Learn about changes impacting our natural environment and ecology and discover how collaborations between the arts and sciences can lead to creative, innovative, sustainable and restorative responses.
This unit invites students from across the arts, sciences, and other disciplines to consider the earth's ecology and the current impacts of climate change. Students are asked to respond to, communicate and advocate on issues arising from changes in our climate and environment through a creative lens.
Climate change requires creative responses that address shared issues. This unit engages students to tackle one specific local issue, by bringing together creative practitioners and environmentalists to raise awareness of positive responses to ecological issues and climate change.
The course gives focus to the environmental impacts currently experienced in the north of Australia alongside areas in Southeast Asia, with engagement from Indigenous cultural experts responding to impacts of climate change in the tropical and arid zones of the Northern Territory. If the polar bear stranded on an ice floe represents climate change in Europe, what images advocate for climate action in the arid and tropical zones of northern Australia?
The course will extend the understanding that climate change is a cultural issue alongside a scientific issue, and that creative practitioners in collaboration with environmental scientists can develop communication strategies to reframe the interlocking social, cultural, and environmental crisis and envision a more ecological and sound future.
