Message in a Bottle

Caleb Hawkins at TEDxURI 2021

Message in a Bottle

Addressing climate change is not just for scientists, engineers, and policy makers. In fact, it can be seen and felt in the work of many different professions, including artists. Caleb Hawkins will show us how art has a role to play in the bigger picture of addressing environmental changes by acting as a means of translation for what nature has to say.

Caleb Hawkins

Architectural Designer

Caleb Hawkins is an architectural designer and visual artist. He is currently in his last year pursuing a Masters of Design Studies Degree in Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he is a researcher at the Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab. He has worked as an architectural designer and fabricator at many award winning architecture firms around Boston and is currently a designer at the artist collective, MASARY Studios. With a belief that art has the power to inspire change, and good design can bring about awareness, his work creates conceptual bridges between ideas, topics, and perceptions seemingly in opposition. He uses the communicative power of art and design to operate as a form of mediation to share understanding, gain understanding, and to question it. His artistic research practice explores the multilayered relationships between technology, personal experience, and architectural space. With his knowledge in design, computation, and programming technologies, he aims to uncover new embodied perceptions and meaning within our built, and natural environment. His creative practice operates through experiments with interactive technologies, custom fabrication techniques, projection mapping and installation art.