This sketch proposes to use the project as an educational module for kids "to learn alternative practices for producing food, building residences, coexisting with theenvironment and with the rest of the community in a sustainable and reciprocal manner". I think it would be a great idea, as many schools have already been participating in promotion of sustainable lifestyle.
I think documentary would be great to capture broader audience and to facilitate contemplation on the relation between modern/utopia lifestyle.
As a product that is meant to represent an output of decolonized research the text itself resists conducting research on indigenous communities through a colonial gaze such as drawing on concepts of inclusive nation-state building, Neoliberalism, and Eurocentric Marxism. The text also includes mixed english, spanish, and Mayan words too. The first chapter, in the traditional format, gives historical backdrop and major events leading up to the problem space.
I'm thinking about working on regulatory environmental health science in the United States as a toxic place. I'm also planning to work with Mike, Katie Cox and Lindsey Poirer on a project about California's toxic air -- and how it has become visible in particular ways.
George has recommended Claire Bishop, Artificial Hells Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, for our thinking about installation ethnography.
Lambert Heller, Ronald The & Sönke Bartling Dynamic Publication Formats and Collaborative Authoring
Hoffman, Danny. Toxicity. Somatosphere
My initial interest in the project sprang from both my multimodal course with Roxanne Varzi and participation in the Anthropocene field camp in New Orleans. Visiting New Orleans enabled me to open my mind to multiple possibilities for thinking through my problem space, particularly the connection made between the plantation and power plant as mutually informing, racialized, heavily place-based toxic modes of production and exploitation.
I have background in creative writing, including short stories, theater skits, and especially poetry/spoken word (I’ve published some as well as presented it). In addition, I am an active photographer and try to implement the use of photography in whatever fieldwork I am doing. In both Houston and New York City, I took photographs to get a sense of space/place.
I intend on focusing on the knowledge economy as a place, particularly as it is manifested in two (maybe three) “global” cities: Houston, New York City, and potentially Los Angeles. I am particularly interested in looking at universities as sites of both knowledge production and toxicity, and the effects that they have on the city neighborhoods surrounding them.
