Art and Climate Change

4 credits · Undergraduate

What can art, architecture, sustainable design, urban planning, cinema, and performance practices contribute to current debates on environmental justice and climate change? Taking the visual politics of climate change as a starting point, we will build toward understanding the global climate crisis through studying histories of (neo)colonialism, anthropocentrism, and natural resource extraction from the 1500s to the present while developing critical interdisciplinary alternatives for the future through creative hands-on workshops and field trips to museums, botanical gardens, and the city of Berkeley. As part of the Pathways program, the course serves as a hub for a course cluster on “Art, Environment, and Economic Policy.”