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 * CCT333 Tutorial 8: Natalie Jeremijenko and the Art of the Eco-Mindshift**

Bridging the technical and art worlds, Natalie Jeremijenko creates socially conscious experiences that make change, both directly and indirectly. As director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at NYU, she helps prescribe creative health solutions for the environment that are carried out by enthusiastic volunteers.
 * Bio: Natalie Jeremijenko**

As a professor in NYU’s Visual Art Department, she creates and supervises real-life projects for her students like HowStuffIsMade (a website that details how everyday objects are created) and Feral Robots (packs of robot dogs that have been hacked to monitor pollution or even act as breathalyzers).

"By actually taking the opportunity that new technologies, new interactive technologies, present to re-script our interactions, to script them, not just as isolated, individuated interactions, but as collective aggregating actions that can amount to something, we can really begin to address some of our important environmental challenges."

How Stuff Is Made (HSIM) is a visual encyclopedia that documents the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.

View the TED talk by Natalie Jeremijenko, 'The art of the eco-mindshift', at [] and look over her web site "How Stuff is Made' at [|http://howstuffismade.org/]
 * CCT333 Tutorial 8 Video and Web Site References:**

How does the xDesign Environmental Clinic at NYU http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/people/natalie-jeremijenko/ work?
 * In Class Question:**


 * CCT333 Tutorial 8 Questions:**

Describe how Natalie Jeremijenko has based her research on "new technologies are an opportunity for social transformation" to perform "small actions that can amount to a significant effect to improve local environmental health". Tip: Opening up TED's interactive transcript is very helpful to understand her talk and also looking over her web site on the Environmental Health at Clinic at []. (2 paragraphs)

Choose two projects on HowStuffisMade at [] and write about how they are made. (1 paragraph each/2 paragraphs)

Why is it important that we understand how stuff is made as part of our systems analysis and design process? (1 paragraph)


 * Understand and write definitions of the following terms:**

monitoring protocols tadpoles as biosenses endocrine disruptors eco-mindshift "opportunities to intercept pollutants" Environmental Health Clinic (XClinic) "impatients" social transformation