Humans are unique in our ability to analyze our own position in the world. This special power comes with its limits, like our denial of our own demise. However, through exercising our own awareness and sense of agency, I believe it is possible to overcome this psychological limitation. Throughout history, art has been a key method for grappling with big-ticket… Read more »
https://futureofseattle.weebly.com/ My group chose to use pictures as the central media because they invite several different perspectives. While we provide supplementary material on the website, the viewer immediately forms an opinion or thought on the subject once they view the photos. If the information we provided does not necessarily stir the reader, maybe their interpretation of the photo will. As… Read more »
Throughout this quarter, my peers and I were invited to complete an action project. This project has three key goals: to create and implement a response to the course material, create an offering to the larger community, and to integrate a reflective component in both inception and implementation. My group’s final product after extensive deliberation is a website about climate… Read more »
For our action project, my two groupmates and I organized a yoga and dance party at the University of Washington. The idea was to teach people about the Anthropocene in a creative way that wouldn’t be overwhelming and paralyzing for participants. We would bring a yoga instructor to help us incorporate the body as well as contemplative practices for an… Read more »
My main takeaway from our class is that I have a lot left to learn. I was waiting throughout this course to hit a point of understanding, an epiphany that would reveal to me just what it meant to be a human in the Anthropocene. What do we have to do to reverse this? What responsibilities have we incurred and… Read more »
Be it the vexing half-hour chirrup of the old wall clock, Professor Litfin’s pager beep, or perhaps the sighs of the student beside you, it’s hard not to be cognizant of time’s passage. In the classroom, we are beholden to this ever-present tick-tock. We’re getting older by the second, damnit! Even closing our eyes, as we do in contemplation, does… Read more »
The action project was difficult to plan and execute given the time constraints of a quarter system. That said, I am very proud of the job our group was able to do and the message we were able to convey with regards to increasing political engagement among our peers at the University of Washington. Once I had time to reflect… Read more »
The group action project, encouraging us to embrace agency in the Anthropocene, demanded we engage the greater community in some fashion. While free to shape the project as we pleased, we were asked to incorporate contemplative practices into our work. In groups of about four people, we had nearly a month to complete our projects. For the assignment, I worked… Read more »
My groups action project has turned out to be a far more complicated and insightful experience that that of what we originally anticipated. From the beginning Tova, Kate, Ryan, and I knew that we wanted the underlying theme of our project to be centered on waste production and management. Some issues of the Anthropocene are easy to push out of your… Read more »
As I contemplated what it means and will mean to be a person in the Anthropocene, I decided that the perfect representation of hope and survival would be to decide what we will be eating in the next 50-75 years. Below, I created a recipe using sustainable, nutritious, and delicious ingredients that embody the human spirit of overcoming adversity with… Read more »
