An Audience to Environmental Change: Research-Based Performance Workshop (ITALIC 105)

4 credits · Undergraduate

Working with the award-winning theater artist Abigail Browde, students will collaborate on shaping found texts into a co-created performance, which aims to address "Shifting Baseline Syndrome." Named by the marine biologist Daniel Pauly, the "syndrome" refers to humans' tendency to accept current, degraded environmental conditions as normal. Crucially, though, Pauly also identified a way to combat the syndrome: intergenerational storytelling. This course aims to make good on Pauly's promise by uncovering descriptions of past environments and bringing them to life through participatory performances on campus.