Project name |
X Clinic - the environmental health clinic + lab |
Organisation |
NYU |
Persons |
Nat Jeremijenko |
City |
New York |
Country |
EEUU |
Period |
2007 |
URL |
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/ |
Tags |
art,
lab,
activism,
environment,
artist,
research,
sustainability,
science,
technology,
clinic,
design,
|
Text |
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. |