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Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future

Artists supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities created tools for navigating unpredictable ecological challenges, then brought them to life in a series of public workshops at the Independence Seaport Museum.
Seven people around a table in a lab.
As part of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities’ Ecotopian Toolkit Project, a “kitbashing” workshop held at the Independence Seaport Museum gave museum visitors an opportunity to imagine and then build structures for a future of higher sea levels and disrupted ecosystems. Juan Hurtado Salazar (standing, in black shirt) was one of five artists and makers supported by the initiative. Among the workshop’s participants was PPEH Founding Director Bethany Wiggin (seated, far right).

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