Campification
As our natural environment faces diverse challenges to its well-being, Campification will serve as an opportunity for students to engage the scientific, economic, political and social systems that scaffold our relationships with the natural world. As a team, we will explore the degrees of access, understanding and interaction that humans have with nature, as well as how these levels of contact can impact regard for preserving, or exploiting, natural spaces and the resources found within them.
At the outset of this project, our students will explore ideas of ‘nature’ and identify issues facing the natural world. Through citizen science, photography, writing and time outdoors they will generate art dealing with potential impacts of these challenges and compile it in a publication that will be exhibited for our community. With these impacts in mind, our students will develop design and fabrication skills that work to actively promote human interaction with nature. This work will include creating personal camping equipment, and will culminate in the collaborative design and construction of a custom pop-up truck camper.