Strata #2: ROCK
Event description
- Arts and entertainment
- Free
- Sustainability
Join us for a panel conversation and reception to celebrate the release of the second edition of Strata, a publication from the Desert Humanities Initiative at Arizona State University. This edition focuses on rock and includes contributions from artists, theorists, designers, scientists, and humanists.
About Strata: Strata is an experimental publishing project that brings together thinkers from diverse fields to contribute perspectives that expand our collective notions of our desert co-habitants.
Bios
Silvia Neretti is a designer researcher in the field of Design for Health and Mental Health; She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Design School, Arizona State University. Silvia uses speculative, fictional, and ontological design approaches to explore healing; she approaches mental health as a problem of imagination and more than social justice.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from the Faculty of Design and Arts, Free University of Bolzano, and a Master’s degree in Social Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven. She received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2016 to pursue her Ph.D.
Jennifer Buz is a geologist who specializes in remote sensing which means she tries to do geology from a distance using special instruments like spectral and thermal cameras. Using these devices she can also do geology for other planets.
Fatima Garcia is originally from Hermosillo, Mexico. A town located in the Sonoran Desert. She studied architecture in Tec de Monterrey, graduating in 2004. She has been practicing as an architect in Arizona since 2005.
Luis Cruz-Martinez is originally from Camuy, Puerto Rico. He traded the tropical weather to come to Arizona to do his masters. He obtained his bachelor’s in architecture from the University of Puerto Rico in 1999 and his masters from ASU in 2002 and has been practicing in the state since.
Erika Lynne Hanson is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work is rooted in textile practices. Her projects consider human and more-than-human entanglements in relation to the built environment, climate futures, and economics systems. Hanson is Associate Professor in the School of Art, and Associate Director of the Desert Humanities Initiative at Arizona State University.
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