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WIN BIOLOGIST
Once upon a Coastline workshop
30 September 2022, Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
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Emerging islands, Jonathan Jay Lee, Shin Sirachai, and I organized a workshop entitled "Once upon a Coastline" to teach the public about how anthropogenic disturbances can tremendously affect marine coastal ecosystems. This workshop is a collaborative work between marine biologists (Shin and I), artists (Jonathan), and storytellers (Emerging islands). We create an educational interactive application that allows users to learn about the impact of urbanization, over-tourism, and overexploitation on the marine ecosystems. Read news about this workshop by National Geographic Thailand here (in Thai)
At first, Shin and I teach participants about marine ecosystem in Thailand.
Then, the emerging islands, who plan for the event, explain about the workshop and case study about anthropogenic disturbances on marine ecosystem.
Jonathan, an award-winning illustrator based in Hong Kong, explains the application he designed for this activity.
The participants start to play around with the application under the supervision of marine biologists and the emerging islands. Basically, we let them create the pristine marine ecosystem, construct man-made structures based on each case study, and finally solve the problems humans (they) made.
Finally, the participants present their own work to the public. This includes what part of the marine ecosystem they destroyed and how did they do to recover from the disturbances they made. See the example of the participant work in the video below.
Thank you, National Geographic Thailand and Maria, for the help in organizing this workshop, and thanks to Shin, Jon, Sam, David, and Nicola for inviting me to join this fun and impactful workshop. It is very nice and memorable for me to work with you all!
Photos courtesy of NatGeo Thailand
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