Dynamic Deserts: Resource Uncertainty in Arid Environments
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PhotoGraphy: visualizing pattern and process
As part of the workshop, we have planned a session to discuss pairing photographic art with research results and the potential implications for scientific literacy in the public. The focus will be "ways of seeing pattern and process" and involve leading photographers, scientists and outreach coordinators. The purpose of this meeting is to share photographs of natural and social systems along with tables, graphs and other figures from research. Photographs included in the workshop will draw from the Phoenix Transect Project organized by an art professor at Arizona State University as well other work under the theme "pattern and process". Leading up to this discussion, we hope you will submit tables, figures, to share recent findings with landscape photography and the Phoenix Transect Project photographers to inspire develop pieces for discussion. This will serve as inspiration for open and continuous dialog between scientists and artists about ways to develop a) new interpretive frames for completed work and b) new work. We plan to podcast the workshop session and display copies of art, tables, and figures involved in the development phase of the project on the internet after the conference.
Linking the arts and science creates opportunities for dialog between people who view patterns and processes in the same spaces through very different lenses. For scientists, it is a chance to pursue connections between projects whose interrelatedness is reinterpreted through photography. We eventually hope to use this discussion to develop two events that use art to communicate scientific results to broad audiences:
- a photography exhibit linking photographs taken in metropolitan Phoenix to results relating to the social and ecological processes of the city
- a web display of the exhibit and the process of creating the exhibit.