We are experiencing the ramifications of living in an industrialized age marked by short-term thinking. The impact of global climate change and air and water pollution has reached all corners of the Earth. News of climate change impact can be overwhelming, but according to the 2021 IPCC Climate Change Report, there is still time to get the planet back into a proper alignment! For that to happen, we all need to investigate our relationship to the environment and consider ways to make a difference. 

In this studio, you are going to think about the problem of ocean pollution, and design a device to address that threat. Thinking about different aspects of this issue, and considering different scales of trash in the ocean, impacts on marine life, end life of the trash collected.