty from three fields came together to develop and teach an integrated interdisciplinary course on water issues and social activism. This course, “Water as Life, Death, and Power”, brought together issues from the fields of anthropology, biology and chemistry to explore water rights, access to clean water, and water treatment methods. Students enrolled in the course developed interdisciplinary projects related to a variety of local and global water issues to present real-world solutions at a university-wide student research showcase. This article reports the assessment outcomes of the course, measuring changes in both interdisciplinary learning and levels of student activism.

Michael Clegg (1933–1995): from naturalist to environmental correspondent in the multi-media age

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Scientific Background ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multi Media

The coverage of natural history in British newspapers has evolved from a “Nature notes” format – usually a regular column submitted by a local amateur naturalist – to professional, larger-format, presentations by dedicated environmental correspondents. Not all such environmental correspondents, however, have natural-history expertise or even a scientific background. Yorkshire's Michael Clegg was a man who had a life-long love of nature wedded to a desire to communicate that passion. He moved from a secure position in the museum world (with a journalistic sideline) to become a freelance newspaper journalist and (subsequently) commentator on radio and television dealing with, and campaigning on, environmental issues full-time. As such, he exemplified the transition in how natural history coverage in the media evolved in the final decades of the twentieth century reflecting modern concerns about biodiversity, conservation, pollution and sustainable development.

The VideoMob Interactive Art Installation Connecting Strangers through Inclusive Digital Crowds

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Grenader ◽  
Danilo Gasques Rodrigues ◽  
Fernando Nos ◽  
Nadir Weibel
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Art ◽  
Art Installation

scholarly journals Roles of the Water Court and the State Engineer for water administration in Colorado

Water Policy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 837-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. McIntyre ◽  
David C. Mays
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
The Us ◽  
State Engineer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Water Administration ◽  
Civil Courts

Colorado manages water using an administrative structure that is unique among the United States following the doctrine of prior appropriation: Water rights are adjudicated not by the State Engineer, but by Water Courts – separate from and operating in parallel to the criminal and civil courts – established specifically for this purpose. Fundamental to this system is the notion that water rights are property, with consequent protections under the US Constitution, but with the significant constraint that changes in water rights must not injure other water rights, either more senior or more junior. Population growth and climate change will certainly trigger changes in water administration, to be guided by the recent Colorado Water Plan. To provide the foundation necessary to appreciate these changes, this paper reviews the history of Colorado water administration and summarizes the complementary roles of the Water Courts and the State Engineer. Understanding water administration in Colorado depends on a firm grasp on how these two branches of state government formulate and implement water policy.

Historians, Historical Analysis, and International Water Politics

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Reuss
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Water History ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Means ◽  
International Water ◽  
Sound Policy ◽  
Water Issues

The resolution of international water disputes demands historical analysis. Too often, this analysis is not supplied by professional historians but by policymakers, engineers, and others who may lack the required knowledge and skills. The result inhibits rather than advances sound policy. Fortunately, historians are obtaining increased appreciation for what they bring to the conference table. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which the United States recently rejoined, is attempting to further sound historical study; and the recently formed International Water History Association (IWHA) provides a forum to focus on the history of global water issues. These developments afford historians new and important means to make a difference in resolving some of the most pressing international resource issues.

scholarly journals The imaginary worlds of sustainability: observations from an interactive art installation

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Bendor ◽  
David Maggs ◽  
Rachel Peake ◽  
John Robinson ◽  
Steve Williams
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Art ◽  
Art Installation

Accountability, asbestos and indigenous rights: The case of Baryulgil

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee C. Moerman ◽  
Sandra L. van der Laan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New South ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Corporate Accountability ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Corporate Entity ◽  
History Of

This paper documents the history of paternalistic state policies and the effects of asbestos mining on the Indigenous community at Baryulgil in northern New South Wales. Despite the lack of profitability, the asbestos operations continued for over 30 years leaving a legacy of asbestos-related health and environmental issues. The shift of responsibility for Indigenous welfare from the State to a corporate entity is evidenced in this historical study using the lens of historical institutionalism. The Baryulgil case is instructive in a number of ways: it demonstrates the subtlety with which human rights abuses can occur in an environment where paternalistic attitudes towards Indigenous peoples prevail; it demonstrates the clash between pursuit of corporate objectives and human rights; and finally it demonstrates the lack of corporate accountability in the asbestos industry.

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