Beyond Boundaries

Abstract

In today's Anthropocene era, human-and-climate induced sustainability challenges threaten the livelihood of vulnerable communities across the planet. To mitigate the risks of sustainability threats, data-and-theory driven scientific models, artistic practices, and environment designs play a critical role. However, these methods alone fail to reach a broader audience and translate into public discourse for participatory collective action. In this paper, we present Beyond Boundaries, a renaissance that re-envisions the relationship between ecological arts and computational thinking to contextualize threats to sustainability at regional and global scales. We establish an integrated framework combining Earth remote sensing satellite time-series, half a decade of ecological arts, and a public exhibition to curate the symbiotic relationship between arts and science. Beyond Boundaries sheds new light on how synergistic associations among disciplines can inspire scientific inquiry, artistic imaginations, and civic engagement-and-discourse for sustainability.

Okanagan Waterways Past, Present and Future: Approaching Sustainability through Immersive Museum Exhibition

“…The meaningmaking processes layered within the exhibit are amplified with immersive and sensual media communication strategies. The development of the Waterways exhibit demonstrates how immersive media can express collaborative action and how the community engagement process plays out in the design of the exhibition to enable a reciprocal relationship of exchange, engagement and mutual benefit for the community [27][28][29].…”

“…Thus, the collaborative design process contributed to crosscultural sharing enabled by algorithms and aesthetics framework uniquely crafted from the community engagement processes. The development of the Waterways media exhibit demonstrates how computationally driven media art and the fields of sustainability have a reciprocal relationship of exchange, engagement and mutual benefit [27][28][29]. Concurrently, communities and those individuals have access to the techniques and ways of understanding the world that bring value through developing new modes of public engagement.…”