Environmental Futures Platform: Speculations Across Art + Science

Victoria Nelson Author

04/05/2021 Added

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This presentation talks about the potential future applications of integrating arts and sciences to create creative solutions to further human and nonhuman interactions.

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[00:00:01.350]Hello,
[00:00:02.100]I'm Victoria Nelson and I'm presenting over story worlds in speculate
[00:00:07.470]design lab. And this is through the college of emerging media.
[00:00:14.840]A little bit about me. I'm a junior mechanical engineering student.
[00:00:19.040]I've experienced with programming and robotics,
[00:00:22.010]and I'm interested in design and film and how those interact with engineering
[00:00:26.480]and technology.
[00:00:31.640]My advising professor is Ash Smith.
[00:00:34.880]She's the assistant assistant professor for emerging media arts.
[00:00:39.800]Um,
[00:00:40.010]a few of the things she does is she's a researcher and artist and a storyteller,
[00:00:44.630]and she used to previously work at the university of California at San Diego.
[00:00:51.680]So a little bit about this lab.
[00:00:53.870]This lab will imagine and build future worlds.
[00:00:57.470]That can be an incubator for creativity and innovative research.
[00:01:02.450]This will be accomplished by using interdis interdisciplinary strategies
[00:01:07.580]that explore how storytelling fiction play futuring
[00:01:12.230]world-building and social re-imaging can shape reality.
[00:01:16.190]There is a focus on real ecosystems and emergent ecologies as sites of
[00:01:20.690]investigation and innovation.
[00:01:27.140]Some of the research questions we will be looking at to this lab are how can
[00:01:31.790]emerging technologies and storytellings shape new kinds of reality?
[00:01:37.640]How can the rural and urban divide be broken down and to be configured?
[00:01:42.740]What are the preferable futures for Nebraska in 2050?
[00:01:46.820]How can data and coding be used as another form of storytelling?
[00:01:51.470]How can machine learning and robotics enhance live performance in CLA in
[00:01:56.000]collaboration with a human and how can we prototype speculative
[00:02:00.650]designs like an experimental robotics windmill to be,
[00:02:04.580]get more blue sky thinking and solve wicked problems?
[00:02:09.980]So the specific lab project that I'm working on is the environmental futures
[00:02:14.450]platform, speculations across art and science.
[00:02:18.290]The goal of this program is to integrate art and science knowledge to create
[00:02:22.760]immersive art projects,
[00:02:23.990]to further creative learning this platform we're focused
[00:02:28.790]on and foster innovation, creativity,
[00:02:32.060]and imagination that utilizes both human and non-human collaboration
[00:02:36.920]for reasonable agency surrounding water, food,
[00:02:40.610]earth networks, infrastructure, and the built environment. Um,
[00:02:45.410]some of the technologies and stuff that you can think of, um,
[00:02:49.310]are like augmented reality, drones and robots used for crops.
[00:02:58.640]Some of the research I have.
[00:03:00.130]Focused on is putting together a database of current and potential
[00:03:05.050]consulting experts for the design lab.
[00:03:09.040]I've also created transcripts of interviews with consulting experts over
[00:03:13.270]possible technical technological advances for integrating technology,
[00:03:17.710]human animals and or plants.
[00:03:21.160]And then I've also experimented with the unity programming and augmented reality
[00:03:25.840]software to have to gain a fundamental understanding for
[00:03:30.400]potential lab solutions. Along with this,
[00:03:33.190]I've helped dupe research into, um,
[00:03:37.210]creative design and idea generating for
[00:03:41.980]multiple different world buildings.
[00:03:47.160]And then, uh,
[00:03:48.690]since this is the first year of the story worlds and
[00:03:53.190]speculative design lab, um,
[00:03:56.040]and it's still in development and creation,
[00:03:58.530]there are a lot more projects interactions. The lab plans to explore. Um,
[00:04:03.450]there will be further continuation with interviewing experts on advancing
[00:04:07.470]technology and researching future applications for interactive technology with
[00:04:12.060]humans.
[00:04:17.940]Thank you for listening to my presentation.

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