G07 Pollution

Cf.

• Plastic as a substance
• Plastic as a material
• Materiality
• Health, healthy planet
• hygiene, Dirt
• environmental justice
• environmental monitoring and management
• toxic geographies, wasteocene

Consider the concept of pollution as a process. Geological and biological systems introduce many materials, what makes some polluting, which criteria?

Consider relating pollution to ad-hoc and large-scale monitoring and measurement tools. Monitoring of production, lifecycle, distribution, impact on living systems, easy of remediation, ease and costs of replacement, etc.

For example, consider the use of robotics, big data, remote monitoring as well as small tools in design practices. What are the opportunities and sources of innovation?

Marine Plastic

Davies, Thom. ‘Toxic Space and Time: Slow Violence, Necropolitics, and Petrochemical Pollution’. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108, no. 6 (2018): 1537–53. https://doi.org/10/gdqcrv.

Schofield, John, Kayleigh J. Wyles, Sean Doherty, Andy Donnelly, Jen Jones, and Adam Porter. ‘Object Narratives as a Methodology for Mitigating Marine Plastic Pollution: Multidisciplinary Investigations in Galápagos’. Antiquity 94, no. 373 (2020): 228–44. https://doi.org/10/ggmkfb.

Van Cauwenberghe, Lisbeth, Ann Vanreusel, Jan Mees, and Colin R. Janssen. ‘Microplastic Pollution in Deep-Sea Sediments’. Environmental Pollution 182 (2013): 495–99. https://doi.org/10/f5gt8w.

Monitoring

Gabrys, Jennifer. Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Speculation

Hamraie, Aimi. ‘Alterlivability: Speculative Design Fiction and the Urban Good Life in Starhawk’s Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge’. Environmental Humanities 12, no. 2 (2020): 407–30. https://doi.org/10/gm8hkc.

Knutz, Eva, Thomas Markussen, and Poul Rind Christensen. ‘The Role of Fiction in Experiments within Design, Art & Architecture - Towards a New Typology of Design Fiction’. Artifact 3, no. 2 (2014): 8.1-8.13.

References

Liboiron, Max. Pollution Is Colonialism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

Krapivin, Vladimir F., Kōnstantinos Barōtsos, and Vladimir Yu Soldatov. New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science: Applications and Decision-Making. Cham: Springer, 2015.

Armiero, Marco. Wasteocene: Stories from the Global Dump. Cambridge Elements Elements in Environmental Humanities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Davies, Thom. ‘Slow Violence and Toxic Geographies: “Out of Sight” to Whom?’ Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 40, no. 2 (2022): 409–27. https://doi.org/10/gg3q4k.