project spotlight:
As part of our Pacific Northwest Stories of Fire Atlas Project, we're working with the University of Idaho's Prichard Art Gallery to showcase works by visual artists and designers in the online exhibition series, Stories of Fire. These exhibitions highlight the manifold ways artists and designers are marking, mapping, engaging and articulating personal and community experiences of wildfire in the region.
Organized into three parts, GROUND TRUTHS (Spring 2023), FUEL LOADING (Fall 2023) and SIGHTLINES (Winter 2024), each exhibition is loosely framed by a particular disciplinary lens— cartography, fire management and urban planning—and the range of ways artists express and explore parallel concerns.
Our central premise is that the tools of the humanities and arts—especially those related to storytelling, representation, emotions, and communication—are important complements to scientific knowledge and can help develop novel approaches to environmental issues. We use the creativity generated through interdisciplinary and community-based approaches to partner with diverse communities on pragmatic projects that work toward more just, sustainable, and equitable futures, focusing especially on issues such as public land use, wildland fire and fire management, and the causes and effects of climate change.
our primary goal
who we are
The Confluence Lab engages in creative interdisciplinary research projects that bring together scholars in the arts, humanities, and sciences, together with community members, to engage in environmental issues impacting rural communities.
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