New Natures and Urban Wilds

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

This seminar interrogates ideas of nature on an urbanizing planet under the intertwined crises of climate change (global heating) and biodiversity loss (extinction). This transdisciplinary course uses visual spatial analyses, scientific reasoning, critical reflection, and artistic media to engage diverse perspectives on wilderness and wild-ness. Seminar contributions encourage un-learning colonial myths of wilderness through exploring intersectional and intercultural epistemologies of nature and humans' primordial connection to other species. In contemplating what it means to be wild in the Anthropocene, the seminar examines concepts of co-existence, entanglement, and kinship and their implications for more-than-human design applications.