HUMN 307 SU01: Environmental Ethics
Mounting concerns about a variety of environmental issues, from pollution to global warming to the extinction of species, have begun to inform the practices in art, design and media. Those concerns imply forms of action being taken about those issues. But what ethical assumptions underlie various actions. Is it a concern for human well-being? For animals? For all life? Or, even more broadly, for ecosystems? In other words, which things count ethically? The primary goal of this course is to prepare students to understand and to critically evaluate various ethical perspectives on human beings' interactions with nature and these perspectives' applications to environmental issues. An important secondary goal is to provide students with tools to integrate those perspectives into their practice as cultural workers.
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LatinX Paraguayan-Canadian Mestiza (mixed race Indigenous Guarani-Spanish) architect, designer, researcher, and educator with extensive professional multidisciplinary practice in South America and Canada. Their work stands at the intersection of systems thinking, service design and climate action, embodying a commitment to sustainable and inclusive solutions.With special focus on land-based design, social innovation and sustainability their work in industry includes architectural projects and a specialization in exhibit design, experiential design, visual communication-information design, placemaking, architectural urban signage and wayfinding programs for airports and transportation systems. Their current research is supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) with a doctoral fellowship, and it focuses on integrating emergent and re-emergent technologies into design practice and pedagogy to promote sustainable and equitable futures.Pat is a member of the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability network (DESIS); the Design Justice Network; the American Computing Association (ACM); The Native American Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA); The Latin American Studies Association (LASA), among other professional networks. They teach courses in Design and Critical Studies at Emily Carr University; Pat has a Master in Interdisciplinary Design from ECU and they are currently a PhD candidate in Design and Social Context at RMIT University.
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May 7-Jun 22 13:00:00-15:50:00 |
T TH | C3255 | MAIN |