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Tag Archives: art
Chicago Program Takes Fridge Recycling to the Streets
Midwest Energy News recently mentioned a quirky art project sponsored by Commonwealth Edison, an Illinois electric utility. To promote its refrigerator recycling program, the utility paid artists to take its message to the streets by recycling refrigerators. The reworked refrigerators … Continue reading
Posted in art, cities, energy, environment
Tagged art, Chicago, Commonwealth Edison, environmental, green, Midwest Energy News, recycling, refrigerators
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Turning Electronics into Sculptures
Electronic waste often ends up in places where it isn’t appreciated. Sometimes, it ends its life cycle in fiery pits in China and other countries. MIT students have tracked urban trash and found that e-waste ends up in all kinds … Continue reading
Posted in art, creativity, environment, recycling
Tagged art, e-waste, electronics, recycling, reuse, sculptures
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Decorating the Spaces between Bricks
It takes an artistic eye to look at an ordinary wall and see potential spaces for art in the fissures between the bricks. Some artists see the blank spaces between objects as zones where new ideas can emerge. M.C. Escher used … Continue reading
Posted in art, cities, creativity
Tagged art, bricks, city art, dispatchers, legos, monuments, street art, temporary art, urban art
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Saving Sea Turtles from a Plastic Dinner
Leatherback sea turtles are tough, but waterborne plastic can kill them. See Turtles, a nonprofit organization, says “hundreds of thousands of sea turtles… die each year from ocean pollution and ingestion or entanglement in marine debris.” Many of these pieces … Continue reading
Posted in art, DIY, environment
Tagged art, boston, environment, green, leatherback sea turtles, recycled art, recycling, Revere, turtles
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Visual Communication: Not Just Smoke and Mirrors
John Maeda spoke at the MIT Media Lab this week about how art can energize science, technology, engineering and math. The event posting says “artists and designers make information more understandable, products more desirable, and new invention possible.” Even though … Continue reading
Posted in art, creativity, environment, public health, science communication
Tagged art, education, journalism, multimedia, science
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Environmental Justice at the National Museum of Mexican Art
Several years ago, someone asked me to tell a group how I became interested in environmental issues. I said I grew up in Chicago, where I could smell steel mill pollution and see signs of water contamination. When people talk … Continue reading
Posted in art, economy, environment, public health, work experience
Tagged art, Chicago, Chicano, environmental justice, health, pollution
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A Picture Is Worth… An Audience
It’s easy to assume other people learn the same way we do. If we are used to explaining ideas verbally, we may forget the value of pictures. Studying learning styles is valuable for people who are interested in mass communication. … Continue reading
Posted in environment, media framing, science
Tagged art, climate change, design, environment, media
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Design and Engineering: Similar Skills with Different Reputations
Although there are real differences between art and engineering, the social gap between them may be due to misconceptions. The impersonal and equation-oriented image of engineering doesn’t reflect what engineers do at work. As I commented on an article in The … Continue reading
Posted in art, creativity, manufacturing, science, work experience
Tagged art, design, engineering, science, women in science
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Remixed Jewelry
After writing the post “Subverting the Plastic Bottle” a few months ago, I began thinking about recycled art. I left the art show at the Peabody Essex Museum with an idea: if I did start making art again, I would … Continue reading
Subverting the plastic bottle
Trash Menagerie, a show in the Art and Nature Center at the Peabody Essex Museum, uses recycled materials to tell the story of our view of objects and our choices about what is disposable. If we saw these objects differently, … Continue reading
Posted in art, DIY, environment
Tagged art, museums, plastic, recycled art, recycling, reuse
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