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Written by Jennifer October 9th, 2010

Welcome to the online platform of the MA Design and Environment course at Goldsmiths, University of London. Environmental change is [...]

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Welcome to the online platform of the MA Design and Environment course at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Environmental change is now taking place across places and scales, from biodiversity loss to resource shortages and a warming world. Our changing environments are connected to practices and materialities that the MA Design and Environment seeks to study and realign. At the same time, the course understands that environmental practice and awareness share entangled histories, having often led toward a ready tendency to ‘solve problems.’ This course engages with these existing practices and considers how the framing of ‘problems’ and ‘action’ can be a key juncture for rethinking the cause-and-effect of environmental action. The matter of light bulbs is a clear reference point here: is it a matter of switching them off, changing them, or devising experiments to rethink energy generation, use and propagation? In this course, we seek to rethink the framing of environmental issues and possible practices in just this way.

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