A visual ecologist, a thoughtful vegan and a Climate for Change facilitator.

Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 208 on 94.7 The Pulse on 21 March 2018:

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In this hour:

• Aviva Reed, visual ecologist, artist and book publisher, Biotic Potential

• Meg Odgers, blogger, lecturer and Thoughtful Vegan who co-founded Towards Zero Waste Geelong

• Tony Gleeson, Climate for Change facilitator and Sustainable Stand Up’er

• Kimchi, the new single from Formidable Vegetable Sound System

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“I have studied and taught environmental science in 15 years. It is not an exciting subject, it is tragic. Most of my lecturers have cried in their lectures. So you do need to find a way through, and I guess that is art – art is useful for me in that way.

I have been in class rooms – I teach adults and children – where there is a lot of grief. I just try and create an activity that is a proactive or productive activity. And that might be making art works for politicians. Or it might be doing a large collaborative drawing of a coral reef…”

~ Aviva Reed

Aviva Reed: Reframing the paradigme with ecological storytelling

Could we use art and ‘ecological imagination’ to communicate complex scientific ideas and to unravel some of the perceived truths and invisible realities that shape the modern age?

Aviva Reed already does it. She is a ‘visual ecologist’ and the creative director at Oekologie Studio, an art/science studio which develops resources for training sessions.

Its first publication in 2017, ‘Eon – the Story of the Fossils’, explores what we can learn from billions of years of being part of an evolving ecosystem.  

Oekologie Studio uses the Biotic Potential methodology, a technique that incorporates art making, storytelling and educational theories to explore complexity to create experiences and training in the ecologies. The creative, interdisciplinary practice explores scientific theories from both philosophical and ontological perspectives.

Aviva Reed has a Master of Environment and teaches within tertiary, community and organisational environments. With combined concepts of arts-based pedagogy and ecological thinking, her training seeks to unravel complex ideas around human/nature divides and inspire participants to engage in creative critical thinking.

Her most recent exhibition in Melbourne was ‘HYDRO/LOGIC’ at Li...