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Heidi Quante is an interdisciplinary artist who has been designing environmental and human rights public engagement initiatives since 2003. [1] [2] [3]
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Heidi Quante is an interdisciplinary artist who has been designing environmental and human rights public engagement initiatives since 2003. [1] [2] [3]
Quante attended the University of California, Berkeley and received a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology and a Bachelor of Science in Ecology.[ citation needed ]
Her artwork is divided into two practices. One is personal, exploring her emotional and physical interactions with the changing environment. The other consciously engages the public in participatory artworks ranging in size from one on one personal interactions to large scale global participatory artworks. [4] Her artworks often address social and environmental issues like climate change.
Quante founded Creative Catalysts in 2013. Creative Catalysts collaborates with experts from diverse disciplines: art, science, community organizing and multimedia to design new initiatives for social challenges including climate change. Their initiatives seek to raise awareness, inspire dialogue and spark action on pressing social and environmental issues.
Quante is the co director of High Water Line which supports individuals and communities at various levels to help them realize this innovative way of visualizing climate change. [5]
Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Potrč's interdisciplinary practice includes on-site projects, research, architectural case studies, and drawings. Her work documents and interprets contemporary architectural practices and the ways people live together. She is especially interested in social architecture and how communities and governments can work together to make stronger, more resilient cities. In later projects, she has also focused on the relationship between human society and nature, and advocated for the rights of nature.
Protest art is the creative works produced by activists and social movements. It is a traditional means of communication, utilized by a cross section of collectives and the state to inform and persuade citizens. Protest art helps arouse base emotions in their audiences, and in return may increase the climate of tension and create new opportunities to dissent. Since art, unlike other forms of dissent, takes few financial resources, less financially able groups and parties can rely more on performance art and street art as an affordable tactic.
The Earth Institute is a research institute at Columbia University created in 1995 for addressing complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with a focus on sustainable development. With an interdisciplinary approach, this includes research in climate change, geology, global health, economics, management, agriculture, ecosystems, urbanization, energy, hazards, and water. The Earth Institute's activities are guided by the idea that science and technological tools that already exist could be applied to greatly improve conditions for the world's poor, while preserving the natural systems that support life on Earth.
Environmental art is a range of artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more recent ecological and politically motivated types of works. Environmental art has evolved away from formal concerns, for example monumental earthworks using earth as a sculptural material, towards a deeper relationship to systems, processes and phenomena in relationship to social concerns. Integrated social and ecological approaches developed as an ethical, restorative stance emerged in the 1990s. Over the past ten years environmental art has become a focal point of exhibitions around the world as the social and cultural aspects of climate change come to the forefront.
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Participatory art is an approach to making art which engages public participation in the creative process, letting them become co-authors, editors, and observers of the work. This type of art is incomplete without viewers' physical interaction. It intends to challenge the dominant form of making art in the West, in which a small class of professional artists make the art while the public takes on the role of passive observer or consumer, i.e., buying the work of the professionals in the marketplace. Commended works by advocates who popularized participatory art include Augusto Boal in his Theater of the Oppressed, as well as Allan Kaprow in happenings.
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