INFO 415: Environmental Interventions

This course explores the environment as a scene and technology design as a tool for improvisational political action. We will trace the work of artists, designers, and programmers who are expanding the role of information technology (IT) from a modernist tool for representing and controlling the environment to an open-ended medium for situated consciousness-raising, networking, and reflecting about the environment. We will analyze the cultural and political issues involved with the environment and their potential for IT-based interventions using a variety of on-the-ground strategies. The course will include a collaborative group project leveraging students from different disciplinary backgrounds to develop an environmental intervention of their own. No experience with computers or other technologies is required.

Offered: Fall 2007 only

Prerequisites:

Grade Options: let or S/U

Credit Hours: 4 credit.

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