Sugar vs The Reef: Socially-engaged art and urgent environmental problems

这个项目以甘蔗产业和大堡礁海洋公园之间的交叉点为例，旨在调查社会参与艺术在干预复杂环境管理问题的社会维度方面的有效性。在珊瑚礁集水区内改变农地使用行为的障碍是什么？社会参与艺术如何促进农民、科学家、环保主义者和政策制定者之间的新对话？这些发现如何才能得到更广泛的应用呢？该项目的成果可能有助于改变耕作做法，建立食糖地理产地系统，并加深公众对农业对珊瑚礁的人类影响的认识。

Using the intersection between the sugar cane industry and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park as a case study, this project aims to investigate the effectiveness of socially engaged art in intervening in the social dimensions of a complex environmental management problem. What are the barriers to behavioural change in agricultural land use within reef catchment areas? How can socially engaged art catalyse new dialogue between farmers, scientists, environmentalists and policy makers? And how might these discoveries be more widely applicable? Results of the project may inform transformations in farming practices, the establishment of a geographical provenance system for sugar, and a deeper public awareness of the human impact of agriculture on the reef.