In this seminar, students will be asked to explore how their practices- as artists and designers- can engage issues of land and water justice. Research will happen through local field trips, community willow weaving workshops, readings, conversations with artists and activists, and speculative and creative practices. Some of the questions we will ask in the seminar include: How do our actions and our lives change when we understand land and water as a system of relationships and obligations? How can we, as artists and designers, develop a creative practice that pushes back against the privatization and financialization of land, water and relationships? How can our practices respond to and challenge a singular narrative of progress and development and create hybrid practices that weave tradition with speculative futures? How can critical spatial practice be used to uncover the multiple and complex histories of place, unsettle the comforts of modernity, and contribute to struggles for decolonization and justice? The hope is that this will be a truly multidisciplinary seminar and have students from across all the divisions. Each student will develop a final project that resonates with the seminar’s core themes and is also relevant to their own interests, goals, media and creative practice.