SEJ students enjoy “World of Matter” exhibit

This week Professor Milena Popov and her students in the Introduction to Sustainability Studies (SUS 299) class enjoyed exploring the exhibit World of Matter at the James Gallery of the CUNY Graduate Center.  Ms. Jennifer Wilkinson, Gallery Exhibitions Coordinator, greeted the group and Ms. Katherine Carl, Gallery Exhibit Curator and Director of the Center for the Humanities, introduced the exhibition and answered questions.

The multi-media exhibition can be viewed at the Graduate Center through November 1, 2014.  According to the exhibition’s website:

The world we inhabit is expanding. Global population growth, increased mobility, accelerated contacts, rising levels of production and consumption, and the expansion of natural resource extraction have had a significant impact in environmental, social and psychological terms. What forms of interaction with the material world acknowledge that there are limits to what we, as humans, might know and control?

Participants in World of Matter draw upon methodologies from the social and natural sciences, journalism, and also poetics and aesthetics, to scrutinize zones of geopolitical-ecological upheaval. The research conducted by the artists, journalists and theorists in World of Matter coheres around a sensitive reconsideration of the planet’s “resources.”