Feeling Climate Uncertainty
Spring 2021
FEELING CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY will assess, consider, and address the complex emotions arising from human-driven climate disruption. The climate crisis generates multiple complex and sometimes contradictory emotions including ecological denial, guilt, frustration, rage, hope, anxiety, and many more. This Lab will work with the realities of this emotional landscape, to begin to realize the significant individual and ultimately socio-cultural changes asked of us.
Information Overload
Spring 2021
This lab will focus on the present moment of too much information, with much of it being false, by looking at the history of information overload and then analyzing the problems and solutions of a crush of information today.
ArtScience: COVID Response
Spring 2021
ArtScience: COVID Response investigates the critical skillsets and mindsets required to navigate crisis, build resilience, and create the future. Although we cannot predict what future we will encounter, we have all recently experienced a global crisis that is dramatically forcing a new future upon us – the COVID pandemic. Together, students and faculty will examine what disciplinary skill- and mind-sets are most valuable to shape our future given the challenges COVID has exacerbated within our communities.
Sustainable Fashion
Spring 2021
As we continue to purchase more clothes and the fashion industry continues to expand each year, what effect does it have on the environment and on textile workers? Through the investigation of case studies, current industry journals, webinars, and discussions with industry experts and workers, we will propose solutions for creating more sustainable and equitable fashion supply chains and consumer practices.
Facing Immigration
Spring 2021
For the past decade, immigration has been a major, controversial force shaping political developments across North America, Europe, and Latin America. Why? The FACING IMMIGRATION Lab, repeating after a very successful run in Spring 2019, will investigate the social, political and historical questions raised by immigration through art and different forms of artistic production that will be shared on campus and in the larger community.
HUL 250: Intro to Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Spring 2021
The main purpose of the new INTRO TO INTERDISCIPLINARY INQUIRY Lab is to introduce undergraduate students to transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary academic inquiry across disparate disciplines so that they may begin to tackle the grand social challenges facing the world today. The Lab is part of the new Technological Leadership major launching in the Fall and will be offered every Spring.
