Shoutao Wu - Climate Justice, Art and Design, and Decolonial Geography | How Different Disciplinary Positions Collide, Negotiate, and Converge in a Participatory Mapping Workshop
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Shoutao Wu (Vincent), MFA candidate in Design for Responsible Innovation, will present his public lecture, “Climate Justice, Art and Design, and Decolonial Geography | How Different Disciplinary Positions Collide, Negotiate, and Converge in a Participatory Mapping Workshop” on Friday, April 24, from 12 PM to 1 PM, at Room 340 the in Art and Design Building.
In this public lecture, Shoutao introduces and reflects on his ongoing Master’s research on environmental neocolonialism in carbon offsetting, epistemological biases in climate knowledge production, and pluriversal climate justice through participatory mapping.
Drawing from his early experience developing research methods and methodologies, his navigation through contrasting conference experiences, and his recent academic achievements from this project, this talk seeks to confront the ongoing disciplinary positionality tensions he and many other inter-, cross-, or multi-disciplinary researchers might encounter.
Situated at the intersection of climate change research, decolonial scholarship, and art and design, Shoutao proposes that discomfort/comfort within disciplinary in-betweenness, vagueness, and blurred boundaries can be generative for pluriversal thinking and imagination of alternative futures.