Archive — April 2016 to April 2017
Conversations for Miami's Future
Nature + Coast
Mangroves, water, and a city at the edge
Biscayne Bay frames the crisis through ecology, shoreline memory, and Miami futures.
Cities in Crisis
Urban resilience under heat and rising seas
The series asks how culture, planning, and public memory respond when cities are stressed.
Ecohumanities
Maps, stories, archives, and ecological change
Humanities methods bring testimony, language, and historical memory into climate work.
Public Action
Workshops for shared civic imagination
Events connected museums, gardens, schools, and residents around climate and community life.
About the project
A public event series exploring climate change through the lens of culture, history, and community — across the museums, gardens, and neighborhoods of Greater Miami.
Public Events
April 2016 → May 2017
Open to the Public
Major Grant Funded
Ecohumanities for Cities in Crisis
APRIL – OCTOBER 2016
All events free and open to the public
Explore the challenges Miami faces from climate change through culture and history.Join nationally recognized scholars and local environmentalists for stories about our connections to this unique and fragile landscape. How can we come together to imagine our future and prioritize what is most valuable, just, and worthy of preservation?
Organized by the Department of History of the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs at Florida International University — in collaboration with HistoryMiami Museum, The Kampong, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the FIU Green Library Digital Collections Center, and Catalyst Miami.
Acknowledgements
Organized by
Florida International University
Made possible in part by a major grant from
National Endowment for the Humanities (50 Years of Excellence)
Past events
April 2016 through May 2017 — symposia, workshops, and dialogues across Greater Miami's museums, gardens, and cultural venues.
Symposium As residents of South Florida, many of us are acutely aware of the tenuous balance between the forces of nature and human genius. Vulnerability to natural disaster has left its imprint on our fragile landscape and its inhabitants. As we respond to our changing climate and…
Community Conversation A Lecture and Community Conversation at the Historic Hampton House
Gallery Talk Many Miami homes have mango trees in their yards, a legacy of past agricultural development, housing promoters’ efforts to create a tropical paradise, and global plant exploration spearheaded by people like David Fairchild, whose home is preserved as The Kampong. Everyone has a…
Gallery Talk Tony Garnier's *Une Cit├⌐ Industrielle* (1904–17) is one of the most remarkable attempts to reimagine the modern city. A prominent French architect, Garnier spent more than a decade devising and illustrating in exquisite detail a plan for an urban environment that would foster…
Dialogue ***lex┬╖i┬╖con n.**** A list of words relevant to a specific situation or shared by a group of people; a special vocabulary* How can words describe the experience of living in a time of environmental crisis? How can we describe our feelings as the seas rise around us and we are…
Symposium Participate with nationally-recognized humanities scholars in a discussion of cultural responses to natural disaster and environmental change. **Free and open to the public, but registration is required at:…
Dialogue Discuss art and technology in Miami with creative technologists Kevin Arrow and Barron Sherer, co-founders of the picture and film archive Obsolete Media Miami, and Willie Avendano, co-founder of Wynwood education lab 01. Arrow, Sherer, and Avendano will present new ways to…
Dialogue A Dialogue on Culture, Politics, and Water in the Everglades at Vizcaya Village Garage
Workshop The Eco-Theater Lab is a creative workshop for artists, environmental experts, and everybody else to confront pressing questions about humanity's relationship to our planet through the lens of theater. These labs offer participants a creative way to grapple with real and…
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