Natalie Jeremijenko
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Natalie Jeremijenko (born 1966) is an artist, engineer, and Associate Professor of art at NYU.
According to Jeremijenko:
Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. Jeremijenko’s projects—which explore socio-technical change—have been exhibited by several museums and galleries, including the MASSMoCA, the Whitney, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt. A 1999 Rockefeller Fellow, she was recently named one of the 40 most influential designers by I.D. Magazine. Jeremijenko is the director of the environmental health clinic at NYU, assistant professor in Art, and affiliated with the Computer Science Dept.
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Environmental Health Clinic
Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Health Clinic at NYU is a mobile lab designed to address the environmental anxieties of visitors.
According to Jeremijenko:
The Environmental Health Clinic at NYU is a clinic and lab, modeled on other health clinics at universities. However the project approaches health from an understanding of its dependence on external local environments; rather than on the internal biology and genetic predispositions of an individual. The clinic works like this: you make an appointment, just like you would at a traditional health clinic, to talk about your particular environmental health concerns. What differs is that you walk out with a prescription not for pharmaceuticals but for actions: local data collection and urban interventions directed at understanding and improving your environmental health; plus referrals, not to medical specialists but to specific art, design and participatory projects, local environmental organizations and local government or civil society groups: organizations that can use the data and actions prescribed as legitimate forms of participation to promote social change.
See also:
- GOOD Magazine: Mad Scientist
- Metacafe Video (GOOD Magazine): Floating Clinic
- NYT: Prescriptions for Health, the Environmental Kind
- YouTube: Environmental Health Clinic - Natalie Jeremijenko in Ghent, Belgium
