FUSE : Conversations / Natalie Jeremijenko

Jeremijenko directs the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic. The Environmental Health Clinic develops and prescribes locally optimized and often playful strategies to effect remediation of environmental systems, producing measurable and mediagenic evidence and coordinating diverse projects to effective material change. Her work is described as experimental design, as it explores opportunities presented by new technologies for non-violent social change. Her research centers on structures of participation in the production of knowledge and information, and the political and social possibilities (and limitations) of information and emerging technologies -- mostly through public experiments. In this vein, her work spans a range of media from statistical indices to biological substrates to robotics. http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/