This undergraduate seminar introduces students to the dynamic field of ecological art, highlighting its potential to reveal critical environmental issues and inspire artistic engagement. The course explores how artistic practices can address complex sociocultural themes such as climate change, environmental justice, and pollution, through the study of both established and emerging eco-artists.
A central focus of the course is to make ecological art accessible by guiding students through fundamental, embodied practices. Students will explore the role of materials in the creative process, engaging with the relationships between mind and body, the organic and inorganic, and the broader ecological and political spheres.
Crucially, the course incorporates site-based exploration of the diverse ecologies of the Tunghai University campus, aligning each weekly workshop with opportunities to observe, engage with, and respond to the surrounding environment. Through these explorations, students will embark on a process of discovering the vital connections between themselves and the living dynamics of the place they inhabit.
Structured around progressive weekly sessions, the course emphasizes tactile, site-responsive workshops that encourage students to deepen both their ecological understanding and personal relationships to place. By engaging directly with materials and the campus’s living ecologies, students will cultivate self-awareness, ecological consciousness, and an ethically grounded artistic practice.

This undergraduate seminar introduces students to the dynamic field of ecological art, highlighting its potential to reveal critical environmental issues and inspire artistic engagement. The course explores how artistic practices can address complex sociocultural themes such as climate change, environmental justice, and pollution, through the study of both established and emerging eco-artists.
A central focus of the course is to make ecological art accessible by guiding students through fundamental, embodied practices. Students will explore the role of materials in the creative process, engaging with the relationships between mind and body, the organic and inorganic, and the broader ecological and political spheres.
Crucially, the course incorporates site-based exploration of the diverse ecologies of the Tunghai University campus, aligning each weekly workshop with opportunities to observe, engage with, and respond to the surrounding environment. Through these explorations, students will embark on a process of discovering the vital connections between themselves and the living dynamics of the place they inhabit.
Structured around progressive weekly sessions, the course emphasizes tactile, site-responsive workshops that encourage students to deepen both their ecological understanding and personal relationships to place. By engaging directly with materials and the campus’s living ecologies, students will cultivate self-awareness, ecological consciousness, and an ethically grounded artistic practice.

Ardenne, P. (2019). Un art écologique: Création plasticienne et anthropocène - nouvelle édition. BORD DE L'EAU, Paris.
Bourriaud, N. (2002). Relational aesthetics. Les presses du réel, Dijon.
Guattari, F. (2000). The three ecologies. The Athlone Press, London.
Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, Durham.
Latour, B. (2017). Face of Gaia: A New Quest for Survival. Polity Press, Cambridge.
Maja, L., & Reuben, M. (2022). Art and climate change. Thames & Hudson, London.

Ardenne, P. (2019). Unart écologique: Creation plasticienne et anthropocène - nouvelle édition. BORD DE L'EAU, Paris.
Bourriaud, N. (2002). Relational aesthetics. Les presses du réel, Dijon.
Guattari, F. (2000). The three ecologies. The Athlone Press, London.
Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, Durham.
Latour, B. (2017). Face of Gaia: A New Quest for Survival. Polity Press, Cambridge.
Maja, L., & Reuben, M. (2022). Art and climate change. Thames & Hudson, London.