Week 1
Day 1 Exercise: What do we individually and collectively already know about ecologies, ecosystems and ecological art and design? Ecology ‘ the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. Ecosystem ‘ a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment’ Ecological art and design is looking at principles applied that promote or help create awareness or change to positive change in ecologies How are their concerns different from dominant 19th and 20th frameworks of industrial production and consumption? Humans have physically seen the dramatic impacts within the environment due to evidence of gaps and damages in ecologies and Eocene’s. For example the number of endangered species has heavily increased from the turn of the 19 th to the 20 th century. We are also faced with the massive issue of wastage and the limitations of natural resources such as clean