Greenhouse Green Transitions Fellow Yandong Li presents his project.
In the fall of 2022, University of Stavanger is welcoming 12 guest researchers and artists from across the world to engage with each other and the UiS community in a semester-long exploration of the meanings of green transitions.
In this Greenhouse Green Transitions Lecture, Yandong Li presents the project he is working on during this fellowship in Stavanger.
Yandong is a PhD student at the University of Washington's Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the STSS program. He works at the intersections of media theory, design, material culture, and ecoculture.
In China, the “green revolution” has been closely associated with “red revolution” since 1949. The science and technology of agriculture have always been shaped by socialist values. However, I would like to complicate the existing scholarships on China’s agriculture and the environment by introducing critical thinking on ideas of “environmental management”, “efficiency”, and “automation”. China’s ambitious goal of achieving “carbon neutrality” by 2060 has been accompanied by numerous frictions in its societal practice. Understanding the current and potential problems of “green transition” requires looking back in history. This project will invest in the history of greenhouse design in China and its intersections with media theory and energy humanities.
The lecture will be live streamed on Zoom. Register via Zoom to receive a link. A recording of the lecture with captioning will be available afterwards.