Workshops
In our workshops, we introduce our Sunk Shore methodology and invite participants to explore their local shorelines. We lead thought and artistic exercises, discuss climate change data and local knowledge, and find playful ways to create an embodied experience where participants find their own ways of expressing what a climate-changed future will look and feel like. With the workshops we aim to inspire and encourage participants to dream up their own speculative futures based on historical data, climate change predictions, their deep knowledge of their own shorelines and spaces, using their expectations, fears, and hopes for the future of the waterways to inform the work they build.
The Sunk Shore method has four key ingredients:
- Make it local
- Make it active
- Engage the Imagination
- Make it Fun!
Different workshop formats
Introductory Workshop
Typically a two to four hour workshop, the Introductory Sunk Shore Workshop guides participants through the methodology we use to create our engagements. This experience includes discussions about site-specific local knowledge and climate change data, the science behind how we learn and retain information, and sharing the key ingredients to every Sunk Shore project, including sensory water memory and future exercises, collective art-making, and envisioning versions of a climate-changed future.Two-day Workshop
The first day of our two-day Sunk Shore workshop is similar to the Introductory Workshop; participants share knowledge about local shorelines, discuss climate change data, and dream up possible futures. We lead participants in group art-making, sensory envisioning, and ideation. On the second day we visit a local shoreline or site impacted by climate change. There, we apply the concepts and art-making approaches from the first day to creating speculative future experiences specific to the site and to the participants’ visions.Class Workshops and Lectures
We offer a variety of Sunk Shore workshops and experiences to align with formal (e.g. university) and informal (e.g. community center) class structures. These can take place inside a classroom or outside on existing or historical shorelines. The workshops can include slide presentations about Sunk Shore and our methodology, participatory sensory exercises that focus on the water and the future, collage making, discussions on the use of art to communicate scientific data, or site-specific walks that engage with the environment. Workshops, Classes, and Lectures
Ridge Center for Older Adults collage workshop: Bay Ridge Shore 2100
Bazaar Festival lecture-demonstration, Prague, Czech Republic: Sunk Shore: Embodying ecosystems and climate change futures
American Fisheries Society lecture: Sunk Shore: Climate change data communication through art and embodiment
NYU “Walking the Edge” site-specific class: Introduction to Sunk Shore, East River, NYC
Pew Climate Lunch lecture: Creative Communication: Art + Science + Public Engagement
Genspace two-day Teen Leaders workshop: Introduction to Sunk Shore, Bush Terminal Park, NYC
RiSC (Resilient Schools and Communities) educators workshop, 2022: Sea Level Rise: Public Art and Engagement
NYU “Walking the Edge” site-specific class: Introduction to Sunk Shore, East River, NYC
Suffolk County Community College Environmental Science Club lecture: Creative Communication: Art + Science + Public Engagement
ICRSME (International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education) conference lecture: Sunk Shore: Exploring the public’s relationship to data through climate science
NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Studies workshop: Humanizing Data
The New School, Sustainable Systems class: Introduction to Sunk Shore