Video by Barron Bixler, Creative Director of Blue Lab
Blue Lab postdoctoral researcher and creative director collaborate on class about water footprints and futures
Announcements • February 29, 2024
Blue Lab member and postdoctoral research associate in the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) Mario Soriano invited lab creative director Barron Bixler to deliver a guest lecture in his class Freshwater Footprints and Futures.
Soriano's interdisciplinary seminar explores freshwater use, its present-day impacts and its future trajectories. Students learn to see interconnections among freshwater resources through diagrams, maps, models and photographs, and to think about the problem of water through conceptual frameworks such as water footprints and planetary boundaries.
Bixler, a social-environmental documentary photographer and designer, has spent a decade working on his project about California's sprawling water system, Watershed: A Speculative Atlas of California. For the class, Bixler created a media-rich presentation that encapsulated aspects of his creative process and documentary work, as well as research and insights about the historical origins and possible futures of California's deepening water crisis.
