sustainability

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An investigation into the low salmon return of 2009.

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http://blogs.eciad.ca/elverum/2010/10/04/the-plastic-jam-experience-nov-...

This past summer Duane Elverum was invited by OceanGybe Global Outreach to work with the Algalita Foundation on an ocean plastics research project. He  joined the expedition during the last offshore leg of the OceanGybe’s 3-year circumnavigation. This passage marks Duane's 6th offshore passage across the Pacific Ocean between 2001 and 2010, including landfalls in the South Pacific Polynesian Archipelago, the Cook Islands, Hawaii and Mexico.

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Work and Play, 1992-2005

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http://blogs.eciad.ca/elverum/2010/03/19/what-is-the-basic-societal-miss...

Keynote Address
EduCamp, UBC/OTL
March 18, 2010

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http://blogs.eciad.ca/elverum/2010/03/21/the-future-will-not-be-forecast...

Appetites
AHIS 333 Interdisciplinary Forums
Public lecture and Speaker Series at Emily Carr University of Art & Design
Duane Elverum
March 18, 2010

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Water is a crucial element to our survival. Despite its important role in our lives, we often take it for granted. An ever growing problem associated with our consumption of water is the wasteful use of disposable water bottles. Water wear is a concept in rethinking the use of disposable water bottles by exploring the the ways that we wear water on our bodies.

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A Victoria real estate project. more details to come later

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Specially designed joints to fix and assemble broken toys. This was a co design project between a grade one class at False Creek Elementary School (very close to Granville Island) and Emily Carr University. The goal was to create a solution for how children's toys can have a second and/or multiple lives.

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In a series of drawings, maps and paintings I investigate a language with which to speak of the complexity of our time. The scientific reference of the project title is woven throughout the work where the lens of science is used to view the resonating effects of daily existence and the poetics of scientific theories are explored through the lens of the everyday.