I went to the Casuality Is Broken: Can We Fix It with Art & Design where Dr. Pinar Yoldas presented many different concepts and interesting facts. Her key concept that she continuosly mentions was this idea of "anthropocene" introduced by Dr. Paul J Crutzen that proposed a new era when human actions have a drastic effect on the Earth. She further went on to talk about sense and perception. She compared both. a human and then a tic. She asked, "How many senses does it take for a tic to use it senses and then the same for a human." It takes a tic 1 to detect heat / temperature, 1 for smell, & 1 for motion. On the other hand humans have more senses to satisfy.. temperature, pressure, sight , hear, taste, & the list goes on. All this to say humans have a much richer life compared to a tic.
Yoldas then goes to say things fall beyond our umwelt, how one senses the world around. themselves, such as climate change, gravitational waves, infrared light, pesticides, etc and it all becomes imperceptible. She now finally ties everything to casuality. She explains how imperceptibility breaks causality with this idea: Plastic bottle —> mass consumption —> waste accumulation. Overtime —> pelagic plastics —>dead albatross chick. What she means when she says that is as humans we're living in this bubble where we don't make. a connection to how our actions affect the world using the phrase "out of sight out of mind". Now you may ask.. so. how can we. bring the imperceptible back to our umwlet? Well we would have to design of a new culture that is : non violent, biopholic, and inclusive. After this she goes into a couple projects of hers that deomonstrate this. 
Her first introduced idea was Hot Yoga. She began thinking of this idea due to the Polar Bear ad campaign showing how it once. went from happy healthy Polar Bears to sick about to die Polar Bears.So she decided to design a yoga stage that says global warming and produces heat, one would participate for 25 mins - 1 hour. The instuctor would have a prewritten script and this would be a collective sweating experience. This ties into our class on the topic of Neuroscience and Art coexisiting. Neuroscience is displayed by increasing the learning by involve art and the body in a form of yoga.
Another project she had was her Silent Spring Dining Event. Here she introduced the "dirty dozen" , which were the top produce with the most pesticides: including strawberries, spinach, nectarines, apples, peaches, pears, cherries, grapes, celery, tomatoes, sweet bell peppers, and potatoes. Yoldas invited local organic farmers, a restauranteur,scholars, environmentalist, senators, and. the governor for a performative dinner table discussion, at the U-M Museum of Natural Histor. The whole event the meals were cooked with only the dirty dozen so she can prove her point.
Finally the last project she discussed was her idea of an ecosystem of excess where she created the Plastoceptor and Stomaximus. This site that displays plastic waste on a global scale. She really became interested in the waste and was intrested by a. statement made by an environmental activist and discoverer of the Trash Vortex Captain, Charles Moore, who stated, ‘the ocean has turned into a plastic soup.’This project introduces pelagic insects, marine reptilia, fish and birds endowed with organs to sense and metabolize plastics as a new Linnean order of post-human life forms. This was inspired by many things including the groundbreaking findings of new bacteria that burrow into pelagic plastics. She specificaly mentioned in her presentation her creation of the Plastoceptor which is an organ to sense plastics and the Stomaximus which is a digestive organ for the plastivore.
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“Visualizing Science: Pinar Yoldas' Silent Spring | Stories | Creative Work.” Visualizing Science: Pinar Yoldas' Silent Spring | Stories | Creative Work | Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, stamps.umich.edu/creative-work/stories/silent-spring.
“Ecosystem of Excess, 2014.” Pinar Yoldas, pinaryoldas.info/Ecosystem-of-Excess-2014.
“Global Warming Hot Yoga Studio, 2016.” Pinar Yoldas, pinaryoldas.info/Global-Warming-Hot-Yoga-Studio-2016.
“Pinar Yoldas.” Pinar Yoldas, pinaryoldas.info/PINAR-YOLDAS.
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“Visualizing Science: Pinar Yoldas' Silent Spring | Stories | Creative Work.” Visualizing Science: Pinar Yoldas' Silent Spring | Stories | Creative Work | Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, stamps.umich.edu/creative-work/stories/silent-spring.
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