All Together: Connecting to Place & Cultivating Ecological Citizenship

Abstract

As a new generation of people enter adulthood and the next generation is becoming aware of the world, we have an opportunity to change the way we exist on the planet. This thesis became an opportunity for the artist to take on a didactic and socially engaged project, with the goal of achieving a deeper understanding of ecological citizenship and then sharing that understanding with others. This process took the form of two iterations of a workshop in Alfred, NY, and then of a zine which will be distributed both within and beyond the immediate community.