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61,005 resultsShowing papers similar to Vanishing Point Unseen : an art/science collaboration and exhibition on the impact of microplastics in our oceans
ClearRevealing the Invisible: Marine Plastic Waste and its Effects in Science-Inspired Visual Art
This paper explores how science-inspired visual art can make invisible marine plastic pollution perceptible to the public by translating scientific data into aesthetic experiences. The authors argue that artistic visualizations close the perceived distance between everyday life and ocean plastic harm, fostering stronger public engagement with pollution issues.
Eco-Art and Reeling in Anthropogenic Adversity
This paper explores how eco-art practices can raise awareness of anthropogenic pollution, including microplastics, by engaging communities through creative and visual approaches. The authors argue that artistic interventions can complement scientific communication in addressing environmental adversity.
Bridging the gap between microplastic research and social awareness of microplastic pollution through science communication: A call for action
Researchers examined the gap between scientific knowledge of microplastic pollution and public awareness, calling for improved science communication strategies. The study found that despite an enormous body of research documenting microplastics in soil, water, air, and organisms, effective translation of these findings into public understanding and policy action remains inadequate.
The Art of (Up)Recycling: How Plastic Debris Has Become a Matter of Art?
This art and culture paper examines how contemporary artists have used plastic waste as a medium, exploring how art can communicate environmental concerns about plastic pollution to the public. The work documents artistic responses to the global plastic crisis. While not a scientific study, art-based approaches are relevant to raising public awareness about microplastic contamination and motivating behavioral change.
Plastic waste micro-management towards innovative sustainable living in inspiring art practice
This paper is not directly about microplastic science; it describes a participatory art project in a Malaysian village where artists and communities collaborated to manage plastic waste and raise awareness about plastic pollution through sustainable art practices.
Shelly's Visit to Double Island and The Art Gallery
This gallery education resource connects an Australian art exhibition on marine plastic pollution to real-world scientific findings about microplastics in ocean ecosystems. Art exhibitions like this can help translate scientific findings about environmental contamination to broader public audiences.
“The Rejected Remains as Fact”
This paper explores how contemporary artists are responding to the pervasive presence of microplastics and nanoplastics through visual and performative works. Researchers examine how art projects have shifted from environmental alarm toward speculative scenarios of plastic-human coexistence, drawing on the concept of the plastisphere. The study suggests that artistic investigations can reframe our understanding of plastic pollution by exploring cultural and material dimensions beyond purely scientific perspectives.
Plastic pollution and environmental education through artwork
This study explores how upcycling discarded plastics into artwork can serve as a tool for environmental education about plastic pollution. Researchers describe an art installation collaboration that brought together the art world and environmental advocacy to raise public awareness. The study suggests that creative approaches to reusing plastic waste can effectively engage communities in understanding the scale and consequences of plastic pollution.
Making sense of microplastics? Public understandings of plastic pollution
Researchers conducted focus groups to explore public understanding of microplastics and plastic pollution. Most participants were unaware of microplastics, and few connected their personal plastic use to ocean pollution, instead associating the issue with distant images like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The study suggests that the invisible scale of microplastics, limited scientific understanding, and deeply embedded cultural habits around plastic use present significant barriers to behavior change.
From Ocean to Table: How Public Awareness Shapes the Fight Against Microplastic Pollution
This literature review synthesized global studies on public awareness of microplastic pollution, finding that while scientific knowledge has expanded significantly, public understanding and behavioral change remain limited. The study identified effective communication strategies and policy approaches to bridge the gap between scientific evidence and public action.
Understanding microplastics, and visual art as a method of communication: scientific poster versus painting
This study found that over 30% of people preferred a painting over a scientific poster as a way to understand information about microplastics and human health. Visual art may be an effective tool for raising public awareness about the risks of microplastic pollution.
The Persistence of Plastic: Environmental Public Art and Micro-Plastic Pollution
This study explored whether environmental public art about plastic pollution can motivate behavioral change in Australian audiences. Survey responses from art exhibit visitors showed increased concern and pro-environmental intentions, suggesting that arts-based communication strategies can complement scientific messaging in addressing microplastic contamination.
Facilitating Experience through Fabrication and Blue Biophilic Design
This thesis explores design approaches inspired by the natural world to communicate the urgency of ocean pollution and climate change to the public. Effective communication of environmental problems like microplastic contamination is essential for building the public awareness needed to drive behavioral and policy change.
Microplastics Found in Human Embryo
This brief describes an artwork titled 'Microplastics Found in Human Embryo' created to communicate the environmental threat posed by microplastic pollution. The piece uses art to make the invisible visible, helping audiences emotionally engage with scientific findings about microplastic contamination of the human body.
Informing the Public about Microplastics through a University and Museum Partnership
Researchers partnered with a museum to create public exhibits about microplastics, evaluating whether the experience improved visitor knowledge and concern about plastic pollution. The study found that interactive museum exhibits effectively raised public awareness — an important complement to scientific research in motivating behavioral changes to reduce plastic use.
Creating Creative Educational Opportunities among Engineering and Arts Students
This paper is not about microplastics — it describes an educational model that integrates engineering and arts students through design-thinking collaborative projects.
Sensory Virtual Interaction Design Based on the Impact of Microplastics on Ecosystem
Researchers designed a virtual reality interactive experience that communicates the impact of microplastics on ecosystems to audiences. Using immersive virtual environments to convey scientific information about microplastic pollution could improve public understanding and engagement with this environmental issue.
Next steps for research on society and microplastics
This perspective paper assessed the contributions of social and behavioral sciences to microplastics research, covering policy analysis, public education, and stakeholder engagement. The authors argue for greater integration of social science methods to understand and reduce plastic pollution at the human systems level.
The 8th Continent
Not a microplastics paper in the traditional research sense — "The 8th Continent" is a gamified augmented reality art installation designed to raise public awareness about the scale of plastic pollution, using participatory digital storytelling to create community dialogue about the plastic crisis.
Marine microplastic pollution & misinformation in the public sphere: a systematic review
This systematic review examines how scientific findings about marine microplastic pollution are communicated to the public, identifying gaps where misinformation can take hold. Accurate public understanding of microplastic risks matters because it drives consumer choices and policy decisions that affect human health protection.
Défragmenter notre personnalité par le dialogue art-science : pour une co-énonciation écologique, transformative et une éthique joyeuse, allant de soi
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a French-language philosophical essay on personal ecological ethics, proposing that individuals can develop a spontaneous, joyful environmental ethic through inner harmony achieved by integrating scientific and artistic sensibilities.