The Port of New Orleans: Culture and Climate Change

New Orleans is decades ahead of any other U.S. city with respect to climate change. The city’s culture embodies exuberance and improvisation, and inspires confidence, openness, and collaboration. These qualities, married with scientific inquiry, may be a strategy for the city’s survival. Visiting scholars and artists show how cooperation between cultural and scientific communities can provide valuable, sustainable strategies. The class will spend Spring Break in New Orleans visiting sites of artistic and scientific intervention. Students will create models, media, and other creative works in response to research data.

Faculty

Sections

C01

Wednesdays, 12:30 - 4:20 pm

Instructor(s)

Jeff Whetstone