Reiko Goto

My subjects of inquiry are living things and natural environments, pursued within a new-genre public art practice. For the last seven years, I have been a research fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. My research is in the areas of social learning and a communicative action approach to planning, and public discourse within the context of a restoration ecology approach to environment. I manage the study of post-industrial urban bio-diversity with a a team of scientists and work with planners and designers to communicate that information in GIS maps, images and written reports. As director of field studies I am familiar with boats, global positioning satellite systems, access database and ESRI-GIS products. I co-teach a class called Green Visions- Grey Infrastructure each year. Beyond the scope of my research, I am invested in life in all its forms. Recent projects explore both Poison Ivy and Japanese Knotweed. I have completed a number of permanent public art projects in Germany and Israel. I have also just finished an article in an edited text by Malcolm Miles “New Practices/New Pedagogies.” I am available for lectures, exhibitions, teaching, and workshops.