Here we feature the work of first-year students – these are the final pieces produced over a semester for subject SP.360 – Terrascope Radio.
Photo Credit: Ari Epstein
Some of the many ways students, scattered around the country and the world, are finding love and support in the midst of isolation.
Image designed by Felix Li ’23
Is it radio drama or real? A story of one college student’s journey through the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of friendship, and picking the right kind of friends.
Some music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Photo credit: Ari W. Epstein
About 30% of residents of the Navajo Nation don’t have running water, and for many of those who do, their water is contaminated with uranium, arsenic or other toxins. As a group of Terrascopers learns, any discussion of water in the Navajo Nation leads to even more complex questions about tradition, change, language and spirituality.
Photo credit: Ari W. Epstein
From artificial beaches maintained by natural ocean currents, to projects that make extra room for rivers flowing through cities, the Dutch know how to protect themselves from water. And each of these systems is also designed to meet other needs of the community it serves. We’re going to need to learn how to do that too.
Television sound from the 1953 flood courtesy of Sound and Vision, via Deltawerken Mediagallery.
Photo credit: Ari W. Epstein
In this personal exploration with radio-drama elements, Terrascopers try to understand how such an enormous city, with such a large population and so many unresolved issues, still manages to work so well. The answers lie both in the city’s ancient roots and in the ingenuity of its modern-day population.
Photo credit: Ari Epstein
An engaging and informative look at farmers in a desert landscape, and at how their individual farming styles reflect their personal values. Explores modern industrial farming, centuries-old collective water-distribution organizations, ancient Navajo corn customs and semi-urban organic farming.
