By Michael David The research was done as part of ENVS 6128, Urban Transportation Planning in the Winter 2023 semester. Dr. Mahtot Gebresselassie was the course director. The aim of the study was to examine disability accessibility on York University's Keele Campus. This summary highlights some of our findings. Our group focused on safety and […]
Room HNES 283, Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies Building, York University An art space on the second floor of HNES. With a vision of being an initiative for radical movements and an inspiration for a new generation of environmental activists, the gallery is open to all artists in the field who would like to showcase their […]
Curator: Theo Fox This series, compromised of clipping from “J.K. Rowling Writes abiyt Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issus” and Chapter 18 of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, is a radical form of erasure poetry in which the rest of the page is discarded entirely, allowing for subsequent decontextualization […]
Curator: Tamara Frooman Self-Portrait in F Major is a series of Frankensteinesque self-portraits created out of selfies taken over the past decade, rotated and overlapped to produce a layered effect that represents the constant struggle to conceptualize a stable and coherent self, despite external intactness. The portraits juxtapose the sense of fragmentation that arises from […]
Curator: Olivia De Sanctis The Value Village Poems are a series which combines found materials collected from several visits to the same Value Village location. Their title suggests a practice of hunting or searching for hand-me-down objects, but it also implies a practice of consumerism. Here the found texts and images are not purchased but […]
Curator: Asa Brunet-Jaily “Notes from the Land of The Commuter” is an ever-expanding project if geolocation and site-specific petry. For this series, I allowed the world around me, the world that plagues every walking hour of my days in this city, to engulf me. I opened myself up to the voices of my environment, to […]
Curator: Nashwa Lina Khan This piece takes from archival images of Bousbir - what was essentially a sex prison in Morocco during colonial occupation and news articles from the present about an ‘uncolonized’ Morocco The role of Moroccan women in the world is one that I explore throughout these pieces and my larger body […]
Named in memory of dian marino: artist, activist, educator and former EUC faculty member, and with a dedication to a sustainable future and a strong belief in the transformative power of arts, Wild Garden Media Center is an environmental initiative where art is a catalyst for ecological change. In order to do so, we proudly […]
This year’s festival, titled “MENDING,” will examine how art and art-making can be a catalyst to repairing relationships with the self, with others and with the world around us. MENDING encourages attendees to explore ways in which repairing those relationships can foster a more sustainable and just approach to tackling the environmental crises, systemic challenges […]
Welcome to the June 2023 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research activities at York's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our past updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Calvin Lakhan on circular economy (and why the war on plastics may be misguided). […]