About Sea Studio
California Institute of the Arts /
Creating Ecolibrium Studio / Shannon Scrofano, Faculty /
Pando Days Project 2022
Sea Studio brings together artists and designers to look imaginatively at the crisis under the surface, through the lenses of aquaculture, bio-materials, pollution, habitat loss and biodiversity, as well as exploring the ocean’s role in water and carbon cycles. In dialogue with scientists and leading ocean researchers, students are designing mobile, interactive learning installations and experiences illuminating the ocean’s underimagined role in planetary health.
Scientists estimate that 50-80% of the oxygen produced on Earth comes from the oceans. Oceans drive the climate of the planet and influence everything fro our food supply to our air quality. The oceans have absorbed 90% of the warming that has occurred in recent decades due to the human-accelerated increase in greenhouse gases, and the top few meters of the ocean store as much heat as the Earth’s entire atmosphere.
Sea Studio takes an interdisciplinary approach to addressing the critical state of the oceans and creating kinship with this vast blue world, holding sustained space for the arts to create engaging translations of the science, and to consistently support colleagues and communities working on the frontlines of climate, justice, and solutions with the oceans front of mind.
Less than 5% of countries mandate educational curriculum about the oceans, resulting in a serious ocean literacy deficit. The word “ocean” is in the Green New Deal only one time. Despite 40% of the global population living in coastal communities, the oceans are too often an afterthought. We need to equip people to change the conversation around the importance of ocean health in their families, circles, and communities.
Special Thanks
To the Pando Team - Doug, Lyn, Eugene and Betsy
To our partners at the Port of Los Angeles, especially Jenny Krusoe, Terry Tamminen, and Robin Aube
To the CalArts Center for New Performance for supporting this partnership and the XDP Program for supporting the course
To our class guests Dr. Janet Kubler from CSUN and the California Seaweed Festival; Erica Gies, Author of Water is Wise; Sue Butler, the Harvard Divinity School’s Visiting Climate and Morality Scholar, Marcus Miessen for his cheerleading, and to friends at Parley.tv for their great online materials
Contributing Artists
MICHELLE FAN
California Institute of the Arts /
Creating Ecolibrium Studio / Shannon Scrofano, Faculty /
Pando Days Project 2022
Sea Studio brings together artists and designers to look imaginatively at the crisis under the surface, through the lenses of aquaculture, bio-materials, pollution, habitat loss and biodiversity, as well as exploring the ocean’s role in water and carbon cycles. In dialogue with scientists and leading ocean researchers, students are designing mobile, interactive learning installations and experiences illuminating the ocean’s underimagined role in planetary health.
Scientists estimate that 50-80% of the oxygen produced on Earth comes from the oceans. Oceans drive the climate of the planet and influence everything fro our food supply to our air quality. The oceans have absorbed 90% of the warming that has occurred in recent decades due to the human-accelerated increase in greenhouse gases, and the top few meters of the ocean store as much heat as the Earth’s entire atmosphere.
Sea Studio takes an interdisciplinary approach to addressing the critical state of the oceans and creating kinship with this vast blue world, holding sustained space for the arts to create engaging translations of the science, and to consistently support colleagues and communities working on the frontlines of climate, justice, and solutions with the oceans front of mind.
Less than 5% of countries mandate educational curriculum about the oceans, resulting in a serious ocean literacy deficit. The word “ocean” is in the Green New Deal only one time. Despite 40% of the global population living in coastal communities, the oceans are too often an afterthought. We need to equip people to change the conversation around the importance of ocean health in their families, circles, and communities.
Special Thanks
To the Pando Team - Doug, Lyn, Eugene and Betsy
To our partners at the Port of Los Angeles, especially Jenny Krusoe, Terry Tamminen, and Robin Aube
To the CalArts Center for New Performance for supporting this partnership and the XDP Program for supporting the course
To our class guests Dr. Janet Kubler from CSUN and the California Seaweed Festival; Erica Gies, Author of Water is Wise; Sue Butler, the Harvard Divinity School’s Visiting Climate and Morality Scholar, Marcus Miessen for his cheerleading, and to friends at Parley.tv for their great online materials
Contributing Artists
