2020 Student Awards Update Part 3
Tamalli
Maryangela Sanchez Rocca, Product Design, School of Constructed Environments ‘20
To promote localized production of corn products and furniture in Mexico. I designed a stool for food vendors made from byproducts of corn and meat production with the purpose of replacing the promotional furniture made from plastic offered by companies like Coca-Cola, and eliminating the element of colonization from food and manufacturing. See the full presentation here.
Cede.
Moja Robinson, EPSM Milano ‘21
Despite summer with a global health pandemic and my father's death, I have made tremendous strides in the development of Cede. I have partnered with Byas&Leon, a Blacked owned ethical and sustainable fashion shop based in Brooklyn, on a residency program that teaches local BIPOC communities on the importances of environmentalism and its relationship to the diaspora. I have also partnered with Lot Liberators, a women led gorilla grassroots coalition aiming to convert abandoned NYC lots to healing community spaces. Moreover, I have began a small project titled “The Book Shelf Club”, which will be a social media themed around sharing books and conversations about those books with the Black community. Finally, I have partnered with renowned artists and creative, Joshua Kissi, to be a brand ambassador for Cede. in hopes it will be officially rolling out the 1st semster of 2021. The current back-end logistics for Cede. are finalizing the website, CPG (consumer packaged goods) tiers, a 6-month marketing strategy, and developing the “Ceders”. I would like to personally thank professor Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Anna Yulsman, and the entire Tishman family on guiding me on the way! Thank you for believing in this idea!
Climate Migration, Dispossession, and Persecution: Stories of Guatemalan Asylum Seekers as Environmental and Human Rights Defenders
Mónica Salmón Gómez, Ph.D. student in Sociology, New School for Social Research
Latin America is the most dangerous region in the world for environmental activists and land defenders. According to the international organization, Global Witness in its report Defending Tomorrow. The Climate Crisis and Threats against Land and Environmental Defenders, in 2019 alone, 212 murders of environmental activists and land defenders were registered globally, an average of more than four people a week. Over two-thirds of killing, that is 148 murders, took place in Latin America and 12 in Guatemala. Concerning the number of murders, Guatemala ranks sixth place globally on the most dangerous countries for these defenders, and is the fourth most dangerous country per capita, with Honduras, Colombia, and Nicaragua ranking the first three places. A relevant fact to notice in this report is that the indigenous people are at a disproportionate risk of reprisals and are some of the most at-risk communities across the globe. In Guatemala, the indigenous population constitutes around 40% of its population. READ MORE
Darcy Keester , Mohammad Sial, Vaidehi Supatkar, Raissa Xie, Transdisciplinary Design ‘21
Our climate efforts are doomed by our framing. We instinctively see the crisis as an external problem and call for new materials and methods to imagine all the ways we can shape the world around our lives but we can hardly imagine different ways of living. This project presents problem framing as an essential piece of the solution by exploring how entangled societal factors—politics, economics, culture, etc.—which typically present barriers to change can become the material for experimentation and innovation. We decide to look internally at our values by building a world out of a series of signals that demonstrate how the hierarchy of values has shifted across the nation. A 2031 broadcast from the Global News Network carries the viewer through the journey of two nation-states that have emerged from a tumultuous upheaval of American politics due to the rapid escalation of climate issues paving the way for a “bioborg” in Hawaii named LAKA and “artifactual intelligence” in San Francisco named SAM to make local, administrative decisions based on those values and with a post-post truth era definition of objectivity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nbx24yVIKM&feature=youtu.be