EHP: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Ecomedia Incubator

With Guest Speaker Allison Carruth (Professor of American Studies and Environmental Studies, Princeton University)

This workshop will explore the emergence of ecomedia studies as a cross-cutting subfield of both STS and the environmental humanities by way of a discussion of a recent stream published in the open-access journal Media + Environment on “Modeling the Pacific Ocean”. The seminar will then share some of the work of Princeton’s Blue Lab as a case study in the creative environmental humanities. Cofounded by Allison Carruth and Barron Bixler, Blue Lab is the country's only media production studio located at a research university that focuses on climate and environment storytelling. Since 2021, Blue Lab has built a multidisciplinary team, fostered a network of collaborators and advisors, launched a major public art program and developed five original story projects (three podcasts, a documentary film currently in production and a nonfiction dispatch series about uncanny coastal places). The lab aims to equip scientists and humanists alike with the training and tools to amplify the reach of their vital work beyond academic journals, conferences, monographs and classrooms. The lab’s method is to mobilize environmental research in the service of telling stories that are hyperlocal, aesthetically captivating and geared toward connecting with audiences across some critical cultural divides. With these examples of ecomedia scholarship and creative practice as models, the final part of the workshop will be structured around breakouts in which groups develop the initial ideas—and outline some of the practical challenges and ethical considerations—for an ecomedia project based in California.

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