Creativeecologies.ucsc.edu Website Review

nabil ahmed, remote sensing an*lysis of contamination from grasberg mine, west papua angela melitopolous and angela anderson’s unearthing disaster i & ii, 2013-15 oliver ressler, everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart, his recent series of films from 2016-17.. the center for creative ecologies researches the intersection of art, culture, and environment. the aim is to develop useful arts-led. interdisciplinary research tools to examine how cultural practitioners—filmmakers, new media strategists, photojournalists,. architects, writers, activists, and interdisciplinary theorists—critically address and creatively negotiate environmental. concerns in the local, regional, and global field. these concerns include anthropogenic climate change and global warming, and relate to. factors such as habitat destruction, drought, species extinction, and environmental degradation, in relation to which we ask: how are. creative practitioners imagining alternative narratives that cultivate ecological wellbeing, support a just transition to a post-carbon. future, and regard the nonhuman world as other than an anthropocentric resource for wealth accu*ulation? drawing on such wide-ranging fields. as visual culture and art history, political ecology and economics, anthropology and sociology, earth jurisprudence and new materialism. philosophy, indigenous cosmopolitics and climate justice activism, and insisting on addressing ecology from a justice-oriented framework, the. center energizes the formation of the emerging environmental arts and humanities at uc santa cruz. embedded in the department of history of art and visual culture (havc), the center supports and strengthens its phd program in visual culture, and provides a dynamic space of interdisciplinary thinking that merges undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. it addresses a wide arena of cultural experience, within and beyond artistic practice, including ecological theory, mas* media narratives,